Fetching an API resource by url

[mattaustin]

I'm working with an API that does not provide ids/slugs for resource identifiers, as it expects you to use the url.

It's difficult to use Slumber to fetch a given resource outright (e.g. from a saved setting), such as 'http://example.com/api/resources/example-resource'.

I'm making extensive use of Slumber in my project, so I'd like to continue using it's 'api' object, rather than constructing requests manually.

If I create a new API object using the resource's url as the base url (not particularly desirable anyway), then I run in to the issue described in #28:

api = slumber.API('http://example.com/api/resources/example-resource/')
api.get()  # Just returns a slumber resource, and does not make the request

I've resorted to the following pattern for now:

api = slumber.API('http://example.com/api/')
resource_url = 'http://example.com/api/resources/example-resource/'
identity = resource_url.replace(api.resources.url(), '').rstrip('/')
response = api.resources(identity).get()

Is fetching a particular resource by it's absolute url a common pattern/requirement for others, and is this something that could be added to Slumber? I'm not sure what the desirable slumber-api would be, but if there is a good suggestion I could make a pull request.

[mattaustin]

I've just discovered that using url_override is also a workaround - I'll use this method for the time-being, but there are comments for this kwarg that warn it's a bit of a hack.

api.resources(url_override='http://example.com/api/resources/example-resource/').get()