From 2ee2affc3a4ecefb96a24786c5527bf0550270fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bogdan Tishenko <95874565+Tezlaa@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 18:00:05 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] Update api.py. Add validation on the status code 204. (#569)

If the status code is 204 (no content), return an empty dict for the content
---
 {{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/src/app/testing/api.py | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/src/app/testing/api.py b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/src/app/testing/api.py
index f9d66ae2..3f65376a 100644
--- a/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/src/app/testing/api.py
+++ b/{{cookiecutter.project_slug}}/src/app/testing/api.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 from rest_framework.authtoken.models import Token
 from rest_framework.test import APIClient as DRFAPIClient
+from rest_framework.response import Response
 
 from users.models import User
 
@@ -58,7 +59,10 @@ def _request(self, method, expected, *args, **kwargs):
         assert response.status_code == expected, content
         return content
 
-    def _decode(self, response):
+    def _decode(self, response: Response):
+        if response.status_code == 204:
+            return {}
+        
         content = response.content.decode("utf-8", errors="ignore")
 
         if self.is_json(response):
@@ -67,7 +71,7 @@ def _decode(self, response):
             return content
 
     @staticmethod
-    def is_json(response) -> bool:
+    def is_json(response: Response) -> bool:
         if response.has_header("content-type"):
             return "json" in response.get("content-type")