open-uri defines URI.open defined as an alias.

open-uri's Kernel.open will be deprecated in future.



git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@61392 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

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@@ -295,6 +295,10 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file or Redmine
   * Net::HTTP#{proxy_user,proxy_pass} reflect http_proxy environment variable
     if the system's environment variable is multiuser safe. [Bug #12921]
 
+* open-uri
+  * URI.open method defined as an alias to open-uri's Kernel.open.
+    open-uri's Kernel.open will be deprecated in future.
+
 * OpenSSL
 
   * Updated Ruby/OpenSSL from version 2.0 to 2.1. Changes are noted in

lib/open-uri.rb

@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ module Kernel
   module_function :open
 end
 
+module URI #:nodoc:
+  # alias for Kernel.open defined in open-uri.
+  def self.open(name, *rest, &block)
+    Kernel.open(name, *rest, &block)
+  end
+end
+
 # OpenURI is an easy-to-use wrapper for Net::HTTP, Net::HTTPS and Net::FTP.
 #
 # == Example

test/open-uri/test_open-uri.rb

@@ -68,6 +68,16 @@ class TestOpenURI < Test::Unit::TestCase
     @proxies.each_with_index {|k, i| ENV[k] = @old_proxies[i] }
   end
 
+  def test_200_uri_open
+    with_http {|srv, dr, url|
+      srv.mount_proc("/urifoo200", lambda { |req, res| res.body = "urifoo200" } )
+      URI.open("#{url}/urifoo200") {|f|
+        assert_equal("200", f.status[0])
+        assert_equal("urifoo200", f.read)
+      }
+    }
+  end
+
   def test_200
     with_http {|srv, dr, url|
       srv.mount_proc("/foo200", lambda { |req, res| res.body = "foo200" } )