HTTP client

Create and execute HTTP requests

Value

Note

A little quirk about crul is that because user agent string can be passed as either a header or a curl option (both lead to a User-Agent header being passed in the HTTP request), we return the user agent string in the request_headers list of the response even if you pass in a useragent string as a curl option. Note that whether you pass in as a header like User-Agent or as a curl option like useragent, it is returned as request_headers$User-Agent so at least accessing it in the request headers is consistent.

R6 classes

This is an R6 class from the package R6. Find out more about R6 at https://r6.r-lib.org/. After creating an instance of an R6 class (e.g., x <- HttpClient$new(url = "https://hb.opencpu.org")) you can access values and methods on the object x.

handles

curl handles are re-used on the level of the connection object, that is, each HttpClient object is separate from one another so as to better separate connections.

If you don't pass in a curl handle to the handle parameter, it gets created when a HTTP verb is called. Thus, if you try to get handle after creating a HttpClient object only passing url parameter, handle will be NULL. If you pass a curl handle to the handle parameter, then you can get the handle from the HttpClient object. The response from a http verb request does have the handle in the handle slot.

Public fields

url: (character) a url
opts: (list) named list of curl options
proxies: a proxy() object
auth: an auth() object
headers: (list) named list of headers, see http-headers
handle: a handle()
progress: only supports httr::progress(), see progress
hooks: a named list, see hooks

Methods

Method `print()`

print method for HttpClient objects

Usage

HttpClient$print(x, ...)

Arguments

x: self
...: ignored

Method `new()`

Create a new HttpClient object

Usage

HttpClient$new(
  url,
  opts,
  proxies,
  auth,
  headers,
  handle,
  progress,
  hooks,
  verbose
)

Arguments

url: (character) A url. One of url or handle required.
opts: any curl options
proxies: a proxy() object
auth: an auth() object
headers: named list of headers, see http-headers
handle: a handle()
progress: only supports httr::progress(), see progress
hooks: a named list, see hooks
verbose: a special handler for verbose curl output, accepts a function only. default is NULL. if used, verbose and debugfunction curl options are ignored if passed to opts on $new() and ignored if ... passed to a http method call
urls: (character) one or more URLs

Returns

A new HttpClient object

Method `get()`

Make a GET request

Usage

HttpClient$get(path = NULL, query = list(), disk = NULL, stream = NULL, ...)

Arguments

path: URL path, appended to the base URL
query: query terms, as a named list. any numeric values are passed through format() to prevent larger numbers from being scientifically formatted
disk: a path to write to. if NULL (default), memory used. See curl::curl_fetch_disk() for help.
stream: an R function to determine how to stream data. if NULL (default), memory used. See curl::curl_fetch_stream() for help
...: For retry, the options to be passed on to the method implementing the requested verb, including curl options. Otherwise, curl options, only those in the acceptable set from curl::curl_options() except the following: httpget, httppost, post, postfields, postfieldsize, and customrequest

Method `post()`

Make a POST request

Usage

HttpClient$post(
  path = NULL,
  query = list(),
  body = NULL,
  disk = NULL,
  stream = NULL,
  encode = "multipart",
  ...
)

Arguments

path: URL path, appended to the base URL
query: query terms, as a named list. any numeric values are passed through format() to prevent larger numbers from being scientifically formatted
body: body as an R list
disk: a path to write to. if NULL (default), memory used. See curl::curl_fetch_disk() for help.
stream: an R function to determine how to stream data. if NULL (default), memory used. See curl::curl_fetch_stream() for help
encode: one of form, multipart, json, or raw
...: For retry, the options to be passed on to the method implementing the requested verb, including curl options. Otherwise, curl options, only those in the acceptable set from curl::curl_options() except the following: httpget, httppost, post, postfields, postfieldsize, and customrequest

Method `put()`

Make a PUT request

Usage

HttpClient$put(
  path = NULL,
  query = list(),
  body = NULL,
  disk = NULL,
  stream = NULL,
  encode = "multipart",
  ...
)

Arguments

path: URL path, appended to the base URL
query: query terms, as a named list. any numeric values are passed through format() to prevent larger numbers from being scientifically formatted
body: body as an R list
disk: a path to write to. if NULL (default), memory used. See curl::curl_fetch_disk() for help.
stream: an R function to determine how to stream data. if NULL (default), memory used. See curl::curl_fetch_stream() for help
encode: one of form, multipart, json, or raw
...: For retry, the options to be passed on to the method implementing the requested verb, including curl options. Otherwise, curl options, only those in the acceptable set from curl::curl_options() except the following: httpget, httppost, post, postfields, postfieldsize, and customrequest

Method `patch()`

Make a PATCH request

Usage

HttpClient$patch(
  path = NULL,
  query = list(),
  body = NULL,
  disk = NULL,
  stream = NULL,
  encode = "multipart",
  ...
)

Arguments

path: URL path, appended to the base URL
query: query terms, as a named list. any numeric values are passed through format() to prevent larger numbers from being scientifically formatted
body: body as an R list
disk: a path to write to. if NULL (default), memory used. See curl::curl_fetch_disk() for help.
stream: an R function to determine how to stream data. if NULL (default), memory used. See curl::curl_fetch_stream() for help
encode: one of form, multipart, json, or raw
...: For retry, the options to be passed on to the method implementing the requested verb, including curl options. Otherwise, curl options, only those in the acceptable set from curl::curl_options() except the following: httpget, httppost, post, postfields, postfieldsize, and customrequest

Method `delete()`

Make a DELETE request

Usage

HttpClient$delete(
  path = NULL,
  query = list(),
  body = NULL,
  disk = NULL,
  stream = NULL,
  encode = "multipart",
  ...
)

Arguments

path: URL path, appended to the base URL
query: query terms, as a named list. any numeric values are passed through format() to prevent larger numbers from being scientifically formatted
body: body as an R list
disk: a path to write to. if NULL (default), memory used. See curl::curl_fetch_disk() for help.
stream: an R function to determine how to stream data. if NULL (default), memory used. See curl::curl_fetch_stream() for help
encode: one of form, multipart, json, or raw
...: For retry, the options to be passed on to the method implementing the requested verb, including curl options. Otherwise, curl options, only those in the acceptable set from curl::curl_options() except the following: httpget, httppost, post, postfields, postfieldsize, and customrequest

Method `head()`

Make a HEAD request

Usage

HttpClient$head(path = NULL, query = list(), ...)

Arguments

path: URL path, appended to the base URL
query: query terms, as a named list. any numeric values are passed through format() to prevent larger numbers from being scientifically formatted
...: For retry, the options to be passed on to the method implementing the requested verb, including curl options. Otherwise, curl options, only those in the acceptable set from curl::curl_options() except the following: httpget, httppost, post, postfields, postfieldsize, and customrequest

Method `verb()`

Use an arbitrary HTTP verb supported on this class Supported verbs: "get", "post", "put", "patch", "delete", "head". Also supports retry

Usage

HttpClient$verb(verb, ...)

Arguments

verb: an HTTP verb supported on this class: "get", "post", "put", "patch", "delete", "head". Also supports retry.
...: For retry, the options to be passed on to the method implementing the requested verb, including curl options. Otherwise, curl options, only those in the acceptable set from curl::curl_options() except the following: httpget, httppost, post, postfields, postfieldsize, and customrequest

Examples

\dontrun{
(x <- HttpClient$new(url = "https://hb.opencpu.org"))
x$verb('get')
x$verb('GET')
x$verb('GET', query = list(foo = "bar"))
x$verb('retry', 'GET', path = "status/400")
}

Method `retry()`

Retry a request

Usage

HttpClient$retry(
  verb,
  ...,
  pause_base = 1,
  pause_cap = 60,
  pause_min = 1,
  times = 3,
  terminate_on = NULL,
  retry_only_on = NULL,
  onwait = NULL
)

Arguments

verb: an HTTP verb supported on this class: "get", "post", "put", "patch", "delete", "head". Also supports retry.
...: For retry, the options to be passed on to the method implementing the requested verb, including curl options. Otherwise, curl options, only those in the acceptable set from curl::curl_options() except the following: httpget, httppost, post, postfields, postfieldsize, and customrequest
pause_base, pause_cap, pause_min: basis, maximum, and minimum for calculating wait time for retry. Wait time is calculated according to the exponential backoff with full jitter algorithm. Specifically, wait time is chosen randomly between pause_min and the lesser of pause_base * 2 and pause_cap, with pause_base doubling on each subsequent retry attempt. Use pause_cap = Inf to not terminate retrying due to cap of wait time reached.
times: the maximum number of times to retry. Set to Inf to not stop retrying due to exhausting the number of attempts.
terminate_on, retry_only_on: a vector of HTTP status codes. For terminate_on, the status codes for which to terminate retrying, and for retry_only_on, the status codes for which to retry the request.
onwait: a callback function if the request will be retried and a wait time is being applied. The function will be passed two parameters, the response object from the failed request, and the wait time in seconds. Note that the time spent in the function effectively adds to the wait time, so it should be kept simple.

Details

Retries the request given by verb until successful (HTTP response status < 400), or a condition for giving up is met. Automatically recognizes Retry-After and X-RateLimit-Reset headers in the response for rate-limited remote APIs.

Examples

\dontrun{
x <- HttpClient$new(url = "https://hb.opencpu.org")

# retry, by default at most 3 times
(res_get <- x$retry("GET", path = "status/400"))

# retry, but not for 404 NOT FOUND
(res_get <- x$retry("GET", path = "status/404", terminate_on = c(404)))

# retry, but only for exceeding rate limit (note that e.g. Github uses 403)
(res_get <- x$retry("GET", path = "status/429", retry_only_on = c(403, 429)))
}

Method `handle_pop()`

reset your curl handle

Usage

HttpClient$handle_pop()

Method `url_fetch()`

get the URL that would be sent (i.e., before executing the request) the only things that change the URL are path and query parameters; body and any curl options don't change the URL

Usage

HttpClient$url_fetch(path = NULL, query = list())

Arguments

path: URL path, appended to the base URL
query: query terms, as a named list. any numeric values are passed through format() to prevent larger numbers from being scientifically formatted

Returns

URL (character)

Examples

x <- HttpClient$new(url = "https://hb.opencpu.org")
x$url_fetch()
x$url_fetch('get')
x$url_fetch('post')
x$url_fetch('get', query = list(foo = "bar"))

Method `clone()`

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

HttpClient$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep: Whether to make a deep clone.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# set your own handle
(h <- handle("https://hb.opencpu.org"))
(x <- HttpClient$new(handle = h))
x$handle
x$url
(out <- x$get("get"))
x$handle
x$url
class(out)
out$handle
out$request_headers
out$response_headers
out$response_headers_all

# if you just pass a url, we create a handle for you
#  this is how most people will use HttpClient
(x <- HttpClient$new(url = "https://hb.opencpu.org"))
x$url
x$handle # is empty, it gets created when a HTTP verb is called
(r1 <- x$get('get'))
x$url
x$handle
r1$url
r1$handle
r1$content
r1$response_headers
r1$parse()

(res_get2 <- x$get('get', query = list(hello = "world")))
res_get2$parse()
library("jsonlite")
jsonlite::fromJSON(res_get2$parse())

# post request
(res_post <- x$post('post', body = list(hello = "world")))

## empty body request
x$post('post')

# put request
(res_put <- x$put('put'))

# delete request
(res_delete <- x$delete('delete'))

# patch request
(res_patch <- x$patch('patch'))

# head request
(res_head <- x$head())

# query params are URL encoded for you, so DO NOT do it yourself
## if you url encode yourself, it gets double encoded, and that's bad
(x <- HttpClient$new(url = "https://hb.opencpu.org"))
res <- x$get("get", query = list(a = 'hello world'))

# access intermediate headers in response_headers_all
x <- HttpClient$new("https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40455-9_52-1")
bb <- x$get()
bb$response_headers_all
} # }

## ------------------------------------------------
## Method `HttpClient$verb`
## ------------------------------------------------

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
(x <- HttpClient$new(url = "https://hb.opencpu.org"))
x$verb('get')
x$verb('GET')
x$verb('GET', query = list(foo = "bar"))
x$verb('retry', 'GET', path = "status/400")
} # }

## ------------------------------------------------
## Method `HttpClient$retry`
## ------------------------------------------------

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
x <- HttpClient$new(url = "https://hb.opencpu.org")

# retry, by default at most 3 times
(res_get <- x$retry("GET", path = "status/400"))

# retry, but not for 404 NOT FOUND
(res_get <- x$retry("GET", path = "status/404", terminate_on = c(404)))

# retry, but only for exceeding rate limit (note that e.g. Github uses 403)
(res_get <- x$retry("GET", path = "status/429", retry_only_on = c(403, 429)))
} # }

## ------------------------------------------------
## Method `HttpClient$url_fetch`
## ------------------------------------------------

x <- HttpClient$new(url = "https://hb.opencpu.org")
x$url_fetch()
#> [1] "https://hb.opencpu.org/"
x$url_fetch('get')
#> [1] "https://hb.opencpu.org/get"
x$url_fetch('post')
#> [1] "https://hb.opencpu.org/post"
x$url_fetch('get', query = list(foo = "bar"))
#> [1] "https://hb.opencpu.org/get?foo=bar"

Value

Note

R6 classes

handles

See also

Public fields

Methods

Public methods

Method print()

Usage

Arguments

Method new()

Usage

Arguments

Returns

Method get()

Usage

Arguments

Method post()

Usage

Arguments

Method put()

Usage

Arguments

Method patch()

Usage

Arguments

Method delete()

Usage

Arguments

Method head()

Usage

Arguments

Method verb()

Usage

Arguments

Examples

Method retry()

Usage

Arguments

Details

Examples

Method handle_pop()

Usage

Method url_fetch()

Usage

Arguments

Returns

Examples

Method clone()

Usage

Arguments

Examples

Method `print()`

Method `new()`

Method `get()`

Method `post()`

Method `put()`

Method `patch()`

Method `delete()`

Method `head()`

Method `verb()`

Method `retry()`

Method `handle_pop()`

Method `url_fetch()`

Method `clone()`