Use proper in-line import in Request helper.
This demonstrates how the Request object works, and tests it.
You can instantiate a request using ``Request.blank()``, to create a
fresh environment dictionary with all the basic keys such a dictionary
should have.
>>> from dtopt import ELLIPSIS
>>> from webob import Request, UTC
>>> req = Request.blank('/')
>>> req # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
<Request at ... GET http://localhost/>
>>> print repr(str(req))
'GET /\r\nHost: localhost:80\r\n\r\n'
>>> req.environ # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
{...}
>>> req.body_file # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
<cStringIO.StringI object at ...>
>>> req.scheme
'http'
>>> req.method
'GET'
>>> req.script_name
''
>>> req.path_info
'/'
>>> req.content_type
''
>>> print req.remote_user
None
>>> req.host_url
'http://localhost'
>>> req.script_name = '/foo'
>>> req.path_info = '/bar/'
>>> req.environ['QUERY_STRING'] = 'a=b'
>>> req.application_url
'http://localhost/foo'
>>> req.path_url
'http://localhost/foo/bar/'
>>> req.url
'http://localhost/foo/bar/?a=b'
>>> req.relative_url('baz')
'http://localhost/foo/bar/baz'
>>> req.relative_url('baz', to_application=True)
'http://localhost/foo/baz'
>>> req.relative_url('http://example.org')
'http://example.org'
>>> req.path_info_peek()
'bar'
>>> req.path_info_pop()
'bar'
>>> req.script_name, req.path_info
('/foo/bar', '/')
>>> print req.environ.get('wsgiorg.routing_args')
None
>>> req.urlvars
{}
>>> req.environ['wsgiorg.routing_args']
((), {})
>>> req.urlvars = dict(x='y')
>>> req.environ['wsgiorg.routing_args']
((), {'x': 'y'})
>>> req.urlargs
()
>>> req.urlargs = (1, 2, 3)
>>> req.environ['wsgiorg.routing_args']
((1, 2, 3), {'x': 'y'})
>>> del req.urlvars
>>> req.environ['wsgiorg.routing_args']
((1, 2, 3), {})
>>> req.urlvars = {'test': 'value'}
>>> del req.urlargs
>>> req.environ['wsgiorg.routing_args']
((), {'test': 'value'})
>>> req.is_xhr
False
>>> req.environ['HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH'] = 'XMLHttpRequest'
>>> req.is_xhr
True
>>> req.host
'localhost:80'
There are also variables to access the variables and body:
>>> from cStringIO import StringIO
>>> body = 'var1=value1&var2=value2&rep=1&rep=2'
>>> req = Request.blank('/')
>>> req.method = 'POST'
>>> req.body_file = StringIO(body)
>>> req.environ['CONTENT_LENGTH'] = str(len(body))
>>> vars = req.str_POST
>>> vars
MultiDict([('var1', 'value1'), ('var2', 'value2'), ('rep', '1'), ('rep', '2')])
>>> vars is req.str_POST
True
>>> req.POST
MultiDict([('var1', 'value1'), ('var2', 'value2'), ('rep', '1'), ('rep', '2')])
>>> req.charset = 'utf8'
>>> req.POST
UnicodeMultiDict([(u'var1', u'value1'), (u'var2', u'value2'), (u'rep', u'1'), (u'rep', u'2')])
Note that the variables are there for GET requests and non-form POST
requests, but they are empty and read-only:
>>> req = Request.blank('/')
>>> req.str_POST
<NoVars: Not a POST request>
>>> req.str_POST.items()
[]
>>> req.str_POST['x'] = 'y'
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
KeyError: 'Cannot add variables: Not a POST request'
>>> req.method = 'POST'
>>> req.str_POST
MultiDict([])
>>> req.content_type = 'text/xml'
>>> req.body_file = StringIO('<xml></xml>')
>>> req.str_POST
<NoVars: Not an HTML form submission (Content-Type: text/xml)>
>>> req.body
'<xml></xml>'
You can also get access to the query string variables, of course:
>>> req = Request.blank('/?a=b&d=e&d=f')
>>> req.GET
MultiDict([('a', 'b'), ('d', 'e'), ('d', 'f')])
>>> req.GET['d']
'f'
>>> req.GET.getall('d')
['e', 'f']
>>> req.method = 'POST'
>>> req.body = 'x=y&d=g'
>>> req.body_file # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
<cStringIO.StringI object at ...>
>>> req.environ['CONTENT_LENGTH']
'7'
>>> req.params
NestedMultiDict([('a', 'b'), ('d', 'e'), ('d', 'f'), ('x', 'y'), ('d', 'g')])
>>> req.params['d']
'f'
>>> req.params.getall('d')
['e', 'f', 'g']
Cookie are viewed as a dictionary (*view only*):
>>> req = Request.blank('/')
>>> req.environ['HTTP_COOKIE'] = 'var1=value1; var2=value2'
>>> req.str_cookies
{'var1': 'value1', 'var2': 'value2'}
>>> req.cookies
{'var1': 'value1', 'var2': 'value2'}
>>> req.charset = 'utf8'
>>> req.cookies
UnicodeMultiDict([(u'var1', u'value1'), (u'var2', u'value2')])
Sometimes conditional headers are problematic. You can remove them:
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> req = Request.blank('/')
>>> req.if_match = 'some-etag'
>>> req.if_modified_since = datetime(2005, 1, 1, 12, 0)
>>> req.environ['HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING'] = 'gzip'
>>> print req.headers
{'Host': 'localhost:80', 'If-Match': 'some-etag', 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip', 'If-Modified-Since': 'Sat, 01 Jan 2005 12:00:00 GMT'}
>>> req.remove_conditional_headers()
>>> print req.headers
{'Host': 'localhost:80'}
Some headers are handled specifically (more should be added):
>>> req = Request.blank('/')
>>> req.if_none_match = 'xxx'
>>> 'xxx' in req.if_none_match
True
>>> 'yyy' in req.if_none_match
False
>>> req.if_modified_since = datetime(2005, 1, 1, 12, 0)
>>> req.if_modified_since < datetime(2006, 1, 1, 12, 0, tzinfo=UTC)
True
>>> req.user_agent
''
>>> req.user_agent = 'MSIE-Win'
>>> req.user_agent
'MSIE-Win'
Accept-* headers are parsed into read-only objects that support
containment tests, and some useful methods. Note that parameters on
mime types are not supported.
>>> req = Request.blank('/')
>>> req.environ['HTTP_ACCEPT'] = "text/*;q=0.3, text/html;q=0.7, text/html;level=1, text/html;level=2;q=0.4, */*;q=0.5"
>>> req.accept # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
<MIMEAccept at ... Accept: text/*;q=0.3, text/html;q=0.7, text/html, text/html;q=0.4, */*;q=0.5>
>>> for item, quality in req.accept._parsed:
... print '%s: %0.1f' % (item, quality)
text/*: 0.3
text/html: 0.7
text/html: 1.0
text/html: 0.4
*/*: 0.5
>>> '%0.1f' % req.accept.quality('text/html')
'0.3'
>>> req.accept.first_match(['text/plain', 'text/html', 'image/png'])
'text/plain'
>>> 'image/png' in req.accept
True
>>> req.environ['HTTP_ACCEPT'] = "text/html, application/xml; q=0.7, text/*; q=0.5, */*; q=0.1"
>>> req.accept # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
<MIMEAccept at ... Accept: text/html, application/xml;q=0.7, text/*;q=0.5, */*;q=0.1>
>>> req.accept.best_match(['text/plain', 'application/xml'])
'application/xml'
>>> req.accept.first_match(['application/xml', 'text/html'])
'application/xml'
>>> req.accept = "text/html, application/xml, text/*; q=0.5"
>>> 'image/png' in req.accept
False
>>> 'text/plain' in req.accept
True
>>> req.accept_charset = 'utf8'
>>> 'UTF8' in req.accept_charset
True
>>> 'gzip' in req.accept_encoding
False
>>> req.accept_encoding = 'gzip'
>>> 'GZIP' in req.accept_encoding
True
>>> req.accept_language = {'en-US': 0.5, 'es': 0.7}
>>> str(req.accept_language)
'es;q=0.7, en-US;q=0.5'
>>> req.headers['Accept-Language']
'es;q=0.7, en-US;q=0.5'
>>> req.accept_language.best_matches('en-GB')
['es', 'en-US', 'en-GB']
>>> req.accept_language.best_matches('es')
['es']
>>> req.accept_language.best_matches('ES')
['es']
The If-Range header is a combination of a possible conditional date or
etag match::
>>> req = Request.blank('/')
>>> req.if_range = 'asdf'
>>> req.if_range
<IfRange etag=asdf, date=*>
>>> from webob import Response
>>> res = Response()
>>> res.etag = 'asdf'
>>> req.if_range.match_response(res)
True
>>> res.etag = None
>>> req.if_range.match_response(res)
False
>>> res.last_modified = datetime(2005, 1, 1, 12, 0, tzinfo=UTC)
>>> req.if_range = datetime(2006, 1, 1, 12, 0, tzinfo=UTC)
>>> req.if_range
<IfRange etag=*, date=Sun, 01 Jan 2006 12:00:00 GMT>
>>> req.if_range.match_response(res)
True
>>> res.last_modified = datetime(2007, 1, 1, 12, 0, tzinfo=UTC)
>>> req.if_range.match_response(res)
False
>>> req = Request.blank('/')
>>> req.if_range
<Empty If-Range>
>>> req.if_range.match_response(res)
True
Ranges work like so::
>>> req = Request.blank('/')
>>> req.range = (0, 100)
>>> req.range
<Range ranges=(0, 100)>
>>> str(req.range)
'bytes=0-101'
You can use them with responses::
>>> res = Response()
>>> res.content_range = req.range.content_range(1000)
>>> res.content_range
<ContentRange bytes 0-101/1000>
>>> str(res.content_range)
'bytes 0-101/1000'
>>> start, end, length = res.content_range
>>> start, end, length
(0, 100, 1000)
A quick test of caching the request body:
>>> from cStringIO import StringIO
>>> length = Request.request_body_tempfile_limit+10
>>> data = StringIO('x'*length)
>>> req = Request.blank('/')
>>> req.content_length = length
>>> req.body_file = data
>>> req.body_file
<cStringIO.StringI object at ...>
>>> len(req.body)
10250
>>> req.body_file
<open file '<fdopen>', mode 'w+b' at ...>
Some query tests:
>>> req = Request.blank('/')
>>> req.GET.get('unknown')
>>> req.GET.get('unknown', '?')
'?'
>>> req.POST.get('unknown')
>>> req.POST.get('unknown', '?')
'?'
>>> req.params.get('unknown')
>>> req.params.get('unknown', '?')
'?'