On Jun 11, 3:59 pm, bruno desthuilliers
<bruno.desthuilli...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11 juin, 14:36, Andres <andres.doug...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I'm experiencing a really bizarre behavior when using the test client
> > in django.
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> > I'm using a POST to send data to my django app. I usually do this from
> > an iPhone app and/or a test html form. On the server side, this is how
> > I handle it:
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> > def handle_query(request):
> > print request
> > q = con.QueryLog()
> > q.ID = request.POST.get('ID', '')
> > q.device = request.POST.get('device-model', '')
> > ....
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> > That print statement looks like what you would expect, i.e. each
> > parameter in the post request is turned into a key in the dictionary:
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> > POST:<QueryDict: {u'app-version': [u'3.0'], u'server-version':
> > [u'v3d0'],
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> > However, I started writing some tests using django's test client, and
> > no matter what I try, the dictionary of POST parameters I send in the
> > post request get bunched into a single key in the QueryDict. Allow me
> > to illustrate with some code:
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> > class SearchTest(TestCase):
> > def setUp(self):
> > pass
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> > def test_search(self):
> > request = HttpRequest()
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> > data = '{"amzn_locale":"com"}'
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> That's a string representation of plain dict.
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> > # request._raw_post_data = data
> > resp = self.client.post('/is/',
> > data=data,
> > content_type='application/x-www-form-
> > urlencoded',
> > # content_type='application/json',
> > )
> > The same print statement on the server side shows the inexplicable
> > grouping of the dictionary into a string:
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> > POST:<QueryDict: {u'{"amzn_locale":"com"}': [u'']}>,
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> What else did you expect exactly ? You're supposed to pass a dict, not
> a string representation of a dict.
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> > If I set data to an actual dictionary, same thing
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> > data = '{"amzn_locale":"com"}'
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> This is the exact same string. Remove the surrounding single quotes if
> you want a dict litteral.
Sorry that was a typo in the post. The same behavior happens with the
following:
data = {"amzn_locale":"com"}
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