Allow injecting a requests.Session to keep logins from piling up

growattServer/base_api.py

@@ -52,13 +52,24 @@ class GrowattApi:
     server_url = "https://openapi.growatt.com/"
     agent_identifier = "Dalvik/2.1.0 (Linux; U; Android 12; https://github.com/indykoning/PyPi_GrowattServer)"
 
-    def __init__(self, add_random_user_id: bool = False, agent_identifier: str | None = None) -> None:
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        add_random_user_id: bool = False,
+        agent_identifier: str | None = None,
+        session: requests.Session | None = None,
+    ) -> None:
         """
         Initialize the Growatt API client.
 
         Args:
             add_random_user_id: Append a short random suffix to the user-agent.
             agent_identifier: Optional override for the user-agent string.
+            session: An existing :class:`requests.Session` to use instead of
+                creating a fresh one. Passing one lets a consumer share a
+                single session across API instances and restore persisted
+                cookies at startup, so a login is not needed on every call --
+                which is what drives accounts into the 507 lockout. The library
+                stores nothing itself: persistence stays the caller's business.
 
         """
         if agent_identifier is not None:
@@ -69,14 +80,19 @@ def __init__(self, add_random_user_id: bool = False, agent_identifier: str | Non
             random_number = "".join(str(secrets.randbelow(10)) for _ in range(5))
             self.agent_identifier += " - " + random_number
 
-        self.session = requests.Session()
+        self.session = session if session is not None else requests.Session()
 
         def _raise_for_status(response, *args: object, **kwargs: object) -> None:
             _ = args
             _ = kwargs
             response.raise_for_status()
 
-        self.session.hooks = {"response": [_raise_for_status]}
+        # Append rather than assign: a caller-supplied session may already carry
+        # hooks of its own, and replacing the dict would silently drop them.
+        hooks = self.session.hooks.setdefault("response", [])
+        if callable(hooks):        # requests allows a bare callable here
+            hooks = [hooks]
+        self.session.hooks["response"] = [*hooks, _raise_for_status]
 
         headers = {"User-Agent": self.agent_identifier}
         self.session.headers.update(headers)

tests/test_session_injection.py

@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+"""A caller-supplied session lets cookies survive across API instances."""
+import requests
+
+from growattServer import GrowattApi
+
+
+def test_default_still_creates_its_own_session():
+    api = GrowattApi()
+
+    assert isinstance(api.session, requests.Session)
+
+
+def test_injected_session_is_used_as_is():
+    shared = requests.Session()
+
+    api = GrowattApi(session=shared)
+
+    assert api.session is shared
+
+
+def test_two_instances_share_one_session():
+    """The point of the parameter: one login, many API objects."""
+    shared = requests.Session()
+
+    first = GrowattApi(session=shared)
+    second = GrowattApi(session=shared)
+
+    assert first.session is second.session
+
+
+def test_cookies_on_the_injected_session_survive():
+    """Restoring persisted cookies at startup is the reason this exists."""
+    shared = requests.Session()
+    shared.cookies.set("JSESSIONID", "restored-from-storage")
+
+    api = GrowattApi(session=shared)
+
+    assert api.session.cookies.get("JSESSIONID") == "restored-from-storage"
+
+
+def test_existing_hooks_on_the_injected_session_are_kept():
+    """A shared session may already carry hooks; they must not be dropped."""
+    called = []
+
+    def _mine(response, *args, **kwargs):
+        called.append(response)
+
+    shared = requests.Session()
+    shared.hooks["response"] = [_mine]
+
+    api = GrowattApi(session=shared)
+
+    assert _mine in api.session.hooks["response"]
+    assert len(api.session.hooks["response"]) == 2
+
+
+def test_bare_callable_hook_is_normalised():
+    """requests permits a single callable instead of a list."""
+    def _mine(response, *args, **kwargs):
+        pass
+
+    shared = requests.Session()
+    shared.hooks["response"] = _mine
+
+    api = GrowattApi(session=shared)
+
+    assert _mine in api.session.hooks["response"]
+
+
+def test_user_agent_is_applied_to_the_injected_session():
+    shared = requests.Session()
+
+    api = GrowattApi(session=shared, agent_identifier="my-agent")
+
+    assert shared.headers["User-Agent"] == "my-agent"