Source code for libqtile.widget.gen_poll_url

import json
from typing import Any

import aiohttp

from libqtile.log_utils import logger
from libqtile.widget import base

try:
    import xmltodict

    def xmlparse(body):
        return xmltodict.parse(body)

except ImportError:
    # TODO: we could implement a similar parser by hand, but i'm lazy, so let's
    # punt for now
    def xmlparse(body):
        raise Exception("no xmltodict library")


[docs] class GenPollUrl(base.BackgroundPoll): """A generic text widget that polls an url and parses it using parse function Widget requirements: aiohttp_. .. _aiohttp: https://pypi.org/project/aiohttp/ """ defaults: list[tuple[str, Any, str]] = [ ("url", None, "Url"), ("data", None, "Post Data"), ("parse", None, "Parse Function"), ("json", True, "Is Json?"), ("user_agent", "Qtile", "Set the user agent"), ("headers", {}, "Extra Headers"), ("xml", False, "Is XML?"), ] def __init__(self, **config): base.BackgroundPoll.__init__(self, "", **config) self.add_defaults(GenPollUrl.defaults) self.headers["User-agent"] = self.user_agent if self.json: self.headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json" if self.data and not isinstance(self.data, str): self.data = json.dumps(self.data).encode() async def apoll(self): if not self.parse or not self.url: return "Invalid config" headers = self.headers.copy() data = self.data try: async with aiohttp.ClientSession() as session: async with session.request( method="POST" if data else "GET", url=self.url, data=data, headers=headers ) as response: if self.json: body = await response.json() elif self.xml: text_body = await response.text() body = xmlparse(text_body) else: body = await response.text() text = self.parse(body) except Exception: logger.exception("got exception polling widget") text = "Can't parse" return text