BaseAdapter Class — requests Architecture

Source Code

src/requests/adapters.py lines 115–142

class BaseAdapter:
    """The Base Transport Adapter"""

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()

    def send(
        self, request, stream=False, timeout=None, verify=True, cert=None, proxies=None
    ):
        """Sends PreparedRequest object. Returns Response object.

        :param request: The :class:`PreparedRequest <PreparedRequest>` being sent.
        :param stream: (optional) Whether to stream the request content.
        :param timeout: (optional) How long to wait for the server to send
            data before giving up, as a float, or a :ref:`(connect timeout,
            read timeout) <timeouts>` tuple.
        :type timeout: float or tuple
        :param verify: (optional) Either a boolean, in which case it controls whether we verify
            the server's TLS certificate, or a string, in which case it must be a path
            to a CA bundle to use
        :param cert: (optional) Any user-provided SSL certificate to be trusted.
        :param proxies: (optional) The proxies dictionary to apply to the request.
        """
        raise NotImplementedError

    def close(self):
        """Cleans up adapter specific items."""
        raise NotImplementedError