Fix data and params handling to be inline with prawcore

CHANGES.rst

@@ -4,6 +4,16 @@ Change Log
 asyncprawcore follows `semantic versioning <http://semver.org/>`_ with the exception
 that deprecations will not be announced by a minor release.
 
+1.5.0 (2020-09-28)
+------------------
+
+**Fixed**
+
+* When passing a ``None`` value for a key in ``data`` it is not dropped like it is in
+  ``prawcore`` with ``requests`` package.
+* When passing a bool or ``None`` value for a key in ``params`` it is not dropped like
+  it is in ``prawcore`` with ``requests`` package.
+
 1.4.0.post2 (2020-07-12)
 ------------------------
 

asyncprawcore/sessions.py

@@ -310,11 +310,21 @@ async def request(
 
         """
         params = deepcopy(params) or {}
+        if params:
+            # this is to ensure consistency with prawcore as requests accepts bool
+            # params while aiohttp does not
+            new_params = {}
+            for k, v in params.items():
+                if isinstance(v, bool):
+                    new_params[k] = str(v).lower()
+                elif v is not None:
+                    new_params[k] = v
+            params = new_params
         params["raw_json"] = 1
+        data = self.validate_data_files(data, files)
         if isinstance(json, dict):
             json = deepcopy(json)
             json["api_type"] = "json"
-        data = self.validate_data_files(data, files)
         url = urljoin(self._requestor.oauth_url, path)
         return await self._request_with_retries(
             data=data,
@@ -329,18 +339,24 @@ async def request(
     def validate_data_files(data, files):
         """Transfers the files and data from the arguments into the data.
 
-        This is done to maintain consistency with prawcore :param data dictionary of
-        data :param files dictionary of "file" mapped to file-stream
+        This is done to maintain consistency with prawcore
+
+        :param data dictionary of data
+        :param files dictionary of "file" mapped to file-stream
 
         """
         if isinstance(data, dict):
             data = deepcopy(data)
-            data["api_type"] = "json"
+            # this is to ensure consistency with prawcore as requests drop keys who's
+            # values are None
+            new_data = {}
+            for k, v in data.items():
+                if v is not None:
+                    new_data[k] = v
+            new_data["api_type"] = "json"
             if files is not None:
                 data.update(files)
-            data = sorted(data.items())
-        if isinstance(files, dict):
-            data = files
+            data = sorted(new_data.items())
         return data