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diff --git a/docs/howto/usingurllib2.rst b/docs/howto/usingurllib2.rst index a31bcc9b..139bf717 100644 --- a/docs/howto/usingurllib2.rst +++ b/docs/howto/usingurllib2.rst @@ -4,25 +4,31 @@ Using urllib2 Python's standard library comes with some nice modules you can use to test your api or even write a full client. +Using the 'GET' method +---------------------- + Here's an example which does a 'GET' on the `model-resource` example in the sandbox.:: >>> import urllib2 >>> r = urllib2.urlopen('htpp://rest.ep.io/model-resource-example') - # You can check if the response was ok: - >>> r.getcode() + >>> r.getcode() # Check if the response was ok 200 - # Or examin the response itself: - >>> print r.read() + >>> print r.read() # Examin the response itself [{"url": "http://rest.ep.io/model-resource-example/1/", "baz": "sdf", "foo": true, "bar": 123}] -And here's an example which does a 'POST' to create a new instance:: +Using the 'POST' method +----------------------- + +And here's an example which does a 'POST' to create a new instance. First let's encode +the data we want to POST. We'll use `urllib` for encoding and the `time` module +to send the current time as as a string value for our POST.:: - # First encode tha data we want to POST, we'll use urllib for encoding - # and the time module to send the current time as as a string value for our POST >>> import urllib, time >>> d = urllib.urlencode((('bar', 123), ('baz', time.asctime()))) - # Now use the Request class and specify the 'Content-type' + +Now use the `Request` class and specify the 'Content-type':: + >>> req = urllib2.Request('http://rest.ep.io/model-resource-example/', data=d, headers={'Content-Type':'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}) >>> resp = urllib2.urlopen(req) >>> resp.getcode() |