Migrating from requests: stream=True in Client.request

[jamesbraza]

I am working with a Google library that uses transport.request(..., **kwargs) with a kwarg of stream=True: https://github.com/googleapis/google-resumable-media-python/blob/v2.7.0/google/resumable_media/requests/download.py#L210

This library was designed to work with requests. I am trying to use httpx.Client for this, and am getting: TypeError: httpx.Client.request() got an unexpected keyword argument 'stream'

I see in the docs: https://www.python-httpx.org/compatibility/#streaming-responses
That the httpx interface is with client.stream(...).

How can I get httpx.Client.request to work with stream=True keyword argument?

[kchen]

While I was searching the issues section previously, I had found #830, which indicates that the way to do this if you can't use with client.stream() is:

client = httpx.Client()
request = client.build_request("GET", url)
response = client.send(request, stream=True)

and then making sure to call response.close() when ready, since that will not be automatically handled.