Extend Requester interface with a way to ignore errors

2 files changed, 30 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/src/mining/AbstractRequester.java b/src/mining/AbstractRequester.java
index 1e66668..ff4a255 100644
--- a/src/mining/AbstractRequester.java
+++ b/src/mining/AbstractRequester.java
@@ -26,6 +26,16 @@ public abstract class AbstractRequester implements Requester {
 
     @Override
     public JSONObject getJSON(String resource) throws IOException {
+        return getJSON(resource, true);
+    }
+
+    @Override
+    public JSONObject getJSONRelax(String resource) throws IOException {
+        return getJSON(resource, false);
+    }
+
+    private JSONObject getJSON(String resource, boolean checkStatusCode)
+            throws IOException {
         HttpURLConnection conn = open(buildUrl(resource));
         preconnect(conn);
         JSONObject resp = getResponseAsJson(conn);
@@ -37,7 +47,7 @@ public abstract class AbstractRequester implements Requester {
             } catch (JSONException ex) {
             }
         }
-        if (conn.getResponseCode() != 200) {
+        if (checkStatusCode && conn.getResponseCode() != 200) {
             // TODO: print more helpful details
             throw new IOException("Unexpected response code");
         }
diff --git a/src/mining/Requester.java b/src/mining/Requester.java
index df6053f..2e0e067 100644
--- a/src/mining/Requester.java
+++ b/src/mining/Requester.java
@@ -21,5 +21,23 @@ public interface Requester {
      */
     public JSONObject getJSON(String resource) throws IOException;
 
-    // TODO: retry (after sleeping) on ratelimit
+    /**
+     * Almost equivalent to {@code getJSON(resource, true)}, except that an
+     * IOException is not thrown if the request reports an non-successful status
+     * code.
+     *
+     * @see Requester#getJSON(java.lang.String, boolean)
+     * @throws IOException on network errors or if the response could not be
+     * parsed into a valid JSONObject.
+     */
+    public JSONObject getJSONRelax(String resource) throws IOException;
+
+    /**
+     * Tests whether this instance can dispatch requests.
+     *
+     * @return true if the access tokens are valid, false otherwise.
+     * @throws java.io.IOException if the status cannot reliably be determined
+     * (e.g. network error, parsing error).
+     */
+    public boolean isValid() throws IOException;
 }