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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"DISCUSSION: Allow http as an argument to Connection so libraries other than httplib2 can be used","articleBody":"This way we can support people using `Twisted` (for example) or other frameworks without having to write any other code. Though docs could be nice? We could supply an abstract class for them to subclass?\n\n---\n\nAs of 12ac983fe613785c998aeeb1d8b981f4b5b347d9:\n\n```\n$ git log -1 --pretty=%H\n12ac983fe613785c998aeeb1d8b981f4b5b347d9\n$ git grep '\\.http' -- gcloud/ | egrep -v 'test'\ngcloud/datastore/connection.py:        :raises: :class:`six.moves.http_client.HTTPException` if the response\ngcloud/datastore/connection.py:        headers, content = self.http.request(\ngcloud/datastore/connection.py:            raise six.moves.http_client.HTTPException(message)\ngcloud/storage/connection.py:        return self.http.request(uri=url, method=method, headers=headers,\ngcloud/storage/key.py:        download.InitializeDownload(request, self.connection.http)\ngcloud/storage/key.py:        upload.InitializeUpload(request, conn.http)\ngcloud/storage/key.py:            http_wrapper.MakeRequest(conn.http, request, retries=num_retries)\n```\n\nWe only actively use the `httplib2.Http()` instance twice. Once in `storage.connection.Connection.make_request`:\n\n``` python\n        return self.http.request(uri=url, method=method, headers=headers,\n                                 body=data)\n```\n\nand once in `datastore.connection.Connection._request`:\n\n``` python\n        headers, content = self.http.request(\n            uri=self.build_api_url(dataset_id=dataset_id, method=method),\n            method='POST', headers=headers, body=data)\n```\n\n---\n\nIn either case the object only needs to be able to accept\n- `uri`\n- `method`\n- `headers`\n- `body`\n\nand needs to [append](https://github.com/google/oauth2client/blob/2864ebc7a52832f0fda3820d6aeb8723c0d09597/oauth2client/client.py#L584-L590) a\n\n```\nAuthorization: Bearer ya29.some-OAUTH-TOKEN...\n```\n\nheader to `headers`. (See the [source](https://github.com/google/oauth2client/blob/2864ebc7a52832f0fda3820d6aeb8723c0d09597/oauth2client/client.py#L525-L556), the user agent is also updated and the request is retried if a [401 Unauthorized](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_status_codes#4xx_Client_Error) is encountered, but an external client need not do either of those.)\n\n---\n\nASIDE: Should we add an auth label?\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/dhermes","@type":"Person","name":"dhermes"},"datePublished":"2015-01-15T07:27:55.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/551/google-cloud-python/issues/551"}