Source code for libcloud.utils.connection

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from libcloud.utils.py3 import urlparse, parse_qs
from libcloud.common.base import Connection

__all__ = [
    'get_response_object'
]


[docs]def get_response_object(url, method='GET', headers=None): """ Utility function which uses libcloud's connection class to issue an HTTP request. :param url: URL to send the request to. :type url: ``str`` :param method: HTTP method. :type method: ``str`` :param headers: Optional request headers. :type headers: ``dict`` :return: Response object. :rtype: :class:`Response`. """ parsed_url = urlparse.urlparse(url) parsed_qs = parse_qs(parsed_url.query) secure = parsed_url.scheme == 'https' headers = headers or {} method = method.upper() con = Connection(secure=secure, host=parsed_url.netloc) response = con.request(action=parsed_url.path, params=parsed_qs, headers=headers, method=method) return response