Several internal improvements:

* New events:
  - ConfirmationNeededEvent is triggered when a pendable requiring
    confirmation is created.  This allows us to define an event handler for
    this event which sends the user notification.
  - SubscriptionEvent is triggered when a member is added to a mailing list.
    This lets us define an event handler which sends the welcome message.
* send_welcome_message() now takes a member parameter instead of an address,
  which lets us directly access the member's delivery mode and user display
  name (if the member has a user, which it might not in some cases).
* Use the list id in the pendable record instead of the list name for
  robustness (the latter can change but the former is permanent).
* Test more registration conditions.
* In the bin/runner command line switch handling, default `verbose` to None
  instead of False.  This makes it work better with nose's -E switch (log to
  stderr).
* In call_api(), if a POST, PUT, or PATCH method is used and data is None,
  encode the empty dictionary; seems like the behavior of urlencode() has
  changed, so this is safer.
* Fix style and pyflakes warnings.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/mailman/testing/helpers.py b/src/mailman/testing/helpers.py
index 24a7692ae..1ef9e964e 100644
--- a/src/mailman/testing/helpers.py
+++ b/src/mailman/testing/helpers.py
@@ -327,6 +327,8 @@ def call_api(url, data=None, method=None, username=None, password=None):
         else:
             method = 'POST'
     method = method.upper()
+    if method in ('POST', 'PUT', 'PATCH') and data is None:
+        data = urlencode({}, doseq=True)
     basic_auth = '{0}:{1}'.format(
         (config.webservice.admin_user if username is None else username),
         (config.webservice.admin_pass if password is None else password))