#26668: HTTPResponse.content is not unicode in context of test cases.
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Reporter: wjdp | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: HTTP handling | Version: 1.8
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Came across the following when adding `from __future__ import
unicode_literals` to my test.py-s
When doing the following for an existing view with an expected output:
{{{
def test_page_not_found(self):
url = '/help/404/'
c = self.get_client()
response = c.get(url)
self.assertIn("Page Not Found", response.content)
}}}
We get:
{{{
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ERROR: test_page_not_found (xsd_help.tests.HelpViewTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/builds/wjdp/xsacdb/src/xsd_help/tests.py", line 23, in
test_page_not_found
self.assertTrue("Page Not Found" in response.content)
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position
21370: ordinal not in range(128)
}}}
Workaround is to replace `response.content` with
`unicode(response.content, encoding=settings.DEFAULT_ENCODING)`. According
to what I could find in the docs the content should be encoded with uft-8,
I think this issue is because `request.content` is a bytestring without an
encoding attached.
I'm raising this either in case this in not expected or if it is
suggesting a more descriptive error is generated and/or better
documentation for those who come across this - there was a *lot* of
headscratching needed to find the root of these test failures.
Another suggestion: could we have another property of HTTPResponse that
gives us a unicode string rather than a bytestring for test cases?
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/36004324/function-assertin-causes-
the-unicodedecodeerror/37456287 for another similar use case.
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