Improve the debug mode, fixes #4

little_boxes/backend.py

@@ -8,13 +8,20 @@ import requests
 from .__version__ import __version__
 from .errors import ActivityNotFoundError
 from .errors import RemoteActivityGoneError
-from .urlutils import check_url
+from .urlutils import check_url as check_url
 
 if typing.TYPE_CHECKING:
     from little_boxes import activitypub as ap  # noqa: type checking
 
 
 class Backend(abc.ABC):
+    def debug_mode(self) -> bool:
+        """Should be overidded to return `True` in order to enable the debug mode."""
+        return False
+
+    def check_url(self, url: str) -> None:
+        check_url(url, debug=self.debug_mode())
+
     def user_agent(self) -> str:
         return (
             f"{requests.utils.default_user_agent()} (Little Boxes/{__version__};"
@@ -26,7 +33,7 @@ class Backend(abc.ABC):
         return binascii.hexlify(os.urandom(8)).decode("utf-8")
 
     def fetch_json(self, url: str, **kwargs):
-        check_url(url)
+        self.check_url(url)
         resp = requests.get(
             url,
             headers={"User-Agent": self.user_agent(), "Accept": "application/json"},
@@ -53,7 +60,7 @@ class Backend(abc.ABC):
         pass  # pragma: no cover
 
     def fetch_iri(self, iri: str, **kwargs) -> "ap.ObjectType":  # pragma: no cover
-        check_url(iri)
+        self.check_url(iri)
         resp = requests.get(
             iri,
             headers={

little_boxes/urlutils.py

@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 import ipaddress
 import logging
-import os
 import socket
 from typing import Dict
 from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
-from . import strtobool
 from .errors import Error
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@@ -18,14 +16,13 @@ class InvalidURLError(Error):
     pass
 
 
-def is_url_valid(url: str) -> bool:
+def is_url_valid(url: str, debug: bool = False) -> bool:
     parsed = urlparse(url)
     if parsed.scheme not in ["http", "https"]:
         return False
 
     # XXX in debug mode, we want to allow requests to localhost to test the federation with local instances
-    debug_mode = strtobool(os.getenv("MICROBLOGPUB_DEBUG", "false"))
+    if debug:  # pragma: no cover
-    if debug_mode:  # pragma: no cover
         return True
 
     if parsed.hostname in ["localhost"]:
@@ -56,9 +53,9 @@ def is_url_valid(url: str) -> bool:
     return True
 
 
-def check_url(url: str) -> None:
+def check_url(url: str, debug: bool = False) -> None:
-    logger.debug(f"check_url {url}")
+    logger.debug(f"check_url {url} debug={debug}")
-    if not is_url_valid(url):
+    if not is_url_valid(url, debug=debug):
         raise InvalidURLError(f'"{url}" is invalid')
 
     return None

tests/test_backend.py

@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ class InMemBackend(Backend):
 
         return calls
 
+    def debug_mode(self) -> bool:
+        return True
+
     def setup_actor(self, name, pusername):
         """Create a new actor in this backend."""
         p = ap.Person(