Class HttpRequest

django/http/request.py:54–519

A basic HTTP request.

class HttpRequest:
    """A basic HTTP request."""

    # The encoding used in GET/POST dicts. None means use default setting.
    _encoding = None
    _upload_handlers = []
    _multipart_parser_class = MultiPartParser

    def __init__(self):
        # WARNING: The `WSGIRequest` subclass doesn't call `super`.
        # Any variable assignment made here should also happen in
        # `WSGIRequest.__init__()`.

        self.GET = QueryDict(mutable=True)
        self.POST = QueryDict(mutable=True)
        self.COOKIES = {}
        self.META = {}
        self.FILES = MultiValueDict()

        self.path = ""
        self.path_info = ""
        self.method = None
        self.resolver_match = None
        self.content_type = None
        self.content_params = None

    def __repr__(self):
        if self.method is None or not self.get_full_path():
            return "<%s>" % self.__class__.__name__
        return "<%s: %s %r>" % (
            self.__class__.__name__,
            self.method,
            self.get_full_path(),
        )

    @cached_property
    def headers(self):
        return HttpHeaders(self.META)

    @cached_property
    def accepted_types(self):
        """
        Return a list of MediaType instances, in order of preference (quality).
        """
        header_value = self.headers.get("Accept", "*/*")
        return sorted(
            (
                media_type
                for token in header_value.split(",")
                if token.strip() and (media_type := MediaType(token)).quality != 0
            ),
            key=operator.attrgetter("quality", "specificity"),
            reverse=True,
        )

    @cached_property
    def accepted_types_by_precedence(self):
        """