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I am writing views, not so keen to write templates right away.
But I need to test my program by submitting post requests.
How do i simulate HTTP Post from within a django view
I am aware that urllib2 and httplib modules of python allow a lot of options, but I am looking for something that elegantly integrates into the django views.
Would U create a method that performs post, where would you call it from?
Update: Some of the answers deal with testing by sending a POST to my application. What if I want to POST to an external service and deal with POST response. How can I do it without writing templates.
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When a POST request is received at the Django server, the data in the request can be retrieved using the HTTPRequest. POST dictionary. All the data of the POST request body is stored in this dictionary. For example, you can use the following code snippet inside your view.py file.
Django uses request and response objects to pass state through the system. When a page is requested, Django creates an HttpRequest object that contains metadata about the request. Then Django loads the appropriate view, passing the HttpRequest as the first argument to the view function.
GET and POSTDjango's login form is returned using the POST method, in which the browser bundles up the form data, encodes it for transmission, sends it to the server, and then receives back its response. GET , by contrast, bundles the submitted data into a string, and uses this to compose a URL.
Django has a built in mock Client utility that can mimic requests as if they are coming from a browser. If you don't need to fully mimic a browser and just want to invoke your views directly from your tests, consider using a RequestFactory instead.
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