Test django view which has post request - django

Question

I am trying to test my django views which contain post request.
def save_movie(request):
'''
Fetch data and save to Movie model
data obtained from post request is a string so need to clean it and convert to json
'''
if request.method == 'POST':
movie_data = str(request.POST['movie_data'])
movie_data = movie_data.replace("\'","\"")
b=""
for i in range(len(movie_data)):
if movie_data[i] is "\"" and movie_data[i-1].isalpha() and movie_data[i+1].isalpha():
b+="\'"
else:
b+=movie_data[i]
json_data = json.loads(b)
new_movie, created = Movie.objects.get_or_create(title=json_data['title'], episode_id=int(json_data['episode_id']), opening_crawl=json_data['opening_crawl'], director=json_data['director'], producer=json_data['producer'], release_date=json_data['release_date'], characters=str(json_data['characters']), planets=str(json_data['planets']), starships=str(json_data['starships']), vehicles=str(json_data['vehicles']), species=str(json_data['species']), created=parse_datetime(json_data['created']), edited=parse_datetime(json_data['edited']), url=json_data['url'])
if created:
new_movie.save()
return HttpResponse('<h1>Movie Saved</h1>')
else:
return HttpResponse('<h1>Movie already Saved</h1>')
and test.py is
def test_save_movie(self):
response = self.client.post(self.save_movie_url, {'title':'test', 'episode_id':1, 'opening_crawl':'test for movie', 'director':'director', 'producer':'producer', 'release_date':'test_date', 'characters':'test_chars', 'planets':'test_planets', 'starships':'test_starships', 'vehicles':'str_vehicles', 'species':'str_species', 'created':'2014-12-09T13:50:49.641000Z', 'edited':'2015-12-09T13:50:49.641000Z', 'url':'https://test.com'})
print(response.status_code)
when i run this testcase i get MultiValueDictError
File "/home/abhishek/Desktop/SpotDraft/StarWars/favourites/tests/test_views.py", line 58, in test_save_movie
response = self.client.post(self.save_movie_url, {'title':'test', 'episode_id':1, 'opening_crawl':'test for movie', 'director':'director', 'producer':'producer', 'release_date':'test_date', 'characters':'test_chars', 'planets':'test_planets', 'starships':'test_starships', 'vehicles':'str_vehicles', 'species':'str_species', 'created':'2014-12-09T13:50:49.641000Z', 'edited':'2015-12-09T13:50:49.641000Z', 'url':'https://test.com'})
File "/home/abhishek/Desktop/SpotDraft/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/test/client.py", line 526, in post
response = super().post(path, data=data, content_type=content_type, secure=secure, **extra)
File "/home/abhishek/Desktop/SpotDraft/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/test/client.py", line 356, in post
secure=secure, **extra)
File "/home/abhishek/Desktop/SpotDraft/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/test/client.py", line 421, in generic
return self.request(**r)
File "/home/abhishek/Desktop/SpotDraft/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/test/client.py", line 496, in request
raise exc_value
File "/home/abhishek/Desktop/SpotDraft/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/exception.py", line 34, in inner
response = get_response(request)
File "/home/abhishek/Desktop/SpotDraft/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 115, in _get_response
response = self.process_exception_by_middleware(e, request)
File "/home/abhishek/Desktop/SpotDraft/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 113, in _get_response
response = wrapped_callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)
File "/home/abhishek/Desktop/SpotDraft/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/views/decorators/csrf.py", line 54, in wrapped_view
return view_func(*args, **kwargs)
File "/home/abhishek/Desktop/SpotDraft/StarWars/favourites/views.py", line 109, in save_movie
movie_data = str(request.POST['movie_data'])
File "/home/abhishek/Desktop/SpotDraft/env/lib/python3.7/site-packages/django/utils/datastructures.py", line 78, in __getitem__
raise MultiValueDictKeyError(key)
django.utils.datastructures.MultiValueDictKeyError: 'movie_data'
It seems it cant find movie_data which should be present in my post request as the view extracts it from there
How to solve this?