Wrap exceptions caused by parsers in ParseError in request wrapper

rest_framework/request.py

@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ class Request:
 
         try:
             parsed = parser.parse(stream, media_type, self.parser_context)
-        except Exception:
+        except Exception as exc:
             # If we get an exception during parsing, fill in empty data and
             # re-raise.  Ensures we don't simply repeat the error when
             # attempting to render the browsable renderer response, or when
@@ -364,6 +364,9 @@ class Request:
             self._data = QueryDict('', encoding=self._request._encoding)
             self._files = MultiValueDict()
             self._full_data = self._data
+            if isinstance(exc, AttributeError):
+                raise exceptions.ParseError(str(exc))
+
             raise
 
         # Parser classes may return the raw data, or a

tests/test_request.py

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ from django.urls import path
 
 from rest_framework import status
 from rest_framework.authentication import SessionAuthentication
+from rest_framework.exceptions import ParseError
 from rest_framework.parsers import BaseParser, FormParser, MultiPartParser
 from rest_framework.request import Request, WrappedAttributeError
 from rest_framework.response import Response
@@ -52,6 +53,13 @@ class PlainTextParser(BaseParser):
         return stream.read()
 
 
+class BrokenParser(BaseParser):
+    media_type = 'text/plain'
+
+    def parse(self, stream, media_type=None, parser_context=None):
+        raise AttributeError
+
+
 class TestContentParsing(TestCase):
     def test_standard_behaviour_determines_no_content_GET(self):
         """
@@ -126,6 +134,17 @@ class TestContentParsing(TestCase):
         request.parsers = (PlainTextParser(), )
         assert request.data == content
 
+    def test_request_data_with_broken_parser(self):
+        """
+        Ensure request.data raise ParseError if anything went wrong during parsing
+        """
+        content = b'qwerty'
+        content_type = 'text/plain'
+        request = Request(factory.post('/', content, content_type=content_type))
+        request.parsers = (BrokenParser(), )
+        with self.assertRaises(ParseError):
+            request.data
+
 
 class MockView(APIView):
     authentication_classes = (SessionAuthentication,)