Jolokia API request with python

jolokia.py

from __future__ import with_statement


import argparse
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth
from contextlib import closing


class PyJmx:
    """
    Created class instances can/should be kept around and reused
    as they use requests.Session, which keep-alive the TCP connection
    """

    def __init__(self, url, login, password):
        self.session = requests.Session()
        self.url = url
        self.auth = HTTPBasicAuth(login, password)

    def mget(self, mbean, attrs):
        with closing(self.session.post(self.url, auth=self.auth, json={
            'type': 'read',
            'mbean': mbean,
            'attribute': attrs
        })) as response:
            response.raise_for_status()
            return response.json()

    def close(self):
        self.session.close()