removed useless stuff, request.POST and FILES not used + some doc

djangorestframework/content.py

@@ -24,42 +24,18 @@ class StandardContentMixin(ContentMixin):
             return None
         return (request.META.get('CONTENT_TYPE', None), request.raw_post_data)
 
-from django.core.files.base import File
-class SocketFile(File):
-    # Only forward access is allowed
-    def __init__(self, socket, size):
-        super(SocketFile, self).__init__(socket)
-        self._size = int(size)
-        self._pos = 0
-
-    def read(self, num_bytes=None):
-        if num_bytes is None:
-            num_bytes = self._size - self._pos
-        else:
-            num_bytes = min(num_bytes, self._size - self._pos)
-        self._pos += num_bytes
-        return self.file.read(num_bytes)
-
-    def tell(self):
-        return self._pos
-
-    def seek(self, position):
-        pass
 
 class OverloadedContentMixin(ContentMixin):
     """HTTP request content behaviour that also allows arbitrary content to be tunneled in form data."""
 
-    #TODO: test PUT
-    #TODO: rewrite cleaner
-
-    """The name to use for the content override field in the POST form."""
+    """The name to use for the content override field in the POST form. Set this to *None* to desactivate content overloading."""
     CONTENT_PARAM = '_content'
 
-    """The name to use for the content-type override field in the POST form."""
+    """The name to use for the content-type override field in the POST form. Taken into account only if content overloading is activated."""
     CONTENTTYPE_PARAM = '_contenttype'
 
     def determine_content(self, request):
-        """If the request contains content return a tuple of (content_type, content) otherwise return None.
+        """If the request contains content, returns a tuple of (content_type, content) otherwise returns None.
         Note that content_type may be None if it is unset."""
         if not request.META.get('CONTENT_LENGTH', None) and not request.META.get('TRANSFER_ENCODING', None):
             return None # TODO : Breaks, because determine_content should return a tuple.
@@ -68,14 +44,11 @@ class OverloadedContentMixin(ContentMixin):
         if (request.method == 'POST' and self.CONTENT_PARAM and
             request.POST.get(self.CONTENT_PARAM, None) is not None):
 
-            # Set content type if form contains a none empty FORM_PARAM_CONTENTTYPE field
+            # Set content type if form contains a non-empty CONTENTTYPE_PARAM field
             content_type = None
             if self.CONTENTTYPE_PARAM and request.POST.get(self.CONTENTTYPE_PARAM, None):
                 content_type = request.POST.get(self.CONTENTTYPE_PARAM, None)
 
             return (content_type, request.POST[self.CONTENT_PARAM])
-        elif request.method == 'PUT':
-            f = SocketFile(request.environ['wsgi.input'], request.META['CONTENT_LENGTH'])
-            return (content_type, f.read())
         else:
             return (content_type, request.raw_post_data)

djangorestframework/parsers.py

@@ -114,13 +114,7 @@ class FormParser(BaseParser, DataFlatener):
     EMPTY_VALUE = 'EMPTY'
 
     def parse(self, input):
-        request = self.resource.request
-
-        if request.method == 'PUT':
         data = parse_qs(input)
-        elif request.method == 'POST':
-            # Django has already done the form parsing for us.
-            data = dict(request.POST.iterlists())
 
         # Flatening data and removing EMPTY_VALUEs from the lists
         data = self.flatten_data(data)
@@ -150,14 +144,9 @@ class MultipartParser(BaseParser, DataFlatener):
     def parse(self, input):
         request = self.resource.request
 
-        if request.method == 'PUT':
         upload_handlers = request._get_upload_handlers()
         django_mpp = DjangoMPParser(request.META, StringIO(input), upload_handlers)
         data, files = django_mpp.parse()
-        elif request.method == 'POST':
-            # Django has already done the form parsing for us.
-            data = request.POST
-            files = request.FILES
 
         # Flatening data, files and combining them
         data = self.flatten_data(data)

djangorestframework/utils.py

@@ -34,44 +34,6 @@ def url_resolves(url):
         return False
     return True
 
-# From piston
-def coerce_put_post(request):
-    """
-    Django doesn't particularly understand REST.
-    In case we send data over PUT, Django won't
-    actually look at the data and load it. We need
-    to twist its arm here.
-    
-    The try/except abominiation here is due to a bug
-    in mod_python. This should fix it.
-    """
-    if request.method != 'PUT':
-        return
-
-    # Bug fix: if _load_post_and_files has already been called, for
-    # example by middleware accessing request.POST, the below code to
-    # pretend the request is a POST instead of a PUT will be too late
-    # to make a difference. Also calling _load_post_and_files will result 
-    # in the following exception:
-    #   AttributeError: You cannot set the upload handlers after the upload has been processed.
-    # The fix is to check for the presence of the _post field which is set 
-    # the first time _load_post_and_files is called (both by wsgi.py and 
-    # modpython.py). If it's set, the request has to be 'reset' to redo
-    # the query value parsing in POST mode.
-    if hasattr(request, '_post'):
-        del request._post
-        del request._files
-    
-    try:
-        request.method = "POST"
-        request._load_post_and_files()
-        request.method = "PUT"
-    except AttributeError:
-        request.META['REQUEST_METHOD'] = 'POST'
-        request._load_post_and_files()
-        request.META['REQUEST_METHOD'] = 'PUT'
-        
-    request.PUT = request.POST
 
 # From http://www.koders.com/python/fidB6E125C586A6F49EAC38992CF3AFDAAE35651975.aspx?s=mdef:xml
 #class object_dict(dict):