To simulate requests I am using following code and works perfect for me:
from django.test.client import Client
c = Client()
response = c.get('/url/you/want/to/request')
On Tuesday, July 8, 2008 7:16:54 AM UTC+5:30, Andrew wrote:
>
> Here's the situation:
>
> I'm creating an RESTful internal API as an app in our project. Our
> 'main' app (we'll call it main) is a client of the API app. Since
> we're building the API piece by piece as we use it, the emphasis on
> all of this is simple simple simple -- with our eye on eventually
> opening up pieces of the API to the public.
>
> The general flow looks like:
> request => main app handling => API client => API logic.
>
> Because right now both of the apps live in the same project and are
> being served from the same boxes (and the API won't be running on a
> separate machine for a while), I figured, hey, why not just fake an
> HttpRequest from the main app logic and pass it over to API? That way,
> we don't need to worry about exposing the internal URLs, we don't need
> to worry about authentication right now, it'll be simple.
>
> Right now the API client I've written takes an HTTP method, path, and
> params, uses resolve(path, api.urls) to get the view, and then calls
> the view using a fake HttpRequest that I populate myself.
>
> The one problem is that I'm finding it much harder to fake the
> HttpRequests than I thought -- namely because the RESTful handlers on
> the API side are expecting things like request._get_post_and_files()
> to be present.
>
> So, my thoughts:
> a) Continue using the lightweight API "client" I've written, but
> instead of building a HttpRequest, fake a WSGIRequest instead (with
> the _minimum_ data needed)
> b) Patch the django test client to deal with PUT and DELETE and use
> that as our API client
> c) Import the API urls.py into the main urls.py and call the API
> methods by generating actual HTTP requests
>
> I'm not crazy about c) since it requires more infrastructure work now.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
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