Native support for QUERY method

[giladshay]

There has been a new RFC of HTTP supporting a new method called QUERY.

This new method seems very useful and I thought it would be spread abroad if the support in this new method would be natively. I would like to write something like `httpx.query(, **kwargs)```.

Of course we could use the new method already with httpx.request(<URL>, method="QUERY", **kwargs), but using request and defining the method seems odd.

[kevnantony]

Hi @giladshay!

How to use client.query(...) right now

You can easily add a .query() shortcut today by subclassing httpx.Client:

import httpx

class Client(httpx.Client):
    def query(self, url: str, **kwargs):
        return self.request("QUERY", url, **kwargs)

# Usage:
with Client() as client:
    response = client.query("https://example.org/search", json={"filter": "active"})
    print(response.json())

Will HTTPX add native httpx.query()?

Right now, HTTPX only has built-in shortcuts (.get(), .post(), etc.) for standard RFC 9110 methods.

Because RFC 10008 was just recently published as an official standard, most HTTP libraries wait for wider server and proxy adoption before adding new top-level shortcuts.

However, since QUERY is now an official standard, opening a Pull Request or formal feature request to add .query() to HTTPX core would be very reasonable!