Well as per title, APIRequestFactory() returns a WSGI request object. This means that it doesn't have a.data attribute.

The quick solution that google shows is to wrap it in aRequest object. However if we do something like:

factory = APIRequestFactory()request = factory.post('', {'title': 'new idea'})  # no path is relevant, we do not use it in our tests, just the data.drf_request = Request(request)print(drf_request.data)

We get the following error:
raise exceptions.UnsupportedMediaType(media_type)

And debugging shows that the parsers (list) is empty.