Support using AnymailMessage with django-mailer

Make UNSET preserve its identity across pickling. (Also make its repr
mention "unset", to simplify interpretting stack traces.)

Fixes #147.

CHANGELOG.rst

@@ -25,6 +25,18 @@ Release history
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     ..  This extra heading level keeps the ToC from becoming unmanageably long
 
+vNext
+-----
+
+*Unreleased changes on master*
+
+Fixes
+~~~~~
+
+* Support using `AnymailMessage` with django-mailer and similar packages that pickle
+  messages. (See `#147`_. Thanks to `@ewingrj`_ for identifying the problem.)
+
+
 v6.0
 ----
 
@@ -928,11 +940,13 @@ Features
 .. _#111: https://github.com/anymail/issues/111
 .. _#112: https://github.com/anymail/issues/112
 .. _#115: https://github.com/anymail/issues/115
+.. _#147: https://github.com/anymail/issues/147
 
 .. _@ailionx: https://github.com/ailionx
 .. _@calvin: https://github.com/calvin
 .. _@costela: https://github.com/costela
 .. _@decibyte: https://github.com/decibyte
+.. _@ewingrj: https://github.com/ewingrj
 .. _@janneThoft: https://github.com/janneThoft
 .. _@joshkersey: https://github.com/joshkersey
 .. _@Lekensteyn: https://github.com/Lekensteyn

anymail/utils.py

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ from .exceptions import AnymailConfigurationError, AnymailInvalidAddress
 BASIC_NUMERIC_TYPES = six.integer_types + (float,)  # int, float, and (on Python 2) long
 
 
-UNSET = object()  # Used as non-None default value
+UNSET = type('UNSET', (object,), {})  # Used as non-None default value
 
 
 def combine(*args):

tests/test_utils.py

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 # Tests for the anymail/utils.py module
 # (not to be confused with utilities for testing found in in tests/utils.py)
 import base64
+import copy
+import pickle
 from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
 from unittest import skipIf
 
@@ -24,7 +26,7 @@ from anymail.utils import (
     parse_address_list, parse_single_address, EmailAddress,
     Attachment,
     is_lazy, force_non_lazy, force_non_lazy_dict, force_non_lazy_list,
-    update_deep,
+    update_deep, UNSET,
     get_request_uri, get_request_basic_auth, parse_rfc2822date, querydict_getfirst,
     CaseInsensitiveCasePreservingDict)
 
@@ -441,3 +443,30 @@ class CaseInsensitiveCasePreservingDictTests(SimpleTestCase):
 
     # The base CaseInsensitiveDict functionality is well-tested in Requests,
     # so we don't repeat it here.
+
+
+class UnsetValueTests(SimpleTestCase):
+    """Tests for the UNSET sentinel value"""
+
+    def test_not_other_values(self):
+        self.assertIsNot(UNSET, None)
+        self.assertIsNot(UNSET, False)
+        self.assertNotEqual(UNSET, 0)
+        self.assertNotEqual(UNSET, "")
+
+    def test_unset_survives_pickle(self):
+        # Required for using AnymailMessage with django-mailer
+        pickled = pickle.dumps(UNSET)
+        self.assertIs(pickle.loads(pickled), UNSET)
+
+    def test_unset_survives_copy(self):
+        self.assertIs(copy.copy(UNSET), UNSET)
+        self.assertIs(copy.deepcopy(UNSET), UNSET)
+
+    def test_unset_has_useful_repr(self):
+        # (something better than '<object object at ...>')
+        self.assertIn("UNSET", repr(UNSET))
+
+    def test_equality(self):
+        # `is UNSET` is preferred to `== UNSET`, but both should work
+        self.assertEqual(UNSET, UNSET)