Django-rest-framework: APIRequestFactory returns WSGIRequest objects

[skolsuper]

I am trying to test a custom permissions class using APIRequestFactory to fabricate a request. The custom permissions object checks the request body for an OTP using request.data, a convenience property added by DRF Request objects. However this fails because APIRequestFactory directly returns the WSGIRequest object returned by Django's RequestFactory.

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• [x] I have searched for similar issues in both open and closed tickets and cannot find a duplicate.
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• [x] This cannot be dealt with as a third party library. (We prefer new functionality to be in the form of third party libraries where possible.)
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  Steps to reproduce

    api_rf = APIRequestFactory()
    request = api_rf.post('/some/url', {})
    request.data.get('foo')

Expected behavior

None

Actual behavior

AttributeError: 'WSGIRequest' object has no attribute 'data'

[decentral1se]

This is a duplicate of #3608 (closed).

You can probably achieve what you want by following https://github.com/tomchristie/django-rest-framework/issues/3608#issuecomment-154427523.

[skolsuper]

So it is. Thanks for the heads-up 👍 .

[tomchristie]

Aside: I have warmed to the idea of ensuring that this returns a fully fledged Request instance, and having views be able to handle either, so this might come up in the future.

[technodivesh]

try
request.DATA
(caps)

[rpkilby]

https://github.com/encode/django-rest-framework/blob/1dc81acb4d351ef954291391b9151fa9c524ea43/rest_framework/request.py#L416-L421