On Jan 24, 12:57 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <malc...@pointy-stick.com>
wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 12:15 -0800, Julien Phalip wrote:
> > On Jan 24, 2:45 am, varikin <vari...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > The UploadedFile[1] object has a field called content_type. So if you
> > > have this in a form:
>
> > > myfile = request.FILES['some_file']
> > > if myfile.content_type != 'application/zip':
> > >      #raise error
>
> > > I don't know if this will help you in your test. I hope it does.
>
> > > [1]http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/file-uploads/#upload...
>
> > > John
>
> > Hi John,
>
> > Thanks for your reply. The snippet you've given is the kind of things
> > my view already does. The problem is that, when testing with
> > self.client.post(), all files are systematically encoded as
> > 'application/octet-stream'. To test the behaviour of my view I need to
> > control the content type of each uploaded files. And it doesn't seem
> > like there's another way than creating a custom request from scratch
> > to achieve that. Is that correct?
>
> That sounds quite believable. After all, you are simulating what a
> browser (or other HTTP client) has to do, which includes setting the
> content type. You'll probably want to write a utility function for
> creating your requests to make your code shorter, but it seems
> reasonable that this is something you have construct. Asking Django's
> test framework to do MIME-type detection by default would take time and
> remove an element of predictability (and even correctness) from the
> tests.
>
> If you come up with a neat, unobtrusive helper function, you might want
> to consider creating a patch for Django's test module.

Just for the record, I created a ticket with patch here:
http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/10115

Regards,

Julien
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