From 0fd22addf3581d94ff35ca494a55fd5b75d185a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: piekstra <piekstra@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2026 17:55:52 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix AttributeError when creating TPLinkDeviceManager without
 credentials

Initialize _auth_token to None in __init__ to prevent AttributeError
when accessing the attribute before login() is called.

This allows users to create a TPLinkDeviceManager without credentials
and set the auth token later via set_auth_token(), which is useful for
caching tokens to avoid API rate limits.

Fixes #75
---
 tests/test_device_manager.py  | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 tplinkcloud/device_manager.py |  1 +
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tests/test_device_manager.py b/tests/test_device_manager.py
index 7461a3d..725e107 100644
--- a/tests/test_device_manager.py
+++ b/tests/test_device_manager.py
@@ -216,6 +216,26 @@ async def test_auth_no_username_or_password(self, client):
         )
         assert device_manager is not None
 
+    @pytest.mark.asyncio
+    async def test_auth_token_initialized_without_credentials(self, client):
+        # Regression test for issue #75
+        # When creating a device manager without credentials, _auth_token should
+        # still be initialized to None to avoid AttributeError
+        device_manager = TPLinkDeviceManager(
+            username=None,
+            password=None,
+            prefetch=True,  # This is the default that triggered the bug
+            cache_devices=True,
+            tplink_cloud_api_host=os.environ.get('TPLINK_KASA_API_URL'),
+            verbose=False,
+            term_id=os.environ.get('TPLINK_KASA_TERM_ID')
+        )
+        # Should be able to access _auth_token without AttributeError
+        assert device_manager._auth_token is None
+        # Should be able to set auth token manually
+        device_manager.set_auth_token('test_token')
+        assert device_manager._auth_token == 'test_token'
+
     @pytest.mark.asyncio
     async def test_auth_no_username(self, client):
         with pytest.raises(ValueError):
diff --git a/tplinkcloud/device_manager.py b/tplinkcloud/device_manager.py
index faaec01..80e49a9 100644
--- a/tplinkcloud/device_manager.py
+++ b/tplinkcloud/device_manager.py
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ def __init__(
         self._cache_devices = cache_devices
         self._cached_devices = None
         self._term_id = term_id
+        self._auth_token = None
 
         self._tplink_api = TPLinkApi(
             tplink_cloud_api_host, verbose=self._verbose, term_id=self._term_id)