Wrapped HTTP requests loop in a try-except block to prevent it from breaking in case of temporary failures

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Fabio Manganiello 2018-12-05 15:55:16 +00:00
parent 791c36f5df
commit eb439d227a

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@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ class HttpRequest(object):
is_first_call = self.last_request_timestamp == 0
self.last_request_timestamp = time.time()
try:
method = getattr(requests, self.args.method.lower())
response = method(self.args.url, *self.args.args, **self.args.kwargs)
new_items = self.get_new_items(response)
@ -72,6 +73,9 @@ class HttpRequest(object):
self.bus.post(event)
response.raise_for_status()
except Exception as e:
self.logger.warning('Encountered an error while retrieving {}: {}'.
format(self.args.url, str(e)))
Thread(target=_thread_func).start()