Mollom API Python (GAE) wrapper

mollom.py

import urllib

from google.appengine.api import urlfetch

from gdata import oauth

class MollomRequest(object):
    API_URL = 'http://rest.mollom.com/v1/'
    # mollom public API key
    CONSUMER_KEY = 'xxx'
    # mollom private API key
    CONSUMER_SECRET = 'xxx'

    def do_request(self, url, http_method='GET', post_data=None):
        url = "%s%s" % (self.API_URL, url)
        consumer = oauth.OAuthConsumer(self.CONSUMER_KEY, self.CONSUMER_SECRET)
        request = oauth.OAuthRequest.from_consumer_and_token(
            consumer,
            http_method=http_method,
            http_url=url,
            parameters=post_data)
        request.sign_request(oauth.OAuthSignatureMethod_HMAC_SHA1(),
                             consumer,
                             None)
        headers = request.to_header()
        headers['Accept'] = 'application/json;q=0.8, */*;q=0.5'

        result = urlfetch.fetch(url,
                                payload=None if post_data is None else urllib.urlencode(post_data),
                                method=urlfetch.GET if request.http_method == "GET" else urlfetch.POST,
                                headers=headers,
                                )

        if result.status_code == 200:
            return result.content

        raise RuntimeError("fail to access resource, status=%d, url=%s" % (result.status_code, url))