Well as per title, APIRequestFactory() returns a WSGI request object. This means that it doesn't have a .data attribute.

The quick solution that google shows is to wrap it in a Request object. However if we do something like:

factory = APIRequestFactory()
request = factory.post('', {'title': 'new idea'}) # no path is relevant, we do not use it in our tests, just the data.
drf_request = Request(request)
print(drf_request.data)

We get the following error:
raise exceptions.UnsupportedMediaType(media_type)

And debugging shows that the parsers (list) is empty.