[Twisted-web] Possible bug in nevow.testutil.FakeRequest setHeaders and getHeaders

[Peter Westlake]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:00 +0000, exarkun at twistedmatrix.com wrote:
> On 12:48 pm, peter.westlake at pobox.com wrote:
...
> >  class FakeRequest(nevow.testutil.FakeRequest):
> >      def getResponseHeader(self, key):
> >          return self.headers.get(key.lower())
> >
> >Should I put in a ticket requesting something like this?
> 
> Certainly.  Things are a little mixed up here though, let's see...
> 
> Twisted Web provides a base Request class.  Nevow subclasses it to 
> create the request class all Nevow applications get.  Then Twisted Web 
> also provides a FakeRequest, which isn't very good, and I think there is 
> a ticket (in the Twisted tracker) for improving.  Then Nevow provides 
> its own FakeRequest, not a subclass of Twisted's FakeRequest.  There 
> probably needs to be a Nevow ticket for doing something about Nevow's 
> FakeRequest class - in the short term, fixing these minor issues; but in 
> the longer term, getting rid of it, and hopefully NevowRequest as well, 
> makes a lot of sense.

The ticket for set/getHeader is http://divmod.org/trac/ticket/3029.

Getting rid of NevowRequest and Nevow's FakeRequest presumably
means adding their extra functionality to the ones in Twisted Web,
so would that ticket go into Nevow, Twisted, or both?

Peter.