Question

The django.http.HttpRequest object in the manage.py shell does not have a GET or POST attribute. Is there really no way of setting the same POST or GET data as in my Django views from one of its urls to a QueryDict in the manage.py shell?

Answer 1

Can you paste what you are typing? I’m able to add data to the GET dictionary.

(stackoverflow)➜  my_project  python ./manage.py shell
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(InteractiveConsole)
>>> from django.http import HttpRequest
>>> req = HttpRequest()
>>> print req
<HttpRequest
path:,
GET:{},
POST:{},
COOKIES:{},
META:{}>
>>> req.GET['test'] = 'hello world'
>>> print req
<HttpRequest
path:,
GET:{'test': 'hello world'},
POST:{},
COOKIES:{},
META:{}>
>>>