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RequestSignature

Source: R/RequestSignature.R
RequestSignature.Rd

General purpose request signature builder

Public fields

method

(character) an http method

uri

(character) a uri

body

(various) request body

headers

(list) named list of headers

proxies

(list) proxies as a named list

auth

(list) authentication details, as a named list

url

internal use

disk

(character) if writing to disk, the path

fields

(various) request body details

output

(various) request output details, disk, memory, etc

Methods

Public methods

Method new()

Create a new RequestSignature object

Usage

RequestSignature$new(method, uri, options = list())

Arguments

method

the HTTP method (any, head, options, get, post, put, patch, trace, or delete). "any" matches any HTTP method. required.

uri

(character) request URI. required.

options

(list) options. optional. See Details.

Returns

A new RequestSignature object

Method print()

print method for the RequestSignature class

Usage

RequestSignature$print()

Arguments

x

self

...

ignored

Method to_s()

Request signature to a string

Usage

RequestSignature$to_s()

Returns

a character string representation of the request signature

Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

RequestSignature$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.

Examples

# make request signature
x <- RequestSignature$new(method = "get", uri = "https:/httpbin.org/get")
# method
x$method
#> [1] "get"
# uri
x$uri
#> [1] "https:/httpbin.org/get"
# request signature to string
x$to_s()
#> [1] "GET:  https:/httpbin.org/get"

# headers
w <- RequestSignature$new(
  method = "get",
  uri = "https:/httpbin.org/get",
  options = list(headers = list(`User-Agent` = "foobar", stuff = "things"))
)
w
#> <RequestSignature> 
#>   method: GET
#>   uri: https:/httpbin.org/get
#>   headers: 
#>      User-Agent: foobar
#>      stuff: things
w$headers
#> $`User-Agent`
#> [1] "foobar"
#> 
#> $stuff
#> [1] "things"
#> 
w$to_s()
#> [1] "GET:  https:/httpbin.org/get   with headers {User-Agent: foobar, stuff: things}"

# headers and body
bb <- RequestSignature$new(
  method = "get",
  uri = "https:/httpbin.org/get",
  options = list(
    headers = list(`User-Agent` = "foobar", stuff = "things"),
    body = list(a = "tables")
  )
)
bb
#> <RequestSignature> 
#>   method: GET
#>   uri: https:/httpbin.org/get
#>   body: 
#>      a: tables
#>   headers: 
#>      User-Agent: foobar
#>      stuff: things
bb$headers
#> $`User-Agent`
#> [1] "foobar"
#> 
#> $stuff
#> [1] "things"
#> 
bb$body
#> $a
#> [1] "tables"
#> 
bb$to_s()
#> [1] "GET:  https:/httpbin.org/get  with body {a: tables}  with headers {User-Agent: foobar, stuff: things}"

# with disk path
f <- tempfile()
bb <- RequestSignature$new(
  method = "get",
  uri = "https:/httpbin.org/get",
  options = list(disk = f)
)
bb
#> <RequestSignature> 
#>   method: GET
#>   uri: https:/httpbin.org/get
#>   disk: /tmp/RtmpaKelNM/file3465b154d5c
bb$disk
#> [1] "/tmp/RtmpaKelNM/file3465b154d5c"
bb$to_s()
#> [1] "GET:  https:/httpbin.org/get"