Method _guess_method

httpie/cli/argparser.py:409–446

Set `args.method` if not specified to either POST or GET based on whether the request has data or not.

(self)

                       'See https://httpie.io/docs#scripting for details.')

    def _guess_method(self):
        """Set `args.method` if not specified to either POST or GET
        based on whether the request has data or not.

        """
        if self.args.method is None:
            # Invoked as `http URL'.
            assert not self.args.request_items
            if self.has_input_data:
                self.args.method = HTTP_POST
            else:
                self.args.method = HTTP_GET

        # FIXME: False positive, e.g., "localhost" matches but is a valid URL.
        elif not re.match('^[a-zA-Z]+$', self.args.method):
            # Invoked as `http URL item+'. The URL is now in `args.method`
            # and the first ITEM is now incorrectly in `args.url`.
            try:
                # Parse the URL as an ITEM and store it as the first ITEM arg.
                self.args.request_items.insert(0, KeyValueArgType(
                    *SEPARATOR_GROUP_ALL_ITEMS).__call__(self.args.url))

            except argparse.ArgumentTypeError as e:
                if self.args.traceback:
                    raise
                self.error(e.args[0])

            else:
                # Set the URL correctly
                self.args.url = self.args.method
                # Infer the method
                has_data = (
                    self.has_input_data
                    or any(
                        item.sep in SEPARATOR_GROUP_DATA_ITEMS
                        for item in self.args.request_items)
                )
                self.args.method = HTTP_POST if has_data else HTTP_GET

    def _parse_items(self):
        """