POST being redirected to GET during testing

Using Django
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I’m trying to create a unit test for a POST request. If I don’t allow the request to follow, I get a 302 with the URL pointing to the same URL I’m trying to post to. If I do allow the request to follow it is redirected to the view I’m trying to hit but loses all data and becomes a GET request.

Here is my unit test:

import uuid

from django.contrib.auth import get_user
from django.contrib.auth.models import User
from django.urls import reverse
from rest_framework.test import APITestCase, force_authenticate


class MeetingChatAPITest(APITestCase):
    USERNAME = "test_username"
    EMAIL = "a@b.com"
    PASSWORD = "password"

    def setUp(self):
        self.user = User.objects.get(username=self.USERNAME)

    def test_meeting_chat_with_text_input(self):
        url = "/meeting-chat/"

        request_payload = {
                "foo": "bar"
        }

        self.asertTrue(self.client.login(username=self.USERNAME, password=self.PASSWORD))

        response = self.client.post(url, request_payload, format="json", follow=True)

        self.assertEqual(response.status_code, 200)

And my urls:

# core.urls

app_name = 'core'

urlpatterns = [
    path('meeting-chat/', chat_meeting, name='meeting_chat'),
]

# <project>urls

urlpatterns = [

    path('', include('core.urls')),
]

And my view function:

@login_required
@require_POST
@csrf_exempt
def chat_meeting(request):
    try:
        payload = json.loads(request.body.decode('utf-8'))
    except json.JSONDecodeError:
        return JsonResponse({'error': 'Invalid JSON'}, status=400)  # This line is only hit if I do follow=True on the request and remove the @require_POST decoration