#29268: Support passing content_type=None to test.Client.post() to get the
default
value
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Reporter: Chris Jerdonek | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: Testing framework | Version: 2.0
Severity: Normal | 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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Currently, passing `content_type=None` to
[https://github.com/django/django/blob/76ae1e9a94cbfddbbf115ad96f26901ba5c02d44/django/test/client.py#L532
`test.Client.post()`] results in the following error:
{{{
TypeError: expected string or bytes-like object
}}}
instead of causing the default `content_type` value. It would be more
user-friendly if passing `None` resulted in the default value.
One reason is as follows. Currently, if one wants to create a wrapper
function around `post()` with the same default behavior, the user either
needs to (1) duplicate / hard-code the default value in their wrapper
function, or (2) special-case `None` with a second invocation of `post()`
using a different function signature (i.e. one that doesn't pass //any//
`content_type` value). You can even see this happening in `client.py` with
the way that `Client.post()` invokes `RequestFactory.post()` -- the
default needs to be hard-coded twice.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/29268>
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