class HTTPClient(object):
"""A blocking HTTP client.
This interface is provided for convenience and testing; most applications
that are running an IOLoop will want to use `AsyncHTTPClient` instead.
Typical usage looks like this::
http_client = httpclient.HTTPClient()
try:
response = http_client.fetch("http://www.google.com/")
print response.body
except httpclient.HTTPError as e:
print "Error:", e
http_client.close()
"""
def __init__(self, async_client_class=None, **kwargs):
self._io_loop = IOLoop()
if async_client_class is None:
async_client_class = AsyncHTTPClient
self._async_client = async_client_class(self._io_loop, **kwargs)
self._closed = False
def __del__(self):
self.close()
def close(self):
"""Closes the HTTPClient, freeing any resources used."""
if not self._closed:
self._async_client.close()
self._io_loop.close()
self._closed = True
def fetch(self, request, **kwargs):
"""Executes a request, returning an `HTTPResponse`.
The request may be either a string URL or an `HTTPRequest` object.
If it is a string, we construct an `HTTPRequest` using any additional
kwargs: ``HTTPRequest(request, **kwargs)``
If an error occurs during the fetch, we raise an `HTTPError`.
"""
response = self._io_loop.run_sync(functools.partial(
self._async_client.fetch, request, **kwargs))
response.rethrow()
return response
class TestIOLoopRunSync(unittest.TestCase):
def setUp(self):
self.io_loop = IOLoop()
def tearDown(self):
self.io_loop.close()
def test_sync_result(self):
self.assertEqual(self.io_loop.run_sync(lambda: 42), 42)
def test_sync_exception(self):
with self.assertRaises(ZeroDivisionError):
self.io_loop.run_sync(lambda: 1 / 0)
def test_async_result(self):
@gen.coroutine
def f():
yield gen.Task(self.io_loop.add_callback)
raise gen.Return(42)
self.assertEqual(self.io_loop.run_sync(f), 42)
def test_async_exception(self):
@gen.coroutine
def f():
yield gen.Task(self.io_loop.add_callback)
1 / 0
with self.assertRaises(ZeroDivisionError):
self.io_loop.run_sync(f)
def test_current(self):
def f():
self.assertIs(IOLoop.current(), self.io_loop)
self.io_loop.run_sync(f)
def test_timeout(self):
@gen.coroutine
def f():
yield gen.Task(self.io_loop.add_timeout, self.io_loop.time() + 1)
self.assertRaises(TimeoutError, self.io_loop.run_sync, f, timeout=0.01)
