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diff --git a/doc/classes/HTTPRequest.xml b/doc/classes/HTTPRequest.xml
index 8cc7ecfbe3..f45ddd0abb 100644
--- a/doc/classes/HTTPRequest.xml
+++ b/doc/classes/HTTPRequest.xml
@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@
<description>
A node with the ability to send HTTP requests. Uses [HTTPClient] internally.
Can be used to make HTTP requests, i.e. download or upload files or web content via HTTP.
+ [b]Warning:[/b] See the notes and warnings on [HTTPClient] for limitations, especially regarding SSL security.
[b]Example of contacting a REST API and printing one of its returned fields:[/b]
- [codeblock]
+ [codeblocks]
+ [gdscript]
func _ready():
# Create an HTTP request node and connect its completion signal.
var http_request = HTTPRequest.new()
@@ -23,7 +25,7 @@
# Note: Don't make simultaneous requests using a single HTTPRequest node.
# The snippet below is provided for reference only.
var body = {"name": "Godette"}
- var error = http_request.request("https://httpbin.org/post", [], true, HTTPClient.METHOD_POST, body)
+ error = http_request.request("https://httpbin.org/post", [], true, HTTPClient.METHOD_POST, body)
if error != OK:
push_error("An error occurred in the HTTP request.")
@@ -34,9 +36,48 @@
# Will print the user agent string used by the HTTPRequest node (as recognized by httpbin.org).
print(response.headers["User-Agent"])
- [/codeblock]
+ [/gdscript]
+ [csharp]
+ public override void _Ready()
+ {
+ // Create an HTTP request node and connect its completion signal.
+ var httpRequest = new HTTPRequest();
+ AddChild(httpRequest);
+ httpRequest.Connect("request_completed", this, nameof(HttpRequestCompleted));
+
+ // Perform a GET request. The URL below returns JSON as of writing.
+ Error error = httpRequest.Request("https://httpbin.org/get");
+ if (error != Error.Ok)
+ {
+ GD.PushError("An error occurred in the HTTP request.");
+ }
+
+ // Perform a POST request. The URL below returns JSON as of writing.
+ // Note: Don't make simultaneous requests using a single HTTPRequest node.
+ // The snippet below is provided for reference only.
+ string[] body = { "name", "Godette" };
+ // GDScript to_json is non existent, so we use JSON.Print() here.
+ error = httpRequest.Request("https://httpbin.org/post", null, true, HTTPClient.Method.Post, JSON.Print(body));
+ if (error != Error.Ok)
+ {
+ GD.PushError("An error occurred in the HTTP request.");
+ }
+ }
+
+
+ // Called when the HTTP request is completed.
+ private void HttpRequestCompleted(int result, int response_code, string[] headers, byte[] body)
+ {
+ // GDScript parse_json is non existent so we have to use JSON.parse, which has a slightly different syntax.
+ var response = JSON.Parse(body.GetStringFromUTF8()).Result as Godot.Collections.Dictionary;
+ // Will print the user agent string used by the HTTPRequest node (as recognized by httpbin.org).
+ GD.Print((response["headers"] as Godot.Collections.Dictionary)["User-Agent"]);
+ }
+ [/csharp]
+ [/codeblocks]
[b]Example of loading and displaying an image using HTTPRequest:[/b]
- [codeblock]
+ [codeblocks]
+ [gdscript]
func _ready():
# Create an HTTP request node and connect its completion signal.
var http_request = HTTPRequest.new()
@@ -51,6 +92,9 @@
# Called when the HTTP request is completed.
func _http_request_completed(result, response_code, headers, body):
+ if result != HTTPRequest.RESULT_SUCCESS:
+ push_error("Image couldn't be downloaded. Try a different image.")
+
var image = Image.new()
var error = image.load_png_from_buffer(body)
if error != OK:
@@ -63,13 +107,50 @@
var texture_rect = TextureRect.new()
add_child(texture_rect)
texture_rect.texture = texture
- [/codeblock]
+ [/gdscript]
+ [csharp]
+ public override void _Ready()
+ {
+ // Create an HTTP request node and connect its completion signal.
+ var httpRequest = new HTTPRequest();
+ AddChild(httpRequest);
+ httpRequest.Connect("request_completed", this, nameof(HttpRequestCompleted));
+
+ // Perform the HTTP request. The URL below returns a PNG image as of writing.
+ Error error = httpRequest.Request("https://via.placeholder.com/512");
+ if (error != Error.Ok)
+ {
+ GD.PushError("An error occurred in the HTTP request.");
+ }
+ }
+
+
+ // Called when the HTTP request is completed.
+ private void HttpRequestCompleted(int result, int response_code, string[] headers, byte[] body)
+ {
+ if (result != (int)HTTPRequest.Result.Success)
+ {
+ GD.PushError("Image couldn't be downloaded. Try a different image.");
+ }
+ var image = new Image();
+ Error error = image.LoadPngFromBuffer(body);
+ if (error != Error.Ok)
+ {
+ GD.PushError("Couldn't load the image.");
+ }
+
+ var texture = new ImageTexture();
+ texture.CreateFromImage(image);
+
+ // Display the image in a TextureRect node.
+ var textureRect = new TextureRect();
+ AddChild(textureRect);
+ textureRect.Texture = texture;
+ }
+ [/csharp]
+ [/codeblocks]
- [b]Gzipped response bodies[/b]
- HttpRequest will automatically handle decompression of response bodies.
- A "Accept-Encoding" header will be automatically added to each of your requests, unless one is already specified.
- Any response with a "Content-Encoding: gzip" header will automatically be decompressed and delivered to you as a uncompressed bytes.
- [b]Note:[/b] When performing HTTP requests from a project exported to HTML5, keep in mind the remote server may not allow requests from foreign origins due to [url=https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS]CORS[/url]. If you host the server in question, you should modify its backend to allow requests from foreign origins by adding the [code]Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *[/code] HTTP header.
+ [b]Gzipped response bodies[/b]: HTTPRequest will automatically handle decompression of response bodies. A [code]Accept-Encoding[/code] header will be automatically added to each of your requests, unless one is already specified. Any response with a [code]Content-Encoding: gzip[/code] header will automatically be decompressed and delivered to you as uncompressed bytes.
</description>
<tutorials>
<link title="Making HTTP requests">https://docs.godotengine.org/en/latest/tutorials/networking/http_request_class.html</link>
@@ -77,66 +158,50 @@
</tutorials>
<methods>
<method name="cancel_request">
- <return type="void">
- </return>
+ <return type="void" />
<description>
Cancels the current request.
</description>
</method>
<method name="get_body_size" qualifiers="const">
- <return type="int">
- </return>
+ <return type="int" />
<description>
Returns the response body length.
[b]Note:[/b] Some Web servers may not send a body length. In this case, the value returned will be [code]-1[/code]. If using chunked transfer encoding, the body length will also be [code]-1[/code].
</description>
</method>
<method name="get_downloaded_bytes" qualifiers="const">
- <return type="int">
- </return>
+ <return type="int" />
<description>
Returns the amount of bytes this HTTPRequest downloaded.
</description>
</method>
<method name="get_http_client_status" qualifiers="const">
- <return type="int" enum="HTTPClient.Status">
- </return>
+ <return type="int" enum="HTTPClient.Status" />
<description>
Returns the current status of the underlying [HTTPClient]. See [enum HTTPClient.Status].
</description>
</method>
<method name="request">
- <return type="int" enum="Error">
- </return>
- <argument index="0" name="url" type="String">
- </argument>
- <argument index="1" name="custom_headers" type="PackedStringArray" default="PackedStringArray( )">
- </argument>
- <argument index="2" name="ssl_validate_domain" type="bool" default="true">
- </argument>
- <argument index="3" name="method" type="int" enum="HTTPClient.Method" default="0">
- </argument>
- <argument index="4" name="request_data" type="String" default="&quot;&quot;">
- </argument>
+ <return type="int" enum="Error" />
+ <argument index="0" name="url" type="String" />
+ <argument index="1" name="custom_headers" type="PackedStringArray" default="PackedStringArray()" />
+ <argument index="2" name="ssl_validate_domain" type="bool" default="true" />
+ <argument index="3" name="method" type="int" enum="HTTPClient.Method" default="0" />
+ <argument index="4" name="request_data" type="String" default="&quot;&quot;" />
<description>
Creates request on the underlying [HTTPClient]. If there is no configuration errors, it tries to connect using [method HTTPClient.connect_to_host] and passes parameters onto [method HTTPClient.request].
Returns [constant OK] if request is successfully created. (Does not imply that the server has responded), [constant ERR_UNCONFIGURED] if not in the tree, [constant ERR_BUSY] if still processing previous request, [constant ERR_INVALID_PARAMETER] if given string is not a valid URL format, or [constant ERR_CANT_CONNECT] if not using thread and the [HTTPClient] cannot connect to host.
- [b]Note:[/b] The [code]request_data[/code] parameter is ignored if [code]method[/code] is [constant HTTPClient.METHOD_GET]. This is because GET methods can't contain request data. As a workaround, you can pass request data as a query string in the URL. See [method String.http_escape] for an example.
+ [b]Note:[/b] The [code]request_data[/code] parameter is ignored if [code]method[/code] is [constant HTTPClient.METHOD_GET]. This is because GET methods can't contain request data. As a workaround, you can pass request data as a query string in the URL. See [method String.uri_encode] for an example.
</description>
</method>
<method name="request_raw">
- <return type="int" enum="Error">
- </return>
- <argument index="0" name="url" type="String">
- </argument>
- <argument index="1" name="custom_headers" type="PackedStringArray" default="PackedStringArray( )">
- </argument>
- <argument index="2" name="ssl_validate_domain" type="bool" default="true">
- </argument>
- <argument index="3" name="method" type="int" enum="HTTPClient.Method" default="0">
- </argument>
- <argument index="4" name="request_data_raw" type="PackedByteArray" default="PackedByteArray( )">
- </argument>
+ <return type="int" enum="Error" />
+ <argument index="0" name="url" type="String" />
+ <argument index="1" name="custom_headers" type="PackedStringArray" default="PackedStringArray()" />
+ <argument index="2" name="ssl_validate_domain" type="bool" default="true" />
+ <argument index="3" name="method" type="int" enum="HTTPClient.Method" default="0" />
+ <argument index="4" name="request_data_raw" type="PackedByteArray" default="PackedByteArray()" />
<description>
Creates request on the underlying [HTTPClient] using a raw array of bytes for the request body. If there is no configuration errors, it tries to connect using [method HTTPClient.connect_to_host] and passes parameters onto [method HTTPClient.request].
Returns [constant OK] if request is successfully created. (Does not imply that the server has responded), [constant ERR_UNCONFIGURED] if not in the tree, [constant ERR_BUSY] if still processing previous request, [constant ERR_INVALID_PARAMETER] if given string is not a valid URL format, or [constant ERR_CANT_CONNECT] if not using thread and the [HTTPClient] cannot connect to host.
@@ -147,15 +212,15 @@
<member name="accept_gzip" type="bool" setter="set_accept_gzip" getter="is_accepting_gzip" default="true">
If [code]true[/code], this header will be added to each request: [code]Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate[/code] telling servers that it's okay to compress response bodies.
Any Response body declaring a [code]Content-Encoding[/code] of either [code]gzip[/code] or [code]deflate[/code] will then be automatically decompressed, and the uncompressed bytes will be delivered via [code]request_completed[/code].
- If the user has specified their own [code]Accept-Encoding[/code] header, then no header will be added regaurdless of [code]accept_gzip[/code].
+ If the user has specified their own [code]Accept-Encoding[/code] header, then no header will be added regardless of [code]accept_gzip[/code].
If [code]false[/code] no header will be added, and no decompression will be performed on response bodies. The raw bytes of the response body will be returned via [code]request_completed[/code].
</member>
<member name="body_size_limit" type="int" setter="set_body_size_limit" getter="get_body_size_limit" default="-1">
Maximum allowed size for response bodies. If the response body is compressed, this will be used as the maximum allowed size for the decompressed body.
</member>
- <member name="download_chunk_size" type="int" setter="set_download_chunk_size" getter="get_download_chunk_size" default="4096">
+ <member name="download_chunk_size" type="int" setter="set_download_chunk_size" getter="get_download_chunk_size" default="65536">
The size of the buffer used and maximum bytes to read per iteration. See [member HTTPClient.read_chunk_size].
- Set this to a higher value (e.g. 65536 for 64 KiB) when downloading large files to achieve better speeds at the cost of memory.
+ Set this to a lower value (e.g. 4096 for 4 KiB) when downloading small files to decrease memory usage at the cost of download speeds.
</member>
<member name="download_file" type="String" setter="set_download_file" getter="get_download_file" default="&quot;&quot;">
The file to download into. Will output any received file into it.
@@ -171,14 +236,10 @@
</members>
<signals>
<signal name="request_completed">
- <argument index="0" name="result" type="int">
- </argument>
- <argument index="1" name="response_code" type="int">
- </argument>
- <argument index="2" name="headers" type="PackedStringArray">
- </argument>
- <argument index="3" name="body" type="PackedByteArray">
- </argument>
+ <argument index="0" name="result" type="int" />
+ <argument index="1" name="response_code" type="int" />
+ <argument index="2" name="headers" type="PackedStringArray" />
+ <argument index="3" name="body" type="PackedByteArray" />
<description>
Emitted when a request is completed.
</description>