How do I read a response from Python Requests?
I have two Python scripts. One uses the Urllib2 library and one uses the Requests library.
I have found Requests easier to implement, but I can't find an equivalent for urlib2's read() function. For example:
...
response = url.urlopen(req)
print response.geturl()
print response.getcode()
data = response.read()
print data
Once I have built up my post url, data = response.read() gives me the content - I am trying to connect to a vcloud director api instance and the response shows the endpoints that I have access to. However if I use the Requests library as follows.....
....
def post_call(username, org, password, key, secret):
endpoint = '<URL ENDPOINT>'
post_url = endpoint + 'sessions'
get_url = endpoint + 'org'
headers = {'Accept':'application/*+xml;version=5.1', \
'Authorization':'Basic '+ base64.b64encode(username + "@" + org + ":" + password), \
'x-id-sec':base64.b64encode(key + ":" + secret)}
print headers
post_call = requests.post(post_url, data=None, headers = headers)
print post_call, "POST call"
print post_call.text, "TEXT"
print post_call.content, "CONTENT"
post_call.status_code, "STATUS CODE"
....
....the print post_call.text and print post_call.content returns nothing, even though the status code equals 200 in the requests post call.
Why isn't my response from Requests returning any text or content?
Answer
Requests doesn't have an equivalent to Urlib2's read().
>>> import requests
>>> response = requests.get("http://www.google.com")
>>> print response.content
'<!doctype html><html itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage"><head>....'
>>> print response.content == response.text
True
It looks like the POST request you are making is returning no content. Which is often the case with a POST request. Perhaps it set a cookie? The status code is telling you that the POST succeeded after all.