fix infinite loop update checker in a specific condition

close issue https://github.com/httpie/cli/issues/1527

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/).
 - Removed support for keeping the original casing of HTTP headers. This come from an outer constraint by newer protocols, namely HTTP/2+ that normalize header keys by default.
   From the HTTPie user perspective, they are "prettified" on the output by default. e.g. "x-hello-world" is displayed as "X-Hello-World".
 - Fixed multipart form data having filename not rfc2231 compliant when name contain non-ascii characters. ([#1401](https://github.com/httpie/cli/issues/1401))
+- Fixed issue where the configuration directory was not created at runtime that made the update fetcher run everytime. ([#1527](https://github.com/httpie/cli/issues/1527))
 
 The plugins are expected to work without any changes. The only caveat would be that certain plugin explicitly require `requests`.
 Future contributions may be made in order to relax the constraints where applicable.

httpie/config.py

@@ -143,6 +143,10 @@ class Config(BaseConfigDict):
     def __init__(self, directory: Union[str, Path] = DEFAULT_CONFIG_DIR):
         self.directory = Path(directory)
         super().__init__(path=self.directory / self.FILENAME)
+        # this one ensure we do not init HTTPie without the proper config directory
+        # there's an issue where the fetch_update daemon run without having the directory present. that induce a
+        # loop trying to fetch latest versions information.
+        self.ensure_directory()
         self.update(self.DEFAULTS)
 
     @property

httpie/internal/daemons.py

@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ def _spawn(args: List[str], process_context: ProcessContext) -> None:
         _spawn_posix(args, process_context)
 
 
-def spawn_daemon(task: str) -> None:
+def spawn_daemon(task: str, *args: str) -> None:
-    args = [task, '--daemon']
+    args = [task, '--daemon', *args]
     process_context = os.environ.copy()
     if not is_frozen:
         file_path = os.path.abspath(inspect.stack()[0][1])

httpie/internal/update_warnings.py

@@ -37,16 +37,34 @@ def _read_data_error_free(file: Path) -> Any:
         return {}
 
 
-def _fetch_updates(env: Environment) -> str:
+def _fetch_updates(env: Environment) -> None:
     file = env.config.version_info_file
     data = _read_data_error_free(file)
 
-    response = niquests.get(PACKAGE_INDEX_LINK)
+    try:
-    response.raise_for_status()
+        # HTTPie have a server that can return latest versions for various
+        # package channels, we shall attempt to retrieve this information once in a while
+        if hasattr(env.args, "verify"):
+            if env.args.verify.lower() in {"yes", "true", "no", "false"}:
+                verify = env.args.verify.lower() in {"yes", "true"}
+            else:
+                verify = env.args.verify
+        else:
+            verify = True
+
+        response = niquests.get(PACKAGE_INDEX_LINK, verify=verify)
+        response.raise_for_status()
+        versions = response.json()
+    except (niquests.exceptions.ConnectionError, niquests.exceptions.HTTPError):
+        # in case of an error, let's ignore to avoid looping indefinitely.
+        # (spawn daemon background task maybe_fetch_update)
+        versions = {
+            BUILD_CHANNEL: httpie.__version__
+        }
 
     data.setdefault('last_warned_date', None)
     data['last_fetched_date'] = datetime.now().isoformat()
-    data['last_released_versions'] = response.json()
+    data['last_released_versions'] = versions
 
     with open_with_lockfile(file, 'w') as stream:
         json.dump(data, stream)
@@ -54,7 +72,7 @@ def _fetch_updates(env: Environment) -> str:
 
 def fetch_updates(env: Environment, lazy: bool = True):
     if lazy:
-        spawn_daemon('fetch_updates')
+        spawn_daemon('fetch_updates', f'--verify={env.args.verify}')
     else:
         _fetch_updates(env)
 

tests/test_config.py

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import os.path
 from pathlib import Path
 
 import pytest
@@ -23,6 +24,20 @@ def test_default_options(httpbin):
     }
 
 
+def test_config_dir_is_created():
+    dir_path = str(get_default_config_dir()) + "--fake"
+
+    try:
+        os.rmdir(dir_path)
+    except FileNotFoundError:
+        pass
+
+    assert not os.path.exists(dir_path)
+    Config(dir_path)
+    assert os.path.exists(dir_path)
+    os.rmdir(dir_path)
+
+
 def test_config_file_not_valid(httpbin):
     env = MockEnvironment()
     env.create_temp_config_dir()