Provide support for python 'requests' library about pybridge

[joaoventura]

Can I suggest you to try to implement a simple example using just python's httplib, and not using requests? Maybe there are some android permissions that are blocking your http requests..

[trbedwards]

I've constructed an example which uses http.client (the python3 version of httplib).

In bootstrap.py:

from http.client import HTTPConnection

def router(args):
    # same as usual

def http_request(args):
    conn = HTTPConnection("www.google.com")
    print("sending request")
    conn.request("GET", "/")
    print("getting response")
    r1 = conn.getresponse()
    print(r1.status, r1.reason)
    return str(r1.status)

routes = {
    'http_request' : http_request
}

and in MainActivity.java we call json.put("function", "http_request").

I get the same errors as before. If I don't copy _socket.so and the other .so files into the python directory I get ImportError: no module named '_socket'. If I do copy all the .so files, then I get a SIGSEGV error which I've tracked down to a call of the _socket.getaddrinfo function.

[trbedwards]

Ah, you were right about the android permissions!
I added the following line to my AndroidManifests.xml file:

Now everything works :)

[trbedwards]

How do I then tell pybridge to use the correct architecture specific _socket.so file? At the moment I'm manually copying _socket.so from the arm64-v8a libs in the crystax ndk, but I guess there's a more elegant automated way to do this?

[joaoventura]

Glad it worked for you.. 👍
I don't have any solution to automatically copy python files by architecture as I want to keep pybridge simple to understand and "hack"..