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POManually get response from class-based generic view
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copied!<p>I'm trying to write a test that validates HTML returned from a generic class-based view. Let's say I have this function-based view that simply renders a template:</p> <pre><code># views.py from django.shortcuts import render def simple_view(request, template='template.html'): return render(request, template) </code></pre> <p>With that, during testing I can just do:</p> <pre><code># tests.py from django.http import HttpRequest from .views import simple_view request = HttpRequest() response = simple_view(request) </code></pre> <p>and then do the validation on the <code>response</code>. Now I would like to convert the above to a class-based view inheriting from TemplateView:</p> <pre><code># views.py from django.views.generic import TemplateView class SimpleView(TemplateView): template_name = 'template.html' </code></pre> <p>Now essentially the same testing method fails:</p> <pre><code># tests.py from django.http import HttpRequest from .views import SimpleView request = HttpRequest() view_func = SimpleView.as_view() response = view_func(request).render() </code></pre> <p>results in</p> <pre><code>Traceback (most recent call last): File "tests.py", line 30, in test_home_page_returns_correct_html response = view_func(request).render() File "lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py", line 68, in view return self.dispatch(request, *args, **kwargs) File "lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/views/generic/base.py", line 82, in dispatch if request.method.lower() in self.http_method_names: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'lower' </code></pre> <p>I've tried setting <code>request.method</code> manually to <code>GET</code>, but that just brings up another error complaining about <code>session</code> not being in <code>request</code>.</p> <p>Is there a way of getting a response from TemplateView with "empty" request?</p>

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