Sending an HTTP request in python with an avro/json payload?

Question

I am trying to figure out the best way to send out an avro object within an http request. I was thinking about performing this via python. I am a little confused about how this can be achieved. Would I be creating a POST request with the data attribute equal to the location where the avro file is located? Is there a way to create a whole bunch of avro objects on the fly and instead of storing them in a physical location, stream them into the POST request? I am not sure how byte arrays can be send across the wire to the server. It will be great to get some insight into the fundamentals of this process.

Thanks

Answer 1

You might find python requests useful.

http://www.python-requests.org/en/latest/user/quickstart/#

$pip install requests

>>> import requests
>>> url = 'http://httpbin.org/post'
>>> files = {'file': open('report.xls', 'rb')}

>>> r = requests.post(url, files=files)