http_condition: Generate a classed http condition.

In httr: Tools for Working with URLs and HTTP

Generate a classed http condition.

Description

This function generate S3 condition objects which are passed to stop() or warning() to generate classes warnings and error. These can be used in conjunction with tryCatch() to respond differently to different type of failure.

Usage

http_condition(x, type, task = NULL, call = sys.call(-1))

Arguments

x	a response, or numeric http code (or other object with status_code method)
type	type of condition to generate. Must be one of error, warning or message.
task	The text of the message: either NULL or a character vector. If non-NULL, the error message will finish with "Failed to task".
call	The call stored in the condition object.

Value

An S3 object that inherits from (e.g.) condition, type, http_error, http_400 and http_404.

See Also

http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Exceptions-Debugging.html#condition-handling for more details about R's condition handling model

Examples

## Not run: 
# You can use tryCatch to take different actions based on the type
# of error. Note that tryCatch will call the first handler that
# matches any classes of the condition, not the best matching, so
# always list handlers from most specific to least specific
f <- function(url) {
  tryCatch(stop_for_status(GET(url)),
    http_404 = function(c) "That url doesn't exist",
    http_403 = function(c) "You need to authenticate!",
    http_400 = function(c) "You made a mistake!",
    http_500 = function(c) "The server screwed up"
  )
}
f("http://httpbin.org/status/404")
f("http://httpbin.org/status/403")
f("http://httpbin.org/status/505")

## End(Not run)

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