""" .. >>> from djangorestframework.parsers import FormParser >>> from djangorestframework.compat import RequestFactory >>> from djangorestframework.resource import Resource >>> from StringIO import StringIO >>> from urllib import urlencode >>> req = RequestFactory().get('/') >>> some_resource = Resource() >>> some_resource.request = req # Make as if this request had been dispatched FormParser ============ Data flatening ---------------- Here is some example data, which would eventually be sent along with a post request : >>> inpt = urlencode([ ... ('key1', 'bla1'), ... ('key2', 'blo1'), ('key2', 'blo2'), ... ]) Default behaviour for :class:`parsers.FormParser`, is to return a single value for each parameter : >>> FormParser(some_resource).parse(StringIO(inpt)) == {'key1': 'bla1', 'key2': 'blo1'} True However, you can customize this behaviour by subclassing :class:`parsers.FormParser`, and overriding :meth:`parsers.FormParser.is_a_list` : >>> class MyFormParser(FormParser): ... ... def is_a_list(self, key, val_list): ... return len(val_list) > 1 This new parser only flattens the lists of parameters that contain a single value. >>> MyFormParser(some_resource).parse(StringIO(inpt)) == {'key1': 'bla1', 'key2': ['blo1', 'blo2']} True .. note:: The same functionality is available for :class:`parsers.MultipartParser`. Submitting an empty list -------------------------- When submitting an empty select multiple, like this one :: The browsers usually strip the parameter completely. A hack to avoid this, and therefore being able to submit an empty select multiple, is to submit a value that tells the server that the list is empty :: :class:`parsers.FormParser` provides the server-side implementation for this hack. Considering the following posted data : >>> inpt = urlencode([ ... ('key1', 'blo1'), ('key1', '_empty'), ... ('key2', '_empty'), ... ]) :class:`parsers.FormParser` strips the values ``_empty`` from all the lists. >>> MyFormParser(some_resource).parse(StringIO(inpt)) == {'key1': 'blo1'} True Oh ... but wait a second, the parameter ``key2`` isn't even supposed to be a list, so the parser just stripped it. >>> class MyFormParser(FormParser): ... ... def is_a_list(self, key, val_list): ... return key == 'key2' ... >>> MyFormParser(some_resource).parse(StringIO(inpt)) == {'key1': 'blo1', 'key2': []} True Better like that. Note that you can configure something else than ``_empty`` for the empty value by setting :attr:`parsers.FormParser.EMPTY_VALUE`. """ import httplib, mimetypes from tempfile import TemporaryFile from django.test import TestCase from djangorestframework.compat import RequestFactory from djangorestframework.parsers import MultipartParser from djangorestframework.resource import Resource from djangorestframework.utils.mediatypes import MediaType from StringIO import StringIO def encode_multipart_formdata(fields, files): """For testing multipart parser. fields is a sequence of (name, value) elements for regular form fields. files is a sequence of (name, filename, value) elements for data to be uploaded as files Return (content_type, body).""" BOUNDARY = '----------ThIs_Is_tHe_bouNdaRY_$' CRLF = '\r\n' L = [] for (key, value) in fields: L.append('--' + BOUNDARY) L.append('Content-Disposition: form-data; name="%s"' % key) L.append('') L.append(value) for (key, filename, value) in files: L.append('--' + BOUNDARY) L.append('Content-Disposition: form-data; name="%s"; filename="%s"' % (key, filename)) L.append('Content-Type: %s' % get_content_type(filename)) L.append('') L.append(value) L.append('--' + BOUNDARY + '--') L.append('') body = CRLF.join(L) content_type = 'multipart/form-data; boundary=%s' % BOUNDARY return content_type, body def get_content_type(filename): return mimetypes.guess_type(filename)[0] or 'application/octet-stream' class TestMultipartParser(TestCase): def setUp(self): self.req = RequestFactory() self.content_type, self.body = encode_multipart_formdata([('key1', 'val1'), ('key1', 'val2')], [('file1', 'pic.jpg', 'blablabla'), ('file1', 't.txt', 'blobloblo')]) def test_multipartparser(self): """Ensure that MultipartParser can parse multipart/form-data that contains a mix of several files and parameters.""" post_req = RequestFactory().post('/', self.body, content_type=self.content_type) resource = Resource() resource.request = post_req parsed = MultipartParser(resource).parse(StringIO(self.body)) self.assertEqual(parsed['key1'], 'val1') self.assertEqual(parsed.FILES['file1'].read(), 'blablabla')