Skeleton Base Class for Python HTTP Operations

http_base.py

class HttpBase(object):

	def __init__(self, base_url, api_key):
		self.base_url=base_url
		self.api_key=api_key
		self.headers = {'Content-Type': 'application/json',
							'Accepts': 'application/json'}
		self.http = httplib2.Http()

	def get(self, path, data=None):
		if not data:
			data={}

		data['api_key']=self.api_key
		params = urlencode(data)

		url = self.base_url % path
		url = '?'.join([url, params])

		response, content = self.http.request(url, method="GET",
											headers=self.headers)
		return self.process(response, content)

	def post(self, path, body=None):
		if not body:
			body={}

		body['api_key']=self.api_key
		body = simplejson.dumps(body)

		url = self.base_url % path

		response, content = self.http.request(url, method="POST",
											body=body, headers=self.headers)
		return self.process(response, content)

	def process(self, http_response, content):
		if http_response.status!=200:
			if 'message' in http_response:
				raise Exception(http_response['message'])
			else:
				raise Exception()
		code = http_response.status
		body = simplejson.loads(content)
		error_message = body.get('error_message', None)
		response = Response(code, body, error_message, content, http_response)
		return response
			
class Response(object):
	def __init__(self, code=None, body=None, error_message=None, raw_body=None, raw_response=None):
		self.code = code
		self.body = body
		self.error_message = error_message
		self.raw_body = raw_body
		self.raw_response = raw_response