Method generic

django/test/client.py:733–782

Construct an arbitrary HTTP request.

(
        self,
        method,
        path,
        data="",
        content_type="application/octet-stream",
        secure=False,
        *,
        headers=None,
        query_params=None,
        **extra,
    )

        )

    def generic(
        self,
        method,
        path,
        data=class="st">"",
        content_type=class="st">"application/octet-stream",
        secure=False,
        *,
        headers=None,
        query_params=None,
        **extra,
    ):
        class="st">""class="st">"Construct an arbitrary HTTP request."class="st">""
        parsed = urlsplit(str(path))  class="cm"># path can be lazy.
        data = force_bytes(data, settings.DEFAULT_CHARSET)
        s = {
            class="st">"method": method,
            class="st">"path": self._get_path(parsed),
            class="st">"server": (class="st">"127.0.0.1", class="st">"443" if secure else class="st">"80"),
            class="st">"scheme": class="st">"https" if secure else class="st">"http",
            class="st">"headers": [(bclass="st">"host", bclass="st">"testserver")],
        }
        if self.defaults:
            extra = {**self.defaults, **extra}
        if data:
            s[class="st">"headers"].extend(
                [
                    (bclass="st">"content-length", str(len(data)).encode(class="st">"ascii")),
                    (bclass="st">"content-type", content_type.encode(class="st">"ascii")),
                ]
            )
            s[class="st">"_body_file"] = FakePayload(data)
        if query_params:
            s[class="st">"query_string"] = urlencode(query_params, doseq=True)
        elif query_string := extra.pop(class="st">"QUERY_STRING", None):
            s[class="st">"query_string"] = query_string
        else:
            class="cm"># If QUERY_STRING is absent or empty, we want to extract it from
            class="cm"># the URL.
            s[class="st">"query_string"] = parsed.query
        if headers:
            extra.update(HttpHeaders.to_asgi_names(headers))
        s[class="st">"headers"] += [
            class="cm"># Avoid breaking test clients that just want to supply normalized
            class="cm"># ASGI names, regardless of the fact that ASGIRequest drops headers
            class="cm"># with underscores (CVE-2026-3902).
            (key.lower().replace(class="st">"_", class="st">"-").encode(class="st">"ascii"), value.encode(class="st">"latin1"))
            for key, value in extra.items()
        ]
        return self.request(**s)


class ClientMixin: