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HTTP request object

Source: R/httprequest.R
HttpRequest.Rd

Create HTTP requests

Details

This R6 class doesn't do actual HTTP requests as does HttpClient() - it is for building requests to use for async HTTP requests in AsyncVaried()

Note that you can access HTTP verbs after creating an HttpRequest object, just as you can with HttpClient. See examples for usage.

Also note that when you call HTTP verbs on a HttpRequest object you don't need to assign the new object to a variable as the new details you've added are added to the object itself.

See HttpClient() for information on parameters.

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://httpbin.org")) you can access values and methods on the object x.

See also

http-headers, writing-options

Other async: AsyncQueue, AsyncVaried, Async

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

payload

resulting payload after request

Methods

Public methods

Method print()

print method for HttpRequest objects

Usage

HttpRequest$print(x, ...)

Arguments

x

self

...

ignored

Method new()

Create a new HttpRequest object

Usage

HttpRequest$new(url, opts, proxies, auth, headers, handle, progress)

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

urls

(character) one or more URLs

Returns

A new HttpRequest object

Method get()

Define a GET request

Usage

HttpRequest$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

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

...

curl options, only those in the acceptable set from curl::curl_options() except the following: httpget, httppost, post, postfields, postfieldsize, and customrequest

Method post()

Define a POST request

Usage

HttpRequest$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

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

...

curl options, only those in the acceptable set from curl::curl_options() except the following: httpget, httppost, post, postfields, postfieldsize, and customrequest

Method put()

Define a PUT request

Usage

HttpRequest$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

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

...

curl options, only those in the acceptable set from curl::curl_options() except the following: httpget, httppost, post, postfields, postfieldsize, and customrequest

Method patch()

Define a PATCH request

Usage

HttpRequest$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

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

...

curl options, only those in the acceptable set from curl::curl_options() except the following: httpget, httppost, post, postfields, postfieldsize, and customrequest

Method delete()

Define a DELETE request

Usage

HttpRequest$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

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

...

curl options, only those in the acceptable set from curl::curl_options() except the following: httpget, httppost, post, postfields, postfieldsize, and customrequest

Method head()

Define a HEAD request

Usage

HttpRequest$head(path = NULL, ...)

Arguments

path

URL path, appended to the base URL

...

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

Usage

HttpRequest$verb(verb, ...)

Arguments

verb

an HTTP verb supported on this class: get, post, put, patch, delete, head. Also supports retry.

...

curl options, only those in the acceptable set from curl::curl_options() except the following: httpget, httppost, post, postfields, postfieldsize, and customrequest

Examples

z <- HttpRequest$new(url = "https://httpbin.org/get")
res <- z$verb('get', query = list(hello = "world"))
res$payload

Method method()

Get the HTTP method (if defined)

Usage

HttpRequest$method()

Returns

(character) the HTTP method

Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

HttpRequest$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
x <- HttpRequest$new(url = "https://httpbin.org/get")
## note here how the HTTP method is shown on the first line to the right
x$get()

## assign to a new object to keep the output
z <- x$get()
### get the HTTP method
z$method()

(x <- HttpRequest$new(url = "https://httpbin.org/get")$get())
x$url
x$payload

(x <- HttpRequest$new(url = "https://httpbin.org/post"))
x$post(body = list(foo = "bar"))

HttpRequest$new(
  url = "https://httpbin.org/get",
  headers = list(
    `Content-Type` = "application/json"
  )
)
}

## ------------------------------------------------
## Method `HttpRequest$verb`
## ------------------------------------------------

z <- HttpRequest$new(url = "https://httpbin.org/get")
res <- z$verb('get', query = list(hello = "world"))
res$payload
#> $url
#> $url$url
#> [1] "https://httpbin.org/get?hello=world"
#> 
#> $url$handle
#> <curl handle> (https://httpbin.org/get?hello=world)
#> 
#> 
#> $method
#> [1] "get"
#> 
#> $options
#> $options$httpget
#> [1] TRUE
#> 
#> 
#> $headers
#> $headers$`Accept-Encoding`
#> [1] "gzip, deflate"
#> 
#> $headers$Accept
#> [1] "application/json, text/xml, application/xml, */*"
#> 
#>