Fixed #18523 -- Added stream-like API to HttpResponse.

Added getvalue() to HttpResponse to return the content of the response,
along with a few other methods to partially match io.IOBase.

Thanks Claude Paroz for the suggestion and Nick Sanford for review.

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/docs/ref/request-response.txt b/docs/ref/request-response.txt
index 2a43756889..a86f416620 100644
--- a/docs/ref/request-response.txt
+++ b/docs/ref/request-response.txt
@@ -651,6 +651,12 @@ Attributes
     This attribute exists so middleware can treat streaming responses
     differently from regular responses.
 
+.. attribute:: HttpResponse.closed
+
+    .. versionadded:: 1.8
+
+    ``True`` if the response has been closed.
+
 Methods
 -------
 
@@ -769,6 +775,27 @@ Methods
 
     This method makes an :class:`HttpResponse` instance a file-like object.
 
+.. method:: HttpResponse.getvalue()
+
+    .. versionadded:: 1.8
+
+    Returns the value of :attr:`HttpResponse.content`. This method makes
+    an :class:`HttpResponse` instance a stream-like object.
+
+.. method:: HttpResponse.writable()
+
+    .. versionadded:: 1.8
+
+    Always ``True``. This method makes an :class:`HttpResponse` instance a
+    stream-like object.
+
+.. method:: HttpResponse.writelines(lines)
+
+    .. versionadded:: 1.8
+
+    Writes a list of lines to the response. Line seperators are not added. This
+    method makes an :class:`HttpResponse` instance a stream-like object.
+
 .. _HTTP status code: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10
 
 .. _ref-httpresponse-subclasses:
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.8.txt b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
index 492fad478f..00a2c9844c 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.8.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/1.8.txt
@@ -385,6 +385,10 @@ Requests and Responses
   <django.http.HttpRequest.get_full_path>` method now escapes unsafe characters
   from the path portion of a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) properly.
 
+* :class:`~django.http.HttpResponse` now implements a few additional methods
+  like :meth:`~django.http.HttpResponse.getvalue` so that instances can be used
+  as stream objects.
+
 Tests
 ^^^^^