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63 changes: 50 additions & 13 deletions gitlab/client.py
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Expand Up @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@

import os
import time
import warnings
from typing import Any, cast, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, TYPE_CHECKING, Union

import requests
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def _check_redirects(self, result: requests.Response) -> None:
# Check the requests history to detect 301/302 redirections.
# If the initial verb is POST or PUT, the redirected request will use a
# If the initial method is POST or PUT, the redirected request will use a
# GET request, leading to unwanted behaviour.
# If we detect a redirection with a POST or a PUT request, we
# raise an exception with a useful error message.
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obey_rate_limit: bool = True,
max_retries: int = 10,
**kwargs: Any,
) -> requests.Response:
warnings.warn(
"The Gitlab.http_request() method is deprecated and will be removed in a "
"future version. This is a private method and should not be used.",
DeprecationWarning,
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One thing about this method is that it provides a way for users to do stuff we haven't implemented (or perhaps even won't, if it's super specific). So I would maybe not be so strict about "should not be used". I would maybe say that API stability can't be guaranteed or something similar.

Edit: I've now checked a bit, because I was thinking the same that we should hide a bit more of the interface. But when looking at the original author's initial implementation, I think this might have been a deliberate choice and the distinction was more of a higher vs. lower-level API. At least what I can see from the commit message and how it was done with other private methods that were not meant to be consumed, see: c5ad540.

Multiple goals:

  • Support making direct queries to the Gitlab server, without objects
    and managers.

So I've started working on some docs to cover use cases here: #1846
It's a rough draft just for discussion on this, the wording and terminology is probably off and obviously "high/mid/low" can be changed to include "internal" or so.. but I think at least we should not take something away completely, unless we can cover those use cases in other ways. :)

Some use cases I vaguely remember from issues include using HEAD to check file existence/size, getting headers from the server's response, and so on. I documented some of that.

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I agree with @nejch here. It's also useful for new functionality in the GitLab API.

So let's tone the message down a bit.

)
return self._http_request(
method=verb,
path=path,
query_data=query_data,
post_data=post_data,
raw=raw,
streamed=streamed,
files=files,
timeout=timeout,
obey_rate_limit=obey_rate_limit,
max_retries=max_retries,
**kwargs,
)

def _http_request(
self,
*,
method: str,
path: str,
query_data: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
post_data: Optional[Union[Dict[str, Any], bytes]] = None,
raw: bool = False,
streamed: bool = False,
files: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
timeout: Optional[float] = None,
obey_rate_limit: bool = True,
max_retries: int = 10,
**kwargs: Any,
) -> requests.Response:
"""Make an HTTP request to the Gitlab server.

Args:
verb: The HTTP method to call ('get', 'post', 'put', 'delete')
method: The HTTP method to call ('get', 'post', 'put', 'delete')
path: Path or full URL to query ('/projects' or
'http://whatever/v4/api/projecs')
query_data: Data to send as query parameters
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -678,7 +713,7 @@ def http_request(
cur_retries = 0
while True:
result = self.session.request(
method=verb,
method=method,
url=url,
json=json,
data=data,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -758,8 +793,8 @@ def http_get(
GitlabParsingError: If the json data could not be parsed
"""
query_data = query_data or {}
result = self.http_request(
"get", path, query_data=query_data, streamed=streamed, **kwargs
result = self._http_request(
method="get", path=path, query_data=query_data, streamed=streamed, **kwargs
)

if (
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -855,9 +890,9 @@ def http_post(
query_data = query_data or {}
post_data = post_data or {}

result = self.http_request(
"post",
path,
result = self._http_request(
method="post",
path=path,
query_data=query_data,
post_data=post_data,
files=files,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -903,9 +938,9 @@ def http_put(
query_data = query_data or {}
post_data = post_data or {}

result = self.http_request(
"put",
path,
result = self._http_request(
method="put",
path=path,
query_data=query_data,
post_data=post_data,
files=files,
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -933,7 +968,7 @@ def http_delete(self, path: str, **kwargs: Any) -> requests.Response:
Raises:
GitlabHttpError: When the return code is not 2xx
"""
return self.http_request("delete", path, **kwargs)
return self._http_request(method="delete", path=path, **kwargs)

@gitlab.exceptions.on_http_error(gitlab.exceptions.GitlabSearchError)
def search(
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -987,7 +1022,9 @@ def _query(
self, url: str, query_data: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None, **kwargs: Any
) -> None:
query_data = query_data or {}
result = self._gl.http_request("get", url, query_data=query_data, **kwargs)
result = self._gl._http_request(
method="get", path=url, query_data=query_data, **kwargs
)
try:
links = result.links
if links:
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42 changes: 34 additions & 8 deletions tests/unit/test_gitlab_http_methods.py
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import warnings

import pytest
import requests
from httmock import HTTMock, response, urlmatch
Expand All @@ -22,11 +24,31 @@ def resp_cont(url, request):
return response(200, content, headers, None, 5, request)

with HTTMock(resp_cont):
http_r = gl.http_request("get", "/projects")
http_r = gl._http_request(method="get", path="/projects")
http_r.json()
assert http_r.status_code == 200


def test_http_request_deprecated(gl):
@urlmatch(scheme="http", netloc="localhost", path="/api/v4/projects", method="get")
def resp_cont(url, request):
headers = {"content-type": "application/json"}
content = '[{"name": "project1"}]'
return response(200, content, headers, None, 5, request)

with warnings.catch_warnings(record=True) as caught_warnings:
with HTTMock(resp_cont):
http_r = gl.http_request(verb="get", path="/projects")
http_r.json()
assert http_r.status_code == 200
assert len(caught_warnings) == 1
warning = caught_warnings[0]
assert isinstance(warning.message, DeprecationWarning)
message = str(caught_warnings[0].message)
assert "deprecated" in message
assert "Gitlab.http_request()" in message


def test_http_request_404(gl):
@urlmatch(scheme="http", netloc="localhost", path="/api/v4/not_there", method="get")
def resp_cont(url, request):
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with HTTMock(resp_cont):
with pytest.raises(GitlabHttpError):
gl.http_request("get", "/not_there")
gl._http_request(method="get", path="/not_there")


@pytest.mark.parametrize("status_code", [500, 502, 503, 504])
Expand All @@ -50,7 +72,7 @@ def resp_cont(url, request):

with HTTMock(resp_cont):
with pytest.raises(GitlabHttpError):
gl.http_request("get", "/projects")
gl._http_request(method="get", path="/projects")

assert call_count == 1

Expand All @@ -74,7 +96,9 @@ def resp_cont(url, request):
)

with HTTMock(resp_cont):
http_r = gl.http_request("get", "/projects", retry_transient_errors=True)
http_r = gl._http_request(
method="get", path="/projects", retry_transient_errors=True
)

assert http_r.status_code == 200
assert call_count == calls_before_success
Expand All @@ -99,7 +123,7 @@ def resp_cont(url, request):
)

with HTTMock(resp_cont):
http_r = gl_retry.http_request("get", "/projects")
http_r = gl_retry._http_request(method="get", path="/projects")

assert http_r.status_code == 200
assert call_count == calls_before_success
Expand All @@ -118,7 +142,9 @@ def resp_cont(url, request):

with HTTMock(resp_cont):
with pytest.raises(GitlabHttpError):
gl_retry.http_request("get", "/projects", retry_transient_errors=False)
gl_retry._http_request(
method="get", path="/projects", retry_transient_errors=False
)

assert call_count == 1

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return resp_obj

with HTTMock(resp_cont):
gl.http_request(verb=method, path=api_path)
gl._http_request(method=method, path=api_path)


def test_http_request_302_put_raises_redirect_error(gl):
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with HTTMock(resp_cont):
with pytest.raises(RedirectError) as exc:
gl.http_request(verb=method, path=api_path)
gl._http_request(method=method, path=api_path)
error_message = exc.value.error_message
assert "Moved Temporarily" in error_message
assert "http://localhost/api/v4/user/status" in error_message
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