Django - Emulate a http-post request

I have this view function search(request). The url suffix is /search. It takes a few POST parameters and shows search results accordingly.

I want to make a second function show_popular(request). It takes no post开发者_开发技巧 or get parameters. But it should emulate a call to the search function with some hard coded post parameters.

I want to achieve this without changing anything in any existing function and without changing setup. Is that possible?

EDIT: I know this can be achieved by refactoring the search into a separate function and have several view functions call this. But in this particular case, I am not interested in that. In my case the show_popular function is only temporary, and for irrelevant reasons I do not wish to re-factor.

Yes, but you don't want to do that. Refactor search() into a function that handles the request and a function that performs the search, and call the latter from show_popular().