Question

I want to know that what type of object is returned by the request object in scrapy

http://doc.scrapy.org/en/latest/topics/request-response.html

Suppose this is my request

myrequest = Request("http://www.example.com",  callback = self.mytest)

Now i want to know what will be in the myrequest variable.

is there any way to override the Request object because i want to create MYREQUEST which returns response object so that i can acess resposne.body , resposne.url

myvar =MYREQUEST("http://www.example.com",  callback = self.mytest)

then i can access myvar.body and myvar.url

I could not find Request Class defination from git hub where is that class defined.
i can oly find request folder there but not Request Class
https://github.com/scrapy/scrapy/tree/master/scrapy/http

Answer 1

Request is a class, so you are not calling a function here, what really happens is that you created a Request object and assigned it to myreqeust.

As stated in Scrapy‘s documentation:

The callback function will be called with the downloaded Response
object as its first argument.