proknow.Requestor
Requestor
- class proknow.Requestor.Requestor(base_url, username, password, max_retries=3)
A class used for issuing requests for the ProKnow API
- delete(route, **kwargs)
Issues an HTTP
DELETE
request.- Parameters:
route (str) – The API route to use in the request.
**kwargs (dict, optional) – Additional keyword arguments to pass through in the request.
- Returns:
A tuple (res, msg).
res (Response): the Response object
msg (str, dict): the text response or, if the response was JSON, the decoded JSON dictionary.
- Return type:
tuple
- get(route, **kwargs)
Issues an HTTP
GET
request.- Parameters:
route (str) – The API route to use in the request.
**kwargs (dict, optional) – Additional keyword arguments to pass through in the request.
- Returns:
A tuple (res, msg).
res (Response): the Response object
msg (str, dict): the text response or, if the response was JSON, the decoded JSON dictionary.
- Return type:
tuple
- get_binary(route, **kwargs)
Issues an HTTP
GET
request, returning the binary data.This method is useful when the response is known to not be JSON encoded and should be returned instead as a string of bytes.
- Parameters:
route (str) – The API route to use in the request.
**kwargs (dict, optional) – Additional keyword arguments to pass through in the request.
- Returns:
A tuple (res, data).
res (Response): the Response object
data (bytes): The resonse as a byte string
- Return type:
tuple
- patch(route, **kwargs)
Issues an HTTP
PATCH
request.- Parameters:
route (str) – The API route to use in the request.
**kwargs (dict, optional) – Additional keyword arguments to pass through in the request.
- Returns:
A tuple (res, msg).
res (Response): the Response object
msg (str, dict): the text response or, if the response was JSON, the decoded JSON dictionary.
- Return type:
tuple
- post(route, **kwargs)
Issues an HTTP
POST
request.- Parameters:
route (str) – The API route to use in the request.
**kwargs (dict, optional) – Additional keyword arguments to pass through in the request.
- Returns:
A tuple (res, msg).
res (Response): the Response object
msg (str, dict): the text response or, if the response was JSON, the decoded JSON dictionary.
- Return type:
tuple
- put(route, **kwargs)
Issues an HTTP
PUT
request.- Parameters:
route (str) – The API route to use in the request.
**kwargs (dict, optional) – Additional keyword arguments to pass through in the request.
- Returns:
A tuple (res, msg).
res (Response): the Response object
msg (str, dict): the text response or, if the response was JSON, the decoded JSON dictionary.
- Return type:
tuple
- stream(route, path)
Issues an HTTP
PUT
request.- Parameters:
route (str) – The API route to use in the request.
path (str) – The file path to stream the request response.