Re: [Django] #11797: Test Client Response content form value parsing

[Django]

#11797: Test Client Response content form value parsing
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Reporter: Rupe | Owner: Rupe
Type: New feature | Status: closed
Component: Testing framework | Version: SVN
Severity: Normal | Resolution: wontfix
Keywords: test client content | Triage Stage: Design
form post get | decision needed
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Changes (by aaugustin):

* status: assigned => closed
* ui_ux: => 0
* resolution: => wontfix
* easy: => 0

Comment:

As pointed out by Russell in the mailing list thread linked above, this is
a significant increase of the scope of the test client, and it could be
considered feature creep. Parsing HTML is not as trivial a task as it
seems, even with Python's stdlib; browsers do incredible things to get it
right in almost all cases.

We're about to introduce support for live browser testing (for instance
with Selenium) in #2879 and I think it's a better path forwards.

It seems to me that the work on this ticket could live outside of trunk as
a subclass of the test client, couldn't it? It would be a good candidate
for djangosnippets.

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[Django]

#11797: Test Client Response content form value parsing
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Reporter: Joshua Russo | Owner: Joshua
| Russo

Type: New feature | Status: closed

Component: Testing framework | Version: master

Severity: Normal | Resolution: wontfix
Keywords: test client content | Triage Stage: Design
form post get | decision needed
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by Thomas Güttler):

Just for the records, here is an example how to parse a form from
`response.content` and submit it again with the Django TestClient:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/65603777/633961

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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/11797#comment:22>