Add a default timeout parameter to retrieve_json

DataDog · Mar 11, 2016 · 15efe5e · 15efe5e
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commit 15efe5e
Showing 1 changed file with 6 additions and 2 deletions.
diff --git a/utils/http.py b/utils/http.py
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 import requests
 
-def retrieve_json(url):
-    r = requests.get(url)
+
+DEFAULT_TIMEOUT = 10
+
+
+def retrieve_json(url, timeout=DEFAULT_TIMEOUT):
+    r = requests.get(url, timeout=timeout)
     r.raise_for_status()
     return r.json()