Setting to allow django.test.Client default requests to follow=True

[Adam]

There should be a way to allow the django.test.Client to default its requests to follow=True instead of having to mark it in each request. Something in settings TEST_AUTO_FOLLOW = True would trigger it as an opt-in setting.

[Simon Charette]

I'm not sure this use case is common enough to add yet another setting.

What about subclassing django.test.Client and using the TestCase.client_class attribute instead?

[Adam]

That's what I had tried before realizing that it wasn't a property on the Client but rather the requests issued by the Client (.get(), .post(), etc)

[Tim Graham]

I agree we shouldn't add a setting. What we could do a default_follow class attribute to Client which would default to "unset" (e.g. None). Then we'd also change the default of follow on the request method to None and have them use follow if follow is not None else self.default_follow if self.default_follow is not None else None. Is it worth it?

[Tim Graham]

Closing as wontfix pending a stronger rationale for the feature.