Added support for explicit proxy to RequestsHttpConnection

Signed-off-by: Filipe Pina <[email protected]>

Author: fopina

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Inspired from [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/)
 - Small refactor of AWS Signer classes for both sync and async clients ([866](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/pull/866))
 - Small refactor to fix overwriting the module files when generating apis ([874](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/pull/874))
 - Fixed a "type ignore" lint error
+- Added support for explicit proxy to RequestsHttpConnection ([908](https://github.com/opensearch-project/opensearch-py/pull/908))
 ### Deprecated
 ### Removed
 ### Fixed

opensearchpy/connection/http_requests.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 
 import time
 import warnings
-from typing import Any, Collection, Mapping, Optional, Union
+from typing import Any, Collection, Dict, Mapping, Optional, Union
 
 try:
     import requests
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ class RequestsHttpConnection(Connection):
     :arg metrics: metrics is an instance of a subclass of the
         :class:`~opensearchpy.Metrics` class, used for collecting
         and reporting metrics related to the client's operations;
+    :arg proxies: optional dictionary mapping protocol to the URL of the proxy.
     """
 
     def __init__(
@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@ def __init__(
         opaque_id: Any = None,
         pool_maxsize: Any = None,
         metrics: Metrics = MetricsNone(),
+        proxies: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
         **kwargs: Any,
     ) -> None:
         self.metrics = metrics
@@ -132,6 +134,9 @@ def __init__(
                 http_auth = tuple(http_auth.split(":", 1))  # type: ignore
             self.session.auth = http_auth
 
+        if proxies is not None:
+            self.session.proxies = proxies
+
         self.base_url = f"{self.host}{self.url_prefix}"
         self.session.verify = verify_certs
         if not client_key: