Merge #188: BaseProxy: allow to specify custom connection

526b862 BaseProxy: allow to specify custom connection (Dmitry Petukhov)

Pull request description:

  This allows to handle disconnects and reconnections
  outside the library, by supplying your own
  connection object instead of httplib.HTTPConnection

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Tree-SHA512: a41adbfd18418c3894abd591616f474fa35126e4e3a3364469d30e766dedad5443274b04532a33bf3cdb26ad8a9402c2230ac09a94f5b6e60ef0f4a9356d0521

Author: petertodd

bitcoin/rpc.py

@@ -123,7 +123,8 @@ def __init__(self,
                  service_url=None,
                  service_port=None,
                  btc_conf_file=None,
-                 timeout=DEFAULT_HTTP_TIMEOUT):
+                 timeout=DEFAULT_HTTP_TIMEOUT,
+                 connection=None):
 
         # Create a dummy connection early on so if __init__() fails prior to
         # __conn being created __del__() can detect the condition and handle it
@@ -204,8 +205,11 @@ def __init__(self,
             authpair = authpair.encode('utf8')
             self.__auth_header = b"Basic " + base64.b64encode(authpair)
 
-        self.__conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(self.__url.hostname, port=port,
-                                             timeout=timeout)
+        if connection:
+            self.__conn = connection
+        else:
+            self.__conn = httplib.HTTPConnection(self.__url.hostname, port=port,
+                                                 timeout=timeout)
 
     def _call(self, service_name, *args):
         self.__id_count += 1