- Trying to use an HTTP method name string such as ``GET`` as a

  ``request_type`` predicate caused a startup time failure when it was
  encountered in imperative configuration or in a decorator (symptom:
  ``Type Error: Required specification must be a specification``).
  This now works again, although ``request_method`` is a more modern
  predicate.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/repoze/bfg/configuration.py b/repoze/bfg/configuration.py
index c37ed2c72..4d7e8dd57 100644
--- a/repoze/bfg/configuration.py
+++ b/repoze/bfg/configuration.py
@@ -547,6 +547,11 @@ class Configurator(object):
                 raise ConfigurationError('"view" was not specified and '
                                          'no "renderer" specified')
 
+        if request_type in ('GET', 'HEAD', 'PUT', 'POST', 'DELETE'):
+            # b/w compat for 1.0
+            request_method = request_type
+            request_type = None
+
         if request_type and route_name:
             raise ConfigurationError(
                 'A view cannot be configured with both the request_type and '