Add a headers field to the Response data structure

[lewoudar]

Hello folks,
From what I know, when returning the response object, we don't have information about headers and I find it restrictive.
Ok, when instantiating the client (I'm using the v2 client) we can specify requests.Response as return_type but we lose all the advantages the tweepy.Response gives.
The issue here is that I want to know how many more requests I can make in the reserved window. I think I saw in another thread that there is a method we can call to have this issue, but... it is another network call.

My solution is to add headers information (response headers) to the response data structure. What do you think?

[Harmon758]

I'm considering changing Response based on this and other use cases, like #1989.
It would almost certainly be a breaking change though, so it would have to wait until a v5 release.

For now, as a workaround, with #1997, which resulted from a conversation about this in the Tweepy Discord server, you can use a requests.Response return_type to access the headers, before passing the JSON as a dictionary (from calling requests.Response.json) to Client._construct_response. Note, you'll also need to pass the data_type for any objects in data if you want them to be Tweepy models.

[lewoudar]

Thanks for the workaround. I will use it before the next major version is released :)