Merge pull request #1 from KyleLeneau/add-string-url-to-builder

Adding a String constructor method for Client

Author: samstokes

.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
 /target
 **/*.rs.bk
-Cargo.lock
+Cargo.lock
+.idea
+.DS_Store

src/client.rs

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ use std::str::from_utf8;
 use futures::future::{self, Future};
 use futures::stream::Stream;
 use reqwest as r;
-use reqwest::r#async as ra;
+use reqwest::{r#async as ra, Url};
 
 /*
  * TODO remove debug output
@@ -126,10 +126,8 @@ impl Client {
     ///
     /// [`ClientBuilder`]: struct.ClientBuilder.html
     /// [`.stream()`]: #method.stream
-    pub fn for_url<U: r::IntoUrl>(url: U) -> Result<ClientBuilder> {
-        let url = url
-            .into_url()
-            .map_err(|e| Error::HttpRequest(Box::new(e)))?;
+    pub fn for_url(url: &str) -> Result<ClientBuilder> {
+        let url = Url::parse(url).map_err(|e| Error::HttpRequest(Box::new(e)))?;
         Ok(ClientBuilder {
             url: url,
             headers: r::header::HeaderMap::new(),