How to Show All Methods of the Request Object in Django

In this article, we go over how to show all methods of the request object in Django.

The request object in Django is very important and very used.

The request object is passed through to functions in Django.

It shows that there is a request that must then be processed by the server.

To print out all methods associated with the request object in Django, you can use the following code in a function in the views.py file.

from django.http import HttpResponse def view1(request): print(dir(request)) return HttpResponse(dir(request))

The associated methods of the request object will appear in the command prompt, not the web browser.

The methods that you should get should be those listed below.

['COOKIES', 'FILES', 'GET', 'META', 'POST', '__class__', '__delattr__', '__dict__', '__dir__', '__doc__', '__eq__', '__format__', '__ge__', '__getattribute__', '__gt__', '__hash__', '__init__', '__init_subclass__', '__iter__', '__le__', '__lt__', '__module__', '__ne__', '__new__', '__reduce__', '__reduce_ex__', '__repr__', '__setattr__', '__sizeof__', '__str__', '__subclasshook__', '__weakref__', '_encoding', '_get_post', '_get_raw_host', '_get_scheme', '_initialize_handlers', '_load_post_and_files', '_mark_post_parse_error', '_messages', '_post_parse_error', '_read_started', '_set_post', '_stream', '_upload_handlers', 'body', 'build_absolute_uri', 'close', 'content_params', 'content_type', 'csrf_processing_done', 'encoding', 'environ', 'get_full_path', 'get_host', 'get_port', 'get_raw_uri', 'get_signed_cookie', 'is_ajax', 'is_secure', 'method', 'parse_file_upload', 'path', 'path_info', 'read', 'readline', 'readlines', 'resolver_match', 'scheme', 'session', 'upload_handlers', 'user', 'xreadlines']

So, this is how you can show all methods associated with the request object in Django.

You can then test these methods.

request.user, for example, gets the user.

So there is a lot of methods that you can use with the request object to get data that is really behind the scenes, server-side data.

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