From 1e8df145a8bbfbbf562981a3a4a4c85a24946824 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Di Wu <dw323@cornell.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 17:27:20 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] django.test.Client compatibility for POST

---
 rest_framework/request.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/rest_framework/request.py b/rest_framework/request.py
index 846cadcd9..562931f6d 100644
--- a/rest_framework/request.py
+++ b/rest_framework/request.py
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ class Request(object):
         if not _hasattr(self, '_data'):
             self._load_data_and_files()
         if is_form_media_type(self.content_type):
-            return self.data
+            return self.data or self._request.POST
         return QueryDict('', encoding=self._request._encoding)
 
     @property