fix/slow_pythonapi_tests

src/server/oasisapi/hashers.py

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+from django.contrib.auth.hashers import PBKDF2PasswordHasher
+
+
+class FastPBKDF2PasswordHasher(PBKDF2PasswordHasher):
+    # Django 3.2 had a count of ~260,000 by default, which was upped to 870,000 for Django 5.1.
+    iterations = 260000

src/server/oasisapi/settings/base.py

@@ -35,13 +35,18 @@
 IS_TESTSERVER = len(sys.argv) >= 2 and sys.argv[1] == 'runserver'
 IS_SWAGGER_GEN = len(sys.argv) >= 2 and sys.argv[1] == 'generate_swagger'
 
+
 if IS_UNITTEST or IS_TESTSERVER:
     # Always set Debug mode when in dev environment
     MEDIA_ROOT = './shared-fs/'
     DEBUG = True
     DEBUG_TOOLBAR = True
     URL_SUB_PATH = False
     CONSOLE_DEBUG = True  # disable celery / db checks in health check
+    # Adds custom password hasher as Django 5 has >3x default iterations compared to Django 3, which slows down existing test cases signficantly
+    PASSWORD_HASHERS = [
+        'src.server.oasisapi.hashers.FastPBKDF2PasswordHasher',
+    ]
 else:
     # SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
     MEDIA_ROOT = iniconf.settings.get('server', 'media_root', fallback=os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media'))