How to use Requests library with py_eureka_client

[sid8491]

Most of my code is written using the requests library, and py_eureka_client is implemented using urllib library. I have a common function to call the services.

I was wondering if it possible to use requests library along with py_eureka_client ?

Currently I am using something like below: resp = eureka_client.do_service(MY_SERVICE, service = "/abc/xyz/movies/list", method="GET", headers=headers, return_type="json")

I have read there is an option walker but I could not understand how to use it. And how to pass additional args to it.

I want to use requests library so that I don't have to change the rest of the code after getting response from the service.

[keijack]

How about using this:

import py_eureka_client.http_client as http_client

# 1. Inherit the `HttpClient` class in `py_eureka_client.http_client`.
class MyHttpClient(http_client.HttpClient):

    # 2. Rewrite the `urlopen` method in your class.
    # If you want to raise an exception, please make sure that the exception is an `urllib.error.HTTPError` or `urllib.error.URLError`
    # (urllib2.HTTPError or urllib2.URLError in python 2), or it may cause some un-handled errors.
    def urlopen(self):
        # The flowing code is the default implementation, you can see what fields you can use. you can change your implementation here
        res = urllib2.urlopen(self.request, data=self.data, timeout=self.timeout,
                            cafile=self.cafile, capath=self.capath,
                            cadefault=self.cadefault, context=self.context)

        if res.info().get("Content-Encoding") == "gzip":
            try:
                # python2
                f = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO(res.read()))
            except NameError:
                f = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=res)
        else:
            f = res

        txt = f.read().decode(_DEFAULT_ENCODING)
        f.close()
        return txt

# 3. Set your class to `py_eureka_client.http_client`. 
http_client.set_http_client_class(MyHttpClient)

[keijack]

no response for long time

[sid8491]

hi sorry, been busy could not reply. actually i used walk_nodes function to get the url and then simply used that url to call the api using requests library. thanks for the reply and help though.

[keijack]

It's OK if you want just to use the request library to call the SERVICE. py_eureka_client.http_client also make the possibility to change the library to visit eureka server.