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Wiki integration. Requests don't always have sessions. In particular this occurs when a request is made without a trailing slash. The Common middleware redirects when this happens, and the middleware process_request() processing stops before a session can get added. So just set an attribute on the request object for each operation. This seemed weird to me at first, but there are plenty of examples of this in the Django code base already.
author Brian Neal <bgneal@gmail.com>
date Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:50:06 -0600
parents ee87ea74d46b
children 89b240fe9297
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"""
This module contains core functionality for the oembed application.
"""
from __future__ import with_statement
import urllib
import urllib2
import gzip
try:
    from cStringIO import StringIO
except ImportError:
    from StringIO import StringIO

import django.utils.simplejson as json


USER_AGENT = 'gremmies python oembed'


def get_oembed(api_endpoint, url, format='json', **opts):
    """
    Perform the GET request to retrieve the embedded media data from the given
    API endpoint for the given URL. Return the result as a Python dictionary.

    format specifies the response format, and should be 'json' or 'xml'.
    opts are any additional GET options that should be present in the GET
    request.

    """
    opts['url'] = url
    opts['format'] = format
    api_url = "%s?%s" % (api_endpoint, urllib.urlencode(opts))

    headers = {
        'User-Agent': USER_AGENT,
        'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip',
    }
    request = urllib2.Request(api_url, headers=headers)

    opener = urllib2.build_opener()
    f = opener.open(request)
    headers = f.info()
    result = f.read()
    f.close()

    if headers.get('content-encoding') == 'gzip':
        f = gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=StringIO(result))
        result = f.read()
        f.close()

    return json.loads(result)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        print get_oembed("http://www.youtube.com/oembed",
                "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_IMzJldOf4")
    except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
        print e