Building a resource object is easy using restkit.resource.Resource class. You just need too inherit this object and add your methods. Couchdbkit is using restkit to access to CouchDB. A resource object is an Python object associated to an URI. You can use get, post, put, delete or head method just like you do a request.
We use simplejson to handle deserialisation of data.
Here is the snippet:
from restkit import Resource
try:
import simplejson as json
except ImportError:
import json # py2.6 only
class TwitterSearch(Resource):
def __init__(self, **kwargs):
search_url = "http://search.twitter.com"
super(TwitterSearch, self).__init__(search_url, follow_redirect=True,
max_follow_redirect=10, **kwargs)
def search(self, query):
return self.get('search.json', q=query)
def request(self, *args, **kwargs):
resp = super(TwitterSearch, self).request(*args, **kwargs)
return json.loads(resp.body_string())
if __name__ == "__main__":
s = TwitterSearch()
print s.search("gunicorn")