Added APIRequestFactory

1 files changed, 37 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rest_framework/compat.py b/rest_framework/compat.py
index cb122846..6f7447ad 100644
--- a/rest_framework/compat.py
+++ b/rest_framework/compat.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import django
 from django.core.exceptions import ImproperlyConfigured
+from django.conf import settings
 
 # Try to import six from Django, fallback to included `six`.
 try:
@@ -83,7 +84,6 @@ def get_concrete_model(model_cls):
 
 # Django 1.5 add support for custom auth user model
 if django.VERSION >= (1, 5):
-    from django.conf import settings
     AUTH_USER_MODEL = settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL
 else:
     AUTH_USER_MODEL = 'auth.User'
@@ -436,6 +436,42 @@ except ImportError:
         return force_text(url)
 
 
+# RequestFactory only provide `generic` from 1.5 onwards
+
+from django.test.client import RequestFactory as DjangoRequestFactory
+from django.test.client import FakePayload
+try:
+    # In 1.5 the test client uses force_bytes
+    from django.utils.encoding import force_bytes_or_smart_bytes
+except ImportError:
+    # In 1.3 and 1.4 the test client just uses smart_str
+    from django.utils.encoding import smart_str as force_bytes_or_smart_bytes
+
+
+class RequestFactory(DjangoRequestFactory):
+    def generic(self, method, path,
+            data='', content_type='application/octet-stream', **extra):
+        parsed = urlparse.urlparse(path)
+        data = force_bytes_or_smart_bytes(data, settings.DEFAULT_CHARSET)
+        r = {
+            'PATH_INFO':      self._get_path(parsed),
+            'QUERY_STRING':   force_text(parsed[4]),
+            'REQUEST_METHOD': str(method),
+        }
+        if data:
+            r.update({
+                'CONTENT_LENGTH': len(data),
+                'CONTENT_TYPE':   str(content_type),
+                'wsgi.input':     FakePayload(data),
+            })
+        elif django.VERSION <= (1, 4):
+            # For 1.3 we need an empty WSGI payload
+            r.update({
+                'wsgi.input': FakePayload('')
+            })
+        r.update(extra)
+        return self.request(**r)
+
 # Markdown is optional
 try:
     import markdown