Add DummyCookieJar helper

CHANGES.rst

@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Changes
 
 - Add `proxy_from_env` to `ClientRequest` to read from environment variables. #1791
 
+- Add DummyCookieJar helper. #1830
+
 
 2.0.7 (2017-04-12)
 ------------------

CONTRIBUTORS.txt

@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ Sviatoslav Bulbakha
 Taha Jahangir
 Taras Voinarovskyi
 Terence Honles
+Thanos Lefteris
 Thomas Grainger
 Tolga Tezel
 Vaibhav Sagar

aiohttp/helpers.py

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 from async_timeout import timeout
 
 from . import hdrs
+from .abc import AbstractCookieJar
 
 try:
     from asyncio import ensure_future
@@ -39,7 +40,7 @@
 
 
 __all__ = ('BasicAuth', 'create_future', 'parse_mimetype',
-           'Timeout', 'ensure_future', 'noop')
+           'Timeout', 'ensure_future', 'noop', 'DummyCookieJar')
 
 
 sentinel = object()
@@ -762,3 +763,30 @@ def content_length(self, *, _CONTENT_LENGTH=hdrs.CONTENT_LENGTH):
             return None
         else:
             return int(l)
+
+
+class DummyCookieJar(AbstractCookieJar):
+    """Implements a dummy cookie storage.
+    
+    It can be used with the ClientSession when no cookie processing is needed.
+    
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, *, loop=None):
+        super().__init__(loop=loop)
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        while False:
+            yield None
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        return 0
+
+    def clear(self):
+        pass
+
+    def update_cookies(self, cookies, response_url=None):
+        pass
+
+    def filter_cookies(self, request_url):
+        return None

docs/client_reference.rst

@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ The client session supports the context manager protocol for self closing.
       One example is not processing cookies at all when working in
       proxy mode.
 
+      If no cookie processing is needed, a :class:`aiohttp.helpers.DummyCookieJar`
+      instance can be provided.
+
       .. versionadded:: 0.22
 
    :param callable json_serialize: Json `serializer` function. (:func:`json.dumps` by default)

tests/test_helpers.py

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 from unittest import mock
 
 import pytest
+from yarl import URL
 
 from aiohttp import helpers
 
@@ -533,3 +534,15 @@ def test_set_content_disposition_bad_param():
     with pytest.raises(ValueError):
         helpers.content_disposition_header('inline',
                                            **{'foo\x00bar': 'baz'})
+
+
+def test_dummy_cookie_jar(loop):
+    cookie = helpers.SimpleCookie('foo=bar; Domain=example.com;')
+    dummy_jar = helpers.DummyCookieJar(loop=loop)
+    assert len(dummy_jar) == 0
+    dummy_jar.update_cookies(cookie)
+    assert len(dummy_jar) == 0
+    with pytest.raises(StopIteration):
+        next(iter(dummy_jar))
+    assert dummy_jar.filter_cookies(URL("http://example.com/")) is None
+    dummy_jar.clear()