Python API

HTTP Prompt* heavily relies on httpie.core.main() function to send actual HTTP requests. Some HTTP Prompt’s features, like setting incoming cookies, require us to access the response object (requests.Response, to be more specific) in Python, but httpie.core.main() doesn’t provide such an API. So HTTP Prompt “hacks” HTTPie with sys.settrace() to get the response object returned by httpie.core.get_response(), as the following code shows:

https://github.com/eliangcs/http-prompt/blob/cbd092299/http_prompt/execution.py#L430

I wonder if HTTPie could offer an API for developers to access the internal response object easier.

* For those who haven’t already known: HTTP Prompt is a wrapper that provides an interactive interface of HTTPie.

[mblayman]

HTTPony touches very little of HTTPie’s APIs. It’s limited to:

from httpie.cli import parser
from httpie.context import Environment
from httpie.output import streams

The core of what is done is passing a requests.models.Request to streams.build_output_stream and calling streams.write_stream. All that happens in https://github.com/mblayman/httpony/blob/master/httpony/application.py.

[jakubroztocil]

Yes, it makes sense — I’ll look into this. main() could return both exit status code and the final HTTP response. And maybe the parse args as well would be useful to return as well.