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Python world has a very popular library working with HTTP requests - Requests (author: Kenneth Reitz). The library allows you to send HTTP requests extremely easily. Literally a single line of your code can receive or send data, not caring about making URL, encoding data etc.
Connector is "Requests" for 1C world.
The original of the library in Russian is here
Main library features:
- Passing parameters in URLs
- Working with requests and responses in
JSON
format - Submitting form data (form fields),
application/x-www-form-urlencoded
- Submitting form data (form fields and files),
multipart/form-data
GZip
compressed response supportGZip
request body compressionBasic
,Digest
andAWS4-HMAC-SHA256
authentification- Auto resolution of redirections
- Cookies setting and getting
- Session with state persistance across requests (cookies, authentification и пр.)
- Reusing
HTTPConnection
in the session - Configurable retries of connection/sending request with exponential latency
- Mobile platform support
- And much more
- 1C:Enterprise platform version 8.3.10 and higher.
- Mobile platform (tested version 8.3.15 only)
To use the library in your code simply copy the HTTPConnector
common module to your configuration.
What is so good about the library? Let’s show you an example.
Let's get JSON
data using GET
request:
This is how it's done using built-in programming language
SecureConnection = New OpenSSLSecureConnection(Undefined, New OSCertificationAuthorityCertificates);
Connection = New HTTPConnection("api.github.com", 443,,,, 30, SecureConnection);
Query = New HTTPRequest("/events");
Response = Connection.Get(Query);
Stream = Response.GetBodyAsStream();
Encoding = "utf-8"; // suppose we know that there is such encoding
Reader = New JSONReader;
Reader.OpenStream(Stream, Encoding); // Encoding in response header
Result = ReadJSON(Reader);
Reader.Close();
This is how it's done using Connector
Result = HTTPConnector.GetJson("https://api.github.com/events");
That's all! You will get in Result
a deserialized server response from JSON
.
At the same time:
- Connector parsed the URL
- Established secured connection
- Defined response encoding from headers
- Deserialized
JSON
And this is a simple example enough. All the library's power follows further.
Working with request parameters is very easy:
RequestParameters = New Structure;
RequestParameters.Insert("name", StrSplit("John,Doe", ","));
RequestParameters.Insert("salary", Format(100000, "ЧГ="));
Response = HTTPConnector.GetJson("https://httpbin.org/anything/params", RequestParameters);
You can also pass an Array
of values for a parameter (see. name
).
Request parameters can be set:
- In URL by hand
- In
RequestParameters
parameter - Combined both
The result will be the same:
- Connector will add parameters as key/value pairs in the URL after a question mark
- Encode URL, using
URLEncoding
- Execute request
You can see that the URL has been correctly encoded by checking the reponse property URL
Response = HTTPConnector.Get("https://httpbin.org/anything/params", RequestParameters);
Response.URL
- https://httpbin.org/anything/params?name=%D0%98%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2&name=%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2&salary=100000
In the main scenarios of using the library, headers are generated automatically.
Custom headers can be set using AdditionalParameters
parameter, property Headers
.
Headers = New Map;
Headers.Insert("X-My-Header", "Hello!!!");
Result = HTTPConnector.GetJson("http://httpbin.org/headers", Undefined, New Structure("Headers", Headers));
To make it easier to work with JSON, there are methods:
GetJson
, PostJson
, PutJson
, DeleteJson
.
Requests are sent in JSON format, responses are converted into Map
/Structure
from JSON.
Result = HTTPConnector.GetJson("http://httpbin.org/get");
Result = HTTPConnector.PostJson("http://httpbin.org/post", New Structure("Title", "HTTPConnector"));
Result = HTTPConnector.PutJson("http://httpbin.org/put", New Structure("Title", "HTTPConnector"));
Result = HTTPConnector.DeleteJson("http://httpbin.org/delete", New Structure("Title", "HTTPConnector"));
Serialization to JSON and deserialization from JSON are configured in parameters of AdditionalParameters.JSONConversionParameters
.
Submitting form data is easy.
We transfer (Structure
or Map
) in POST
method and that's all.
Data = New Structure;
Data.Insert("comments", "Knock to the door");
Data.Insert("custemail", "[email protected]");
Data.Insert("custname", "Вася");
Data.Insert("custtel", "112");
Data.Insert("delivery", "20:20");
Data.Insert("size", "medium");
Data.Insert("topping", StrSplit("bacon,mushroom", ","));
Response = HTTPConnector.Post("http://httpbin.org/post", Data);
The Data
will be encoded, Content-Type
header value will be set to application/x-www-form-urlencoded
.
To send a file you should create its description and put it to AdditionalParameters.Files
parameter.
Files = New Structure;
Files.Insert("Name", "f1");
Files.Insert("FileName", "file1.txt");
Files.Insert("Data", Base64Value("0J/RgNC40LLQtdGCINCc0LjRgCE="));
Files.Insert("Type", "text/plain");
Result = HTTPConnector.Post("https://httpbin.org/post", Undefined, New Structure("Files", Files));
The file will be encoded in a request body, Content-Type
header value will be set to multipart/form-data
.
For submitting form data and files in a single request you should create a description of files and from data and transfer them to AdditionalParameters.Files
, AdditionalParameters.Data
parameters.
Files = New Array;
Files.Add(New Structure("Name,Data,FileName", "f1", Base64Value("ZmlsZTE="), "file1.txt"));
Files.Add(New Structure("Name,Data,FileName", "f2", Base64Value("ZmlsZTI="), "file2.txt"));
Data = New Structure("field1,field2", "value1", "Значение2");
Result = HTTPConnector.Post("https://httpbin.org/post", Undefined, New Structure("Files,Data", Files, Data));
Files and form data will be encoded in a request body, Content-Type
header value will be set to multipart/form-data
.
Arbitrary data (String
, BinaryData
) should be put to Data
parameter.
XML =
"<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8""?>
|<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"" xmlns:xsd=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"" xmlns:soap=""http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"">
| <soap:Body>
| <GetCursOnDate xmlns=""http://web.cbr.ru/"">
| <On_date>2019-07-05</On_date>
| </GetCursOnDate>
| </soap:Body>
|</soap:Envelope>";
Headers = New Map;
Headers.Insert("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8");
Headers.Insert("SOAPAction", "http://web.cbr.ru/GetCursOnDate");
Response = HTTPConnector.Post(
"https://www.cbr.ru/DailyInfoWebServ/DailyInfo.asmx",
XML,
New Structure("Headers", Headers));
Methods that do not end with Json, return response as Structure
:
ExecutionTime
- Number - execution response duration in millisecondsCookies
- cookies received from hostHeaders
- HTTP response headersIsPermanentRedirect
- permanent redirect flagIsRedirect
- redirect flagEncoding
- response text encodingBody
- response bodyStatusCode
- response status codeURL
- final request URL
You can get the data from the response in JSON, text or binary data using methods described below.
Method AsJson
returns deserialized JSON data of a response.
Result = HTTPConnector.AsJson(HTTPConnector.Get("http://httpbin.org/get"));
Method AsText
returns response data as text.
Result = HTTPConnector.AsText(HTTPConnector.Get("http://httpbin.org/encoding/utf8"));
You can set the encoding as an argument. If the encoding argument is undefined, Connector will get its value from response headers.
Method AsBinaryData
converts response into BinaryData
.
Result = HTTPConnector.AsBinaryData(HTTPConnector.Get("http://httpbin.org/image/png"));
Method КакXDTO
converts XML response into XDTOObject
.
Result = HTTPConnector.КакXDTO(Response);
Connector can automatically compress the request body into GZip
.
To do this you should add the header Content-Encoding
= gzip
.
Note: the server must be configured appropriately to decompress incoming requests.
Json = New Structure;
Json.Insert("field", "value");
Json.Insert("field2", "value2");
Headers = New Map;
Headers.Insert("Content-Encoding", "gzip");
Result = HTTPConnector.PostJson("http://httpbin.org/anything", Json, New Structure("Headers", Headers));
Connector by default asks the host to encode responses into GZip
format.
Note: any response body encoding can be turned off by setting the header Accept-Encoding
= identity
.
Decoding is perfomed in methods GetJson
, PostJson
, PutJson
, DeleteJson
, AsJson
, AsText
, AsBinaryData
.
Result = HTTPConnector.GetJson("http://httpbin.org/gzip");
Timeout can be set in AdditionalParameters.Timeout
parameter.
Response = HTTPConnector.Get("https://httpbin.org/delay/10", Undefined, New Structure("Timeout", 1));
Value by default - 30 sec.
Basic-authentification parameters can be set in AdditionalParameters.authentification
parameter.
Authentication = New Structure("User, Password", "user", "pass");
Result = HTTPConnector.GetJson(
"https://httpbin.org/basic-auth/user/pass",
Undefined,
New Structure("Authentication", Authentication));
or in URL
Result = HTTPConnector.GetJson("https://user:[email protected]/basic-auth/user/pass");
Digest-authentification parameters can be set in AdditionalParameters.authentification
parameter.
In this case Type
must be set to the value Digest
.
Authentication = New Structure("User, Password, Type", "user", "pass", "Digest");
Result = HTTPConnector.GetJson(
"https://httpbin.org/digest-auth/auth/user/pass",
Undefined,
New Structure("Authentication", Authentication));
AWS4-HMAC-SHA256-authentification parameters can be set in AdditionalParameters.authentification
parameter.
In this case Type
must be set to the value AWS4-HMAC-SHA256
and properties AccessKeyID
, SecretKey
, Service
, Region
must be filled.
Authentication = New Structure;
Authentication.Insert("Type", "AWS4-HMAC-SHA256");
Authentication.Insert("AccessKeyID", "AKIAU00002SQ4MT");
Authentication.Insert("SecretKey", "MySecretKey");
Authentication.Insert("Region", "ru-central1");
Authentication.Insert("Service", "s3");
File = New BinaryData("my_file.txt");
Headers = New Map;
Headers.Insert("Content-Type", "text/plain");
Headers.Insert("x-amz-meta-author", "Vladimir Bondarevskiy");
Headers.Insert("Expect", "100-continue");
AdditionalParameters = New Structure;
AdditionalParameters.Insert("Headers", Headers);
AdditionalParameters.Insert("Authentication", Authentication);
AdditionalParameters.Insert("Timeout", 300);
Response = HTTPConnector.Put("https://test.storage.yandexcloud.net/my_file.txt", File, AdditionalParameters);
Proxy settings can be set in the AdditionalParameters.Proxy
parameter.
Proxy = New InternetProxy;
Proxy.Set("http", "192.168.1.51", 8192);
Result = HTTPConnector.GetJson("http://httpbin.org/headers", Undefined, New Structure("Proxy", Proxy));
If your configuration based on SSL
, proxy settings will be taken from SSL
by default.
Such HTTP verbs as GET
, OPTIONS
, HEAD
, POST
, PUT
, PATCH
, DELETE
have their corresponding methods in Connector.
You can send request for any of HTTP verbs calling CallMethod
method.
Connector automatically allows redirections by default. Let's try to get a search result from Yandex (http://ya.ru).
Result = HTTPConnector.Get("http://ya.ru/", New Structure("q", "how to delete metadata cache infostart"));
What will happen actually while executing this code line:
- Connector will perform the request to URL
http://ya.ru/
- Host will require to perform a request with
https
scheme, i.e. will return the status code302
and the headerLocation
=https://ya.ru/?q=...
- Connector will perform the redirect using
https
scheme - Host will require to perform a request with another URL, i.e. will return the status code
302
and the headerLocation
=https://yandex.ru/search/?text=...
- Connector will perform the redirect to URL
https://yandex.ru/search/?text=...
- Finally, the host will response with
html
result
Auto redirection can be turned off in the parameter of argument AdditionalParameters.AllowRedirect
.
The AdditionalParameters.VerifySSL
parameter is responsible for server SSL certificate verification and which root certificates to use.
Result = HTTPConnector.Get("https://my_super_secret_server.ru/", New Structure("VerifySSL", False));
Client certificate can be set in the parameter AdditionalParameters.ClientSSLCertificate
.
ClientSSLCertificate = New FileClientCertificate("my_cert.p12", "123");
Result = HTTPConnector.Get("https://my_super_secret_server.ru/", New Structure("ClientSSLCertificate", ClientSSLCertificate));
Connector extracts cookies from response headers Set-Cookie
for future use.
Received cookies can be found in a response property Cookies
.
You can send custom cookies to the server using the parameter AdditionalParameters.Cookies
.
Cookies = New Array;
Cookies.Add(New Structure("Description,Value", "k1", String(New UUID)));
Cookies.Add(New Structure("Description,Value", "k2", String(New UUID)));
Response = HTTPConnector.Get("http://httpbin.org/cookies", Undefined, New Structure("Cookies", Cookies));
Connector allows you to persist certain parameters across requests using Session object. For this you need:
- To create a
Session
object withNewSession
method - To use the created
Session
object in every request method
For example, let's try to get a list of updates from the releases.1c.ru website.
Session = HTTPConnector.NewSession();
Response = HTTPConnector.Get("https://releases.1c.ru/total", Undefined, Undefined, Session);
Data = New Structure;
Data.Insert("execution", ExtractExecution(Response));
Data.Insert("username", Login);
Data.Insert("password", Password);
Data.Insert("_eventId", "submit");
Data.Insert("geolocation", "");
Data.Insert("submit", "Login");
Data.Insert("rememberMe", "on");
Response = HTTPConnector.Post(Response.URL, Data, Undefined, Session);
What will happen:
- Connector will perform
GET
request to URLhttps://releases.1c.ru/total
- Host will require to perform request to URL
https://login.1c.ru/login?service=https%3A%2F%2Freleases.1c.ru%2Fpublic%2Fsecurity_check
- Connector will save received cookies and perform
GET
request to URLhttps://releases.1c.ru/total
- Host will return the authorization form
- We will extract the data from the form and send them to the host together with our login and password
- Connector will perform
POST
request and send the form data with previously received cookies - Host will verify form parameters and if everything is ok issue a ticket and require to perform the request to
https://releases.1c.ru/total
- Connector will perform
GET
request to URLhttps://releases.1c.ru/total
and transfer previously received cookies - Host will response with
html
result
Then using Session
you can make requests to the server and download updates.
Connector can automatically retry connection/request sending attempts with delay. This is useful if:
- Connection is unstable
- Host is overloaded and returns 500th codes
- Host is under maintenance (reboot, configs change, update etc)
- Host limits the number of requests from the client
You can enable retries using the parameter AdditionalParameters.MaximumNumberOfRetries
, setting a value > 0.
Parameter AdditionalParameters.MaximumTimeOfRetries
allows you to limit the total time (timeouts + delays between retries).
Value by default: 10 min.
Delay duration between attempts:
- Grows exponentially (1 sec, 2 sec, 4 sec, 8 sec, 16 sec, ...). Can be adjusted by the parameter
AdditionalParameters.ExponentialDelayRatio
- For staus codes
413
,429
or503
delay duration value is taken from the headerRetry-After
(duration in seconds or the exact date).
The parameter AdditionalParameters.ToRetryForStatusesCodes
allows to set status codes, for which retry attempt should be run.
If this parameter is empty, retry attempt will run for all status codes >=500
.
AdditionalParameters = New Structure;
AdditionalParameters.Insert("MaximumNumberOfRetries", 5);
AdditionalParameters.Insert("Headers", Headers);
URL = "http://127.0.0.1:5000/retry_after_date";
Response = HTTPConnector.Get(URL, Undefined, AdditionalParameters);