how to do request base_url without trailing slash?

[valq7711]

async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url='http://localhost:8000/api/books') as client:
   response = await client.request('GET', '') 

This example does request 'http://localhost:8000/api/books/', but I don't want trailing slash, how do I achieve that?

Note:
That's not the case described #2673, as final url is not empty.
The above issue is about joining - if nothing was passed => no join should be made.

[rafalkrupinski]

What's wrong with

async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url='http://localhost:8000/api') as client:
   response = await client.request('GET', 'books')

[valq7711]

the same as with

async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
   response = await client.request('GET', 'http://localhost:8000/api/books')

Under http://localhost:8000/api/books may live a whole universe of the books-api (including only the books route - yeah, people do that too, and this is by no means an exceptional case - surprise :) ), so if I have to prepend every route with 'books' (i.e. with the same repeating string) what's the point of base_url?

[rafalkrupinski]

what's the point of base_url?

So yo don't have to prepend 'http://localhost:8000/api/' to every route ;)

Or you could do this:

async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url='http://localhost:8000/api/books') as client:
   books = await client.request('GET', 'http://localhost:8000/api/books')
   other_stuff = await client.request('GET', 'other_path')

this way you need to use the full address in one corner-case.

[valq7711]

what's the point of base_url?

So yo don't have to prepend 'http://localhost:8000/api/' to every route ;)

Or you could do this:

async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url='http://localhost:8000/api/books') as client:
   books = await client.request('GET', 'http://localhost:8000/api/books')
   other_stuff = await client.request('GET', 'other_path')

this way you need to use the full address in one corner-case.

Sorry, but it is a very bad solution, as client may be passed as argument to a service, that nothing knows about base_url and before you suggest me to use something like await client.request('GET', client.base_url) keep in mind, that client.base_url returns url with trailing slash