Allow controllers to return an explicit `webob.Response` object.

Change-Id: I5e827eed73962a0a6f5d879224759a4d13888751

2 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/pecan/core.py b/pecan/core.py
index 76fc975..6a096b5 100644
--- a/pecan/core.py
+++ b/pecan/core.py
@@ -519,6 +519,9 @@ class Pecan(object):
         # care of filling it out
         if result is response:
             return
+        elif isinstance(result, Response):
+            state.response = result
+            return
 
         raw_namespace = result
 
diff --git a/pecan/tests/test_base.py b/pecan/tests/test_base.py
index 050ac6d..f4bd64b 100644
--- a/pecan/tests/test_base.py
+++ b/pecan/tests/test_base.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ if sys.version_info < (2, 7):
 else:
     import unittest  # pragma: nocover
 
+import webob
 from webtest import TestApp
 import six
 from six import b as b_
@@ -937,6 +938,22 @@ class TestStreamedResponse(PecanTestCase):
         assert r.body == b_('plain text')
 
 
+class TestManualResponse(PecanTestCase):
+
+    def test_manual_response(self):
+
+        class RootController(object):
+            @expose()
+            def index(self):
+                resp = webob.Response(response.environ)
+                resp.body = b_('Hello, World!')
+                return resp
+
+        app = TestApp(Pecan(RootController()))
+        r = app.get('/')
+        assert r.body == b_('Hello, World!')
+
+
 class TestThreadLocalState(PecanTestCase):
 
     def test_thread_local_dir(self):