Does Django request.REQUEST.get() contain BOTH GET and POST parameters?

Question

Are the parameters in request.POST and request.GET BOTH in request.REQUEST ? Or i have to check for each of them ?

I can't find a clear info in the documentation for both REQUEST/QueryDict. NB: Django 1.4 Final

Answer 1

No, this was possible in older versions but was depreciated in Django 1.7. For Django archeologists running ancient versions, keep reading.

From the documentation:

HttpRequest.REQUEST

For convenience, a dictionary-like object that searches POST first, then GET. Inspired by PHP’s $_REQUEST.

For example, if GET = {"name": "john"} and POST = {"age": '34'}, REQUEST["name"] would be "john", and REQUEST["age"] would be "34".

It’s strongly suggested that you use GET and POST instead of REQUEST, because the former are more explicit.

Answer 2

If you're not sure which you need to use, if can be handy to replace with this :

def get_post_or_get(request):
    """
    Return the equivalent of request.REQUEST 
    which has been removed in Django 1.9
    """
    return request.POST or request.GET

reference : https://github.com/edx/django-openid-auth/pull/5/commits/aa5eef791cd487eb359db25011572d5966a2c92a