Asynchronous aiohttp responses.

async_aiohttp.py

import asyncio  # only here for debugging purposes
import aiohttp

USER_AGENT = 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:61.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/61.1'


def default_headers():
    header = {
        'User-Agent': USER_AGENT
    }
    return header


class WebSession(object):
    session = None

    @classmethod
    def create(cls):
        cls.session = aiohttp.ClientSession()
        return cls.session

    @classmethod
    def close(cls):
        if cls.session is not None:
            # apparently this is supposed to return a future?
            return cls.session.close()


async def request(method, url, **kwargs):

    if kwargs.get('headers', None) is None:
        kwargs['headers'] = default_headers()

    if WebSession.session is None:
        session = WebSession.create()
    else:
        session = WebSession.session

    return await session.request(method=method, url=url, **kwargs)


async def get(url, **kwargs):
    return await request('GET', url=url, **kwargs)


async def post(url, **kwargs):
    return await request('POST', url=url, **kwargs)


async def get_url():
    res = await get('https://httpbin.org/get')
    print(f'Headers: {res.headers}')


async def close():
    # run this before the app ends
    await WebSession.close()