client Module

class restkit.client.Client(follow_redirect=False, force_follow_redirect=False, max_follow_redirect=5, filters=None, decompress=True, max_status_line_garbage=None, max_header_count=0, pool=None, response_class=None, timeout=None, use_proxy=False, max_tries=3, wait_tries=0.3, pool_size=10, backend='thread', **ssl_args)

Bases: object

A client handle a connection at a time. A client is threadsafe, but an handled shouldn’t be shared between threads. All connections are shared between threads via a pool.

>>> from restkit import *
>>> c = Client()
>>> r = c.request("http://google.com")
>>> r.status
'301 Moved Permanently'
>>> r.body_string()
'<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="content-type [...]'
>>> c.follow_redirect = True
>>> r = c.request("http://google.com")
>>> r.status
'200 OK'
get_connection(request)

get a connection from the pool or create new one.

get_response(request, connection)

return final respons, it is only accessible via peform method

load_filters()

Populate filters from self.filters. Must be called each time self.filters is updated.

make_headers_string(request, extra_headers=None)

create final header string

perform(request)

perform the request. If an error happen it will first try to restart it

proxy_connection(request, req_addr, is_ssl)

do the proxy connection

redirect(location, request)

reset request, set new url of request and perform it

request(url, method='GET', body=None, headers=None)

perform immediatly a new request

response_class

alias of Response

version = (1, 1)