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9002	Easy way to create mock Request objects for testing views	simon	Kevin Kubasik	"The testing framework currently encourages hooking up a view function using a URLconf and then using the TestClient to run tests against the view.

It would be nice if there was an easy way to bypass URLconf entirely in testing and just create a mock object representing a GET / POST / etc request, then pass that directly to the view function.

See this thread: http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/browse_thread/thread/db86050095ebe5db

And this snippet: http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/963/"	Uncategorized	closed	Testing framework	1.0	Normal	fixed			Accepted	0	0	0	0	0	0