refactor: issue2551289. invalid REST Accept header stops request Sending a POST, PUT (maybe PATCH) with an accept header that is not application/json or xml (if enabled) used to complete the request before throwing a 406 error. This was wrong. Now it reports an error without dispatching/processing the requested transaction. This is the first of a series of refactors of the dispatch method to make it faster and more readable by using return early pattern and extracting methods from the code. changes: The following now return 406 errors not 400 errors invalid version specified with @apiver in URL. invalid version specified with @apiver in payload body invalid version specified in accept headers as application/vnd.roundup.test-vz+json or version property Parsing the accept header returns a 400 when presented with a parameter without an = sign or other parse error. They used to return a 406 which is wrong since the header is malformed rather than having a value I can't respond to. Some error messages were made clearer. Results in the case of an error are proper json error object rather than text/plain strings. New test added for testdetermine_output_formatBadAccept that test the new method using the same test cases as for testDispatchBadAccept. I intend to extend the test coverage for determine_output_format to cover more cases. This should be a faster unit test than for dispatch. Removed .lower() calls for accept_mime_type as the input values are taken from the values in the __accepted_content_type dict which only has lower case values.

"""
The following code was taken from:

    https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/568#issuecomment-216569420

to resolve a bug with using pytest.mark.skip(). Once the bug is resolved in
pytest this file can be removed along with all the wrapper mark_class()
references in the other test files.
"""
import types


def mark_class(marker):
    '''Workaround for https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest/issues/568'''
    def copy_func(f):
        try:
            return types.FunctionType(f.__code__, f.__globals__,
                                      name=f.__name__, argdefs=f.__defaults__,
                                      closure=f.__closure__)
        except AttributeError:
            return types.FunctionType(f.func_code, f.func_globals,
                                      name=f.func_name,
                                      argdefs=f.func_defaults,
                                      closure=f.func_closure)

    def mark(cls):
        if isinstance(cls, types.FunctionType):
            return marker(copy_func(cls))

        for method in dir(cls):
            if method.startswith('test'):
                f = copy_func(getattr(cls, method))
                setattr(cls, method, marker(f))
        return cls
    return mark