feat(list users): user should be able to see the the list and profile…

…s of existing authors

- a logged in user should  be able to see the  existing users profiles

[Delivers #161966619]

authors/apps/profiles/tests/test_view_all_profiles.py

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+from authors.base_file import BaseTestCase
+from django.urls import reverse
+from rest_framework import status
+from ..models import Profile
+
+class TestProfile(BaseTestCase):
+    """test the user profile"""
+
+    def login_user(self):
+        """function to login the user"""
+        response = self.client.post(self.login_url, self.login_data, format='json')
+        return response.data['token']
+
+    def register_user(self):
+        """function to register a new user"""
+        response = self.client.post(self.register_url, self.register_data, format='json')
+        return response
+
+    def test_get_all_authors(self):
+        """test getting all authors"""
+        self.register_user()
+        token = self.login_user()
+        response = self.client.get(self.user_author, format='json', HTTP_AUTHORIZATION='Token ' +token)
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, status.HTTP_200_OK)
+
+
+    def test_get_specific_authors_profile(self):
+        """test viewing a specific author's profile"""
+        self.register_user()
+        token = self.login_user()
+        response = self.client.get(reverse("profiles:profile", kwargs={
+            'username':self.register_data['user']['username'],
+        }), format='json', HTTP_AUTHORIZATION='Token ' +token)
+        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, status.HTTP_200_OK)

authors/apps/profiles/urls.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from django.urls import path
-from .views import RetrieveProfileAPIView
+from .views import RetrieveProfileAPIView, RetrieveAuthorsAPIView
 
 urlpatterns = [
-    path('profiles/<username>/', RetrieveProfileAPIView.as_view(), name='profile')
+    path('profiles/<username>/', RetrieveProfileAPIView.as_view(), name='profile'),
+    path('authors/', RetrieveAuthorsAPIView.as_view(), name='authors')
 ]

authors/apps/profiles/views.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 from rest_framework import status
 from rest_framework.response import Response
 from rest_framework.permissions import IsAuthenticated
-from rest_framework.generics import RetrieveAPIView
+from rest_framework.generics import RetrieveAPIView, ListAPIView
 from .models import Profile
 from .serializers import ProfileSerializer
 from .exceptions import ProfileNotFound
@@ -23,4 +23,11 @@ def retrieve(self, request, username, *args, **kwargs):
         serializer = self.serializer_class(profile)
         return Response({
             'profile': serializer.data
-        }, status = status.HTTP_200_OK)
+        }, status = status.HTTP_200_OK)
+
+
+class RetrieveAuthorsAPIView(ListAPIView):
+    """retrieve all authors"""
+    permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated,)
+    queryset =  Profile.objects.all()
+    serializer_class = ProfileSerializer

authors/base_file.py

@@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ def setUp(self):
         response = self.client.post(self.login_url, self.login_data, format='json')
         self.token = "dummytokenhere"
         self.user_url = reverse('authentication:user-retrieve-profile')
+        self.user_author = reverse('profiles:authors')