Starting the "rewrite" branch.

Committing basic HTTP and API access classes as well as a unit test.

https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:Code/pywikipedia/4502

pywikibot/data/__init__.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8  -*-
+"""
+The "data" module provides several physical layers of data access to the wiki.
+"""
+#
+# (C) Pywikipedia bot team, 2007
+#
+# Distributed under the terms of the MIT license.
+#
+__version__ = '$Id: $'
+
+#Import the classes exposed by this module:
+from http import HTTP
+from api import API

pywikibot/data/api.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8  -*-
+"""
+Interface functions to Mediawiki's api.php
+"""
+#
+# (C) Pywikipedia bot team, 2007
+#
+# Distributed under the terms of the MIT license.
+#
+__version__ = '$Id: $'
+
+
+import urllib
+import http
+
+
+class API:
+
+    def __init__(self, site):
+        self.site = site
+
+    def query(prop, **kwargs):
+        params = dict(kwargs)
+        params['action'] = 'query'
+        if not params.has_key('format'): #Most probably, we want the XML format
+            params['format'] = 'xml'
+        address = '/w/api.php?' + urllib.urlencode(params)
+
+        return http.HTTP(None).GET(address) #TODO: Use site's HTTP object instead

pywikibot/data/http.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8  -*-
+"""
+Basic HTTP access interface (GET/POST wrappers).
+"""
+#
+# (C) Pywikipedia bot team, 2007
+#
+# Distributed under the terms of the MIT license.
+#
+__version__ = '$Id: $'
+
+
+import httplib
+
+
+class HTTP:
+
+    def __init__(self, site):
+        self.site = site
+        self.useragent = 'PythonWikipediaBot/2.0'
+        #TODO: Initiate persistent connection here?
+
+
+    def GET(self, address):
+        #TODO: Resuse said connection.
+        conn = httplib.HTTPConnection('en.wikipedia.org',80) #TODO: Obviously, get these from the site object (unimplemented yet)
+        conn.putrequest('GET',address)
+        conn.putheader('User-agent',self.useragent)
+        conn.endheaders()
+        conn.send('')
+
+        response = conn.getresponse()
+        data = response.read()
+
+        return response.status, data

pywikibot/data/test.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8  -*-
+"""
+Set of test suites for the data module.
+"""
+#
+# (C) Pywikipedia bot team, 2007
+#
+# Distributed under the terms of the MIT license.
+#
+__version__ = '$Id: $'
+
+
+import unittest
+import http, api
+
+
+class HTTPTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.HTTP = http.HTTP(None) #TODO: Replace None with an actual Site object once implemented
+
+    def testGETMainPage(self):
+        """GETting the Main Page should give a HTTP 200 response."""
+        status, data = self.HTTP.GET('/w/index.php?title=Main_Page')
+        self.assertEqual(status, 200)
+
+
+class APITest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        self.API = api.API(None) #TODO: Replace None with an actual Site object once implemented
+
+    def testGETMainPage(self):
+        """Querying for nothing should return an empty <api /> tag."""
+        status, data = self.API.query()
+        self.assertEqual(status, 200)
+        self.assertEqual(data, '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><api />')
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()