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authorTim Park <51100862+timpark0807@users.noreply.github.com>2020-07-08 01:40:33 -0700
committerCarlton Gibson <carlton.gibson@noumenal.es>2020-07-08 10:41:28 +0200
commit3756a0509ae48d91070fb65921dbb2d2155c61d1 (patch)
treed3affb53672ff1cc157c3a9cf1dc513c1d121229 /docs/ref
parentdad6973629aef058aa5d415a99c5014dd72e6468 (diff)
[3.1.x] Fixed #31739 -- Documented dependency between HttpRequest stream IO methods and body.
Backport of 060576b0abac460d72714e300aa709d1e7a87dd7 from master
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diff --git a/docs/ref/request-response.txt b/docs/ref/request-response.txt
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+++ b/docs/ref/request-response.txt
@@ -43,8 +43,10 @@ All attributes should be considered read-only, unless stated otherwise.
XML payload etc. For processing conventional form data, use
:attr:`HttpRequest.POST`.
- You can also read from an ``HttpRequest`` using a file-like interface. See
- :meth:`HttpRequest.read()`.
+ You can also read from an ``HttpRequest`` using a file-like interface with
+ :meth:`HttpRequest.read` or :meth:`HttpRequest.readline`. Accessing
+ the ``body`` attribute *after* reading the request with either of these I/O
+ stream methods will produce a ``RawPostDataException``.
.. attribute:: HttpRequest.path