Posting a form back with it's default values in the Django TestClient

I'm writing some tests for some forms in Django. These forms change quite often so I'm trying to avoid hard-coding the form parameters into my tests as because every time my form would change, I'd have to modify the tests as well. I have quite a few forms of this nature. I'm mainly testing that the info开发者_如何学Crmation is stored properly in the correct tables without really bothering about each form field.

Using the Django TestClient, is there a way I could fetch the page with the form and then post it back with the default form field values filed in?

I've Googled around for this but to no avail.

An y help guys? Thanks.

I've had to do something like this before, and unfortunately there is no easy way to do it. The best I could come up with was to render the form, then parse the result with BeautifulSoup to get all the values of the inputs and selects. Something like:

from BeautifulSoup import BeautifulSoup
myform = MyForm()
rendered_form = myform.as_p()
soup = BeautifulSoup(rendered_form)
values = {}
for input in soup.findAll('input'):
    value = input.get('value')
    if value:
        values[input['name']] = value
for select in soup.findAll('select'):
    selected = select.find(selected='selected')
    if selected:
        values[select['name']] = selected['value']