Setting cookies in AIOHttpTransport doesn't work

I’m trying to set cookies in the transport to execute a query. This works when I use RequestsHTTPTransport but not when I use AIOHTTPTransport. The cookie needs to be present in the POST request. In case it’s not present, the client gets redirected to the login page. So if I’m using requests library directly, it should look like this:

cookies = authenticate(url, username, password)

json = { 'query' : '{ queryName { id }}' }

r = requests.post(url, json=json, cookies=cookies)

This works:

from gql import gql, Client
from gql.transport.aiohttp import AIOHTTPTransport
from gql.transport.requests import RequestsHTTPTransport

cookies=authenticate(url, username, password).get_dict()
transport = RequestsHTTPTransport(url=url, timeout=900, cookies=cookies)

with Client(
    transport=transport,
#     fetch_schema_from_transport=True,
    execute_timeout=1200,
) as client:
    query = gql('''
        query {
            queryName { id } 
        }
    ''')
    result = client.execute(query)
    print(result)

This redirects me to the login page.

from gql import gql, Client
from gql.transport.aiohttp import AIOHTTPTransport

cookies=authenticate(url, username, password).get_dict()
transport = AIOHTTPTransport(url=url, timeout=900, cookies=cookies)

async with Client(
    transport=transport,
#     fetch_schema_from_transport=True,
    execute_timeout=1200,
) as client:
    query = gql('''
        query {
            queryName { id } 
        }
    ''')
    result = await client.execute(query)
    print(result)

I need to send the same cookies for uploading a file via graphQL which is why I need to use AIOHttpTransport. How do I send cookies the same way as in requests?

Note: Tried sending via extra_args but that didn’t work.

[Izayda]

Sorry, posted previous message without page reload.

Thank you very much, you save my day, thats works perfect!

As i can see, there are some unexpected features in aiohttp with SimpleCookie, because sometimes cookies are enclosed with quotes e.t.c. There are some issues in aiohttp repo https://github.com/aio-libs/aiohttp/issues/5397 So, i guess, authors problem is also caused by using cookies without CookieJar.

[leszekhanusz]

I added some documentation about this in PR #202