Opened 10 years ago
Closed 10 years ago
#23772 closed Bug (duplicate)
Client().post("/someurl",data="", content_type='text/plain') results in request.body = {}
Reported by: | Ian Sparks | Owned by: | nobody |
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Component: | HTTP handling | Version: | 1.7 |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | |
Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
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.
if data is then data becomes an empty string.
Duplicate of #23773.