def _add_nec_args()

in psaw/PushshiftAPI.py [0:0]

• 17 lines of code
• 10 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

    def _add_nec_args(self, payload):
        """Adds 'limit' and 'created_utc' arguments to the payload as necessary."""
        if self._limited(payload):
            # Do nothing I guess? Not sure how paging works on this endpoint...
            return
        if 'limit' not in payload:
            payload['limit'] = self.max_results_per_request
        if 'metadata' not in payload:
            payload['metadata'] = 'true'
        if 'sort' not in payload:
            # Getting weird results if this is not made explicit. Unclear why.
            payload['sort'] = 'desc'
        if 'filter' in payload: #and payload.get('created_utc', None) is None:
            if not isinstance(payload['filter'], list):
                if isinstance(payload['filter'], str):
                    payload['filter'] = [payload['filter']]
                else:
                    payload['filter'] = list(payload['filter'])
            if 'created_utc' not in payload['filter']:
                payload['filter'].append('created_utc')