#23773: Client().post("/someurl",data="", content_type='text/plain') results in
request.body = {}
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Reporter: isparks | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: HTTP handling | Version: 1.7
Severity: Normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Unreviewed
Has patch: 0 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by bmispelon):
* needs_better_patch: => 0
* needs_tests: => 0
* needs_docs: => 0
Old description:
> If you want to access request.body in a handler function to get the raw
> posted data and the value posted was the empty string "" with a content
> type of text/plain then what appears in request.body is a string
> representing an empty dictionary {} due to this line in client.py in the
> RequestFactory class.
>
> def post(self, path, data=None, content_type=MULTIPART_CONTENT,
> secure=False, **extra):
> "Construct a POST request."
>
> post_data = self._encode_data(data or {}, content_type) # <--
> Problem line
>
> Here data is replaced with a dictionary before being passed to encoding
> but what I would expect to end up in request.body is the original empty
> string for a text/plain request.
New description:
If you want to access request.body in a handler function to get the raw
posted data and the value posted was the empty string `""` with a content
type of text/plain then what appears in request.body is a string
representing an empty dictionary `{}` due to this line in client.py in the
RequestFactory class.
{{{#!python
def post(self, path, data=None, content_type=MULTIPART_CONTENT,
secure=False, **extra):
"Construct a POST request."
post_data = self._encode_data(data or {}, content_type) # <-- Problem
line
}}}
Here data is replaced with a dictionary before being passed to encoding
but what I would expect to end up in request.body is the original empty
string for a text/plain request.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/23773#comment:1>
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