HttpRequest.REQUEST is still mentioned in the documentation

[jeff.revesz@…]

The documentation page ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/ still mentions HttpRequest.REQUEST as an alternative to HttpRequest.GET and HttpRequest.POST

However I get an error when I try to access this attribute, and in addition it does not appear in the class documentation at https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/HttpRequest which leads me to believe that this attribute no longer exists. It should be removed from the the request-response documentation page.

[Tim Graham]

It does still exist. Your link is to the wiki, not the official documentation: ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#django.http.HttpRequest.REQUEST

That being said, there is a ticket to deprecate it, #18659.

[anonymous]

Ah, sorry! I think my problem was that I was using RequestFactory ​https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/topics/testing/advanced/ to generate the request. My best guess is that the RequestFactory class does not produce an HttpRequest with a REQUEST attribute.

[Baptiste Mispelon]

Hi,

It seems to be working fine for me:

>>> from django.test.client import RequestFactory
>>> request = RequestFactory().get('/foo/?bar=baz')
>>> request.GET
<QueryDict: {'bar': ['baz']}>
>>> request.REQUEST
MergeDict(<QueryDict: {}>, <QueryDict: {'bar': ['baz']}>)

Can you provide some steps to reproduce your issue?

Thanks.

[anonymous]

Sorry, turns out was not RequestFactory either. I was hand-generating a request like this:

r = HttpRequest()
r.method = 'GET'
r.GET = QueryDict('foo')

RequestFactory( ) still works fine, this was just an oversight on my part. Sorry to waste everyone's time!