""" .. >>> from djangorestframework.parsers import FormParser >>> from djangorestframework.compat import RequestFactory >>> from djangorestframework.views import BaseView >>> from StringIO import StringIO >>> from urllib import urlencode >>> req = RequestFactory().get('/') >>> some_view = BaseView() >>> some_view.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_view).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_view).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_view).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_view).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.views import BaseView 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) view = BaseView() view.request = post_req parsed = MultiPartParser(view).parse(StringIO(self.body)) self.assertEqual(parsed['key1'], 'val1') self.assertEqual(parsed.FILES['file1'].read(), 'blablabla')