def request(self, r, params={}, answers=1):
"""Make a request to the DAAP server, with the passed params. This
deals with all the cikiness like validation hashes, etc, etc"""
# this returns an HTTP response object
response = self._get_response(r, params)
status = response.status
content = response.read()
# if we got gzipped data base, gunzip it.
if response.getheader("Content-Encoding") == "gzip":
log.debug("gunzipping data")
old_len = len(content)
compressedstream = StringIO(content)
import gzip
gunzipper = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=compressedstream)
content = gunzipper.read()
log.debug("expanded from %s bytes to %s bytes", old_len, len(content))
# close this, we're done with it
response.close()
if status == 401:
raise DAAPError('DAAPClient: %s: auth required' % r)
elif status == 403:
raise DAAPError('DAAPClient: %s: Authentication failure' % r)
elif status == 503:
raise DAAPError(
'DAAPClient: %s: 503 - probably max connections to server' % r
)
elif status == 204:
# no content, ie logout messages
return None
elif status != 200:
raise DAAPError(
'DAAPClient: %s: Error %s making request' % (r, response.status)
)
return self.readResponse(content)
def connect(self, hostname, port=3689, password=None):
if self.socket is not None:
raise DAAPError("DAAPClient: already connected.")
# if ':' in hostname:
# raise DAAPError('cannot connect to ipv6 addresses')
# if it's an ipv6 address
if ':' in hostname and hostname[0] != '[':
hostname = '[' + hostname + ']'
self.hostname = hostname
self.port = port
self.password = password
# self.socket = httplib.HTTPConnection(hostname, port)
self.socket = httplib.HTTPConnection(hostname + ':' + str(port))
self.getContentCodes() # practically required
self.getInfo() # to determine the remote server version