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Known subclasses: libcloud.common.abiquo.AbiquoConnection, libcloud.common.cloudstack.CloudStackConnection, libcloud.dns.drivers.rackspace.RackspaceDNSConnection, libcloud.loadbalancer.drivers.rackspace.RackspaceConnection
Connection class which can also work with the async APIs. After initial requests, this class periodically polls for jobs status and waits until the job has finished. If job doesn't finish in timeout seconds, an Exception thrown.
| Method | async_request | No summary |
| Method | get_request_kwargs | Arguments which are passed to the initial request() call inside async_request. |
| Method | get_poll_request_kwargs | Return keyword arguments which are passed to the request() method when polling for the job status. |
| Method | has_completed | Return job completion status. |
Inherited from Connection:
| Method | __init__ | Undocumented |
| Method | set_context | Undocumented |
| Method | connect | Establish a connection with the API server. |
| Method | user_agent_append | Append a token to a user agent string. |
| Method | request | Request a given `action`. |
| Method | morph_action_hook | Undocumented |
| Method | add_default_params | Adds default parameters (such as API key, version, etc.) to the passed `params` |
| Method | add_default_headers | Adds default headers (such as Authorization, X-Foo-Bar) to the passed `headers` |
| Method | pre_connect_hook | A hook which is called before connecting to the remote server. This hook can perform a final manipulation on the params, headers and url parameters. |
| Method | encode_data | Encode body data. |
| Method | _tuple_from_url | Undocumented |
| Method | _user_agent | Undocumented |
Perform an 'async' request to the specified path. Keep in mind that
this function is *blocking* and 'async' in this case means that the
hit URL only returns a job ID which is the periodically polled until
the job has completed.
This function works like this:
- Perform a request to the specified path. Response should contain a
'job_id'.
- Returned 'job_id' is then used to construct a URL which is used for
retrieving job status. Constructed URL is then periodically polled
until the response indicates that the job has completed or the
timeout of 'self.timeout' seconds has been reached.
@type action: C{str}
@param action: A path
@type params: C{dict}
@param params: Optional mapping of additional parameters to send. If
None, leave as an empty C{dict}.
@type data: C{unicode}
@param data: A body of data to send with the request.
@type headers: C{dict}
@param headers: Extra headers to add to the request
None, leave as an empty C{dict}.
@type method: C{str}
@param method: An HTTP method such as "GET" or "POST".
@type context: C{dict}
@param context: Context dictionary which is passed to the functions
which construct initial and poll URL.
@return: An instance of type I{responseCls}
Arguments which are passed to the initial request() call inside async_request.
Return keyword arguments which are passed to the request() method when
polling for the job status.
@param response: Response object returned by poll request.
@type response: C{HTTPResponse}
@param request_kwargs: Kwargs previously used to initiate the
poll request.
@type response: C{dict}
@return C{dict} Keyword arguments
Return job completion status.
@param response: Response object returned by poll request.
@type response: C{HTTPResponse}
@return C{bool} True if the job has completed, False otherwise.