def load_xml(self):
"""
fetches a copy of the response XML provided by the discogs
api. See here http://www.discogs.com/help/api for docs.
"""
print 'request: ' + self.url
request = urllib2.Request(self.url)
request = utils.req_add_headers(request)
try:
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
data = response.read()
relxml = minidom.parseString(gzip.GzipFile(fileobj = \
cStringIO.StringIO(data)).read())
except Exception:
try:
# retrying to get the XML, but treating the result as plain text,
# not gzipped
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
data = response.read()
relxml = minidom.parseString(data)
except Exception:
sys.stderr.write(("err: unable to obtain Discogs release id%s\n")
% self.relId)
sys.exit(1)
return relxml
def loadXml(self):
"""
fetches a copy of discogs xml for further processing
"""
request = urllib2.Request(self.url)
request = utils.req_add_headers(request)
try:
response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
data = response.read()
axml = minidom.parseString(gzip.GzipFile(fileobj =\
cStringIO.StringIO(data)).read())
except IOError:
axml = minidom.parseString(data)
except Exception:
sys.stderr.write(u"err: unable to fetch artist \"%s\"" %\
self.discogsName.decode('utf-8')\
+\
u" information from discogs db\n")
sys.exit(1)
return axml
