Merge branch 'develop' into application-services

Conflicts:
	synapse/handlers/__init__.py
	synapse/storage/__init__.py

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/http/client.py b/synapse/http/client.py

index 7793bab106..198f575cfa 100644
--- a/synapse/http/client.py
+++ b/synapse/http/client.py
@@ -63,6 +63,25 @@ class SimpleHttpClient(object):
         defer.returnValue(json.loads(body))
 
     @defer.inlineCallbacks
+    def post_json_get_json(self, uri, post_json):
+        json_str = json.dumps(post_json)
+
+        logger.info("HTTP POST %s -> %s", json_str, uri)
+
+        response = yield self.agent.request(
+            "POST",
+            uri.encode("ascii"),
+            headers=Headers({
+                "Content-Type": ["application/json"]
+            }),
+            bodyProducer=FileBodyProducer(StringIO(json_str))
+        )
+
+        body = yield readBody(response)
+
+        defer.returnValue(json.loads(body))
+
+    @defer.inlineCallbacks
     def get_json(self, uri, args={}):
         """ Get's some json from the given host and path