client/gentoostats/utils.py


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import json
import httplib

# json headers for gentoostats-cli
headers = {'Accept': 'application/json'}

def GET(server, url, headers, https=True):
    """
    Get url from server using headers 
    """
    if https:
        conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection(server)
    else:
        conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(server)
    try:
        conn.request('GET', url=url, headers=headers)
        data = conn.getresponse().read()
    except httplib.HTTPException:
        return None
    finally:
        if conn:
            conn.close()
    return data

def deserialize(object):
    """
    Decode json object
    """
    try:
        decoded = json.JSONDecoder().decode(object)
    except (ValueError, TypeError):
        return None
    return decoded