nilmdb/nilmdb/client/httpclient.py

"""HTTP client library"""

import nilmdb.utils
from nilmdb.client.errors import ClientError, ServerError, Error

import simplejson as json
import urlparse
import requests

class HTTPClient(object):
    """Class to manage and perform HTTP requests from the client"""
    def __init__(self, baseurl = "", post_json = False):
        """If baseurl is supplied, all other functions that take
        a URL can be given a relative URL instead."""
        # Verify / clean up URL
        reparsed = urlparse.urlparse(baseurl).geturl()
        if '://' not in reparsed:
            reparsed = urlparse.urlparse("http://" + baseurl).geturl()
        self.baseurl = reparsed.rstrip('/') + '/'

        # Build Requests session object, enable SSL verification
        self.session = requests.Session()
        self.session.verify = True

        # Saved response, so that tests can verify a few things.
        self._last_response = {}

        # Whether to send application/json POST bodies (versus
        # x-www-form-urlencoded)
        self.post_json = post_json

    def _handle_error(self, url, code, body):
        # Default variables for exception.  We use the entire body as
        # the default message, in case we can't extract it from a JSON
        # response.
        args = { "url" : url,
                 "status" : str(code),
                 "message" : body,
                 "traceback" : None }
        try:
            # Fill with server-provided data if we can
            jsonerror = json.loads(body)
            args["status"] = jsonerror["status"]
            args["message"] = jsonerror["message"]
            args["traceback"] = jsonerror["traceback"]
        except Exception: # pragma: no cover
            pass
        if code >= 400 and code <= 499:
            raise ClientError(**args)
        else: # pragma: no cover
            if code >= 500 and code <= 599:
                if args["message"] is None:
                    args["message"] = ("(no message; try disabling " +
                                       "response.stream option in " +
                                       "nilmdb.server for better debugging)")
                raise ServerError(**args)
            else:
                raise Error(**args)

    def close(self):
        self.session.close()

    def _do_req(self, method, url, query_data, body_data, stream, headers):
        url = urlparse.urljoin(self.baseurl, url)
        try:
            response = self.session.request(method, url,
                                            params = query_data,
                                            data = body_data,
                                            stream = stream,
                                            headers = headers)
        except requests.RequestException as e:
            raise ServerError(status = "502 Error", url = url,
                              message = str(e.message))
        if response.status_code != 200:
            self._handle_error(url, response.status_code, response.content)
        self._last_response = response
        if response.headers["content-type"] in ("application/json",
                                                "application/x-json-stream"):
            return (response, True)
        else:
            return (response, False)

    # Normal versions that return data directly
    def _req(self, method, url, query = None, body = None, headers = None):
        """
        Make a request and return the body data as a string or parsed
        JSON object, or raise an error if it contained an error.
        """
        (response, isjson) = self._do_req(method, url, query, body,
                                          stream = False, headers = headers)
        if isjson:
            return json.loads(response.content)
        return response.content

    def get(self, url, params = None):
        """Simple GET (parameters in URL)"""
        return self._req("GET", url, params, None)

    def post(self, url, params = None):
        """Simple POST (parameters in body)"""
        if self.post_json:
            return self._req("POST", url, None,
                             json.dumps(params),
                             { 'Content-type': 'application/json' })
        else:
            return self._req("POST", url, None, params)

    def put(self, url, data, params = None):
        """Simple PUT (parameters in URL, data in body)"""
        return self._req("PUT", url, params, data)

    # Generator versions that return data one line at a time.
    def _req_gen(self, method, url, query = None, body = None,
                 headers = None, binary = False):
        """
        Make a request and return a generator that gives back strings
        or JSON decoded lines of the body data, or raise an error if
        it contained an eror.
        """
        (response, isjson) = self._do_req(method, url, query, body,
                                          stream = True, headers = headers)
        if binary:
            for chunk in response.iter_content(chunk_size = 65536):
                yield chunk
        elif isjson:
            for line in response.iter_lines():
                yield json.loads(line)
        else:
            for line in response.iter_lines():
                yield line

    def get_gen(self, url, params = None, binary = False):
        """Simple GET (parameters in URL) returning a generator"""
        return self._req_gen("GET", url, params, binary = binary)

    # Not much use for a POST or PUT generator, since they don't
    # return much data.