python-telegram-bot/telegram/utils/request.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# pylint: disable=no-name-in-module,unused-import
#
# A library that provides a Python interface to the Telegram Bot API
# Copyright (C) 2015 Leandro Toledo de Souza <leandrotoeldodesouza@gmail.com>
#
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#
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"""This module contains methods to make POST and GET requests"""

import json

try:
    from urllib.request import urlopen, Request
    from urllib.error import HTTPError
except ImportError:
    from urllib2 import urlopen, Request
    from urllib2 import HTTPError

from telegram import (InputFile, TelegramError)


def _parse(json_data):
    """Try and parse the JSON returned from Telegram and return an empty
    dictionary if there is any error.

    Args:
      url:
        urllib.urlopen object

    Returns:
      A JSON parsed as Python dict with results.
    """
    data = json.loads(json_data.decode())

    if not data.get('ok') and data.get('description'):
        return data['description']

    return data['result']


def get(url):
    """Request an URL.
    Args:
      url:
        The web location we want to retrieve.

    Returns:
      A JSON object.
    """
    result = urlopen(url).read()

    return _parse(result)


def post(url,
         data):
    """Request an URL.
    Args:
      url:
        The web location we want to retrieve.
      data:
        A dict of (str, unicode) key/value pairs.

    Returns:
      A JSON object.
    """
    try:
        if InputFile.is_inputfile(data):
            data = InputFile(data)
            request = Request(url,
                              data=data.to_form(),
                              headers=data.headers)
        else:
            data = json.dumps(data)
            request = Request(url,
                              data=data.encode(),
                              headers={'Content-Type': 'application/json'})

        result = urlopen(request).read()
    except HTTPError as error:
        if error.getcode() == 403:
            raise TelegramError('Unauthorized')

        message = _parse(error.read())
        raise TelegramError(message)

    return _parse(result)