The Request class

class pyspacegdn.requests.Request(spacegdn)

A generic request to SpaceGDN.

This class provides a base to build other request classes on, it can also be used on its own for very simple requests.

Request classes that build on this one should just use this class’s methods to set the path, GET and/or POST parameters. The fetch method can then be used to fetch the results.

Headers are handled autmatically. The request type is guessed by looking at the POST parameters. If there are no POST parameters, a GET request will be carried out when fetch is called.

All methods will return self.

Methods:

set_path()

Set the path to query

add_post_param()

Add a HTTP POST parameter

add_get_param()

Add a HTTP GET parameter

Request.fetch()

Fetch the result.

Attributes:

spacegdn

The pyspacegdn.SpaceGDN instance used to create this request

__init__(spacegdn)

Instantiate a new Request.

This should only be called by classes, functions or modules in pySpaceGDN.

add_get_param(key, value)

Add a HTTP GET parameter.

Arguments:

key

The key for the parameter

value

The value of the parameter

add_post_param(key, value)

Add a HTTP POST parameter.

Arguments:

key

The key for the parameter

value

The value of the parameter

fetch()

Execute the request and fetch the result.

The result will be returned as a pyspacegdn.Response object.

set_path(path)

Set the path this request will query.

The path should not start with a forward-slash, unless the resulting URL is intended to be http://endpoint.example//path.

Arguments:

path

The path this request should query