pythondjangotestingviewapiclient

Django APIClient Post Empty

I am writing a test for a post view. It does work, But when I try and post to it with APIClient.post, I get QueryDict: {}. Here is the test:

class SMSCreateData(APITestCase):
...
    def test_SMS(self):
        ...
        postData = {'Body': string, 'From': phNum.phone_number}
        self.client.post(reverse('SMS-data'), postData)

And here is the view:

def SMSSubmitDataPointView(request):
...
    try:
        print request.POST
...
Solution

  • urlencode your post data and set content_type to application/x-www-form-urlencoded. 

    from urllib.parse import urlencode  
# In python 2, use this instead: from urllib import urlencode  


response = self.client.post(reverse('SMS-data'), urlencode(postData),
    content_type='application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
)

    You will get data in request.POST