The new strategy is to do a three phase migration. This is the first phase: getting the namespace user in the db and written for all new repositories.

test/test_api_security.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ from urllib import urlencode
 from urlparse import urlparse, urlunparse, parse_qs
 
 from app import app
+from data import model
 from initdb import setup_database_for_testing, finished_database_for_testing
 from endpoints.api import api_bp, api
 
@@ -75,7 +76,8 @@ class ApiTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
 
       with client.session_transaction() as sess:
         if auth_username:
-          sess['user_id'] = auth_username
+          loaded = model.get_user(auth_username)
+          sess['user_id'] = loaded.id
         sess[CSRF_TOKEN_KEY] = CSRF_TOKEN
 
       # Restore the teardown functions