ignore captcha errors during a test

captcha/test_helper.py

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+from captcha.conf import settings as captcha_settings
+from django.test.utils import TestContextDecorator
+
+class ignore_captcha_errors(TestContextDecorator):
+  """provides a class decorator/context manager to ignore captcha errors during a test.
+  To be used as:
+  from captcha.test_helper import ignore_captcha_errors
+  class TestSomething(SimpleTestCase):
+    @ignore_captcha_errors()
+    def test_something(self):
+       response  = self.client.post(my_url, {... 'captcha_0': 'whatever', 'captcha_1': 'passed'}, follow=True)
+
+   or
+
+   from captcha.test_helper import ignore_captcha_errors
+   class TestSomething(SimpleTestCase):
+
+     def test_something(self):
+       with ignore_captcha_errors():
+         response  = self.client.post(my_url, {... 'captcha_0': 'whatever', 'captcha_1': 'passed'}, follow=True)
+  """
+  def __init__(self):
+		super().__init__()
+		self.captcha_test_mode = captcha_settings.CAPTCHA_TEST_MODE
+
+	def enable(self):
+		captcha_settings.CAPTCHA_TEST_MODE = True
+
+	def disable(self):
+		captcha_settings.CAPTCHA_TEST_MODE = self.captcha_test_mode
+
+	def decorate_class(self, cls):
+		from django.test import SimpleTestCase
+		if not issubclass(cls, SimpleTestCase):
+			raise ValueError(
+				"Only subclasses of Django SimpleTestCase can be decorated "
+				"with ignore_captcha_errors"
+			)
+		self.captcha_test_mode = captcha_settings.CAPTCHA_TEST_MODE
+		return cls