ensures that transport.Client is closed while using cli.NewClient with *http.Client = nil.

Signed-off-by: qudongfang <qudongfang@gmail.com>
Upstream-commit: 9403a5b63e
Component: cli

components/cli/client.go

@@ -108,6 +108,19 @@ func NewClient(host string, version string, client *http.Client, httpHeaders map
 	}, nil
 }
 
+// Close ensures that transport.Client is closed
+// especially needed while using NewClient with *http.Client = nil
+// for example
+// client.NewClient("unix:///var/run/docker.sock", nil, "v1.18", map[string]string{"User-Agent": "engine-api-cli-1.0"})
+func (cli *Client) Close() error {
+
+	if t, ok := cli.client.Transport.(*http.Transport); ok {
+		t.CloseIdleConnections()
+	}
+
+	return nil
+}
+
 // getAPIPath returns the versioned request path to call the api.
 // It appends the query parameters to the path if they are not empty.
 func (cli *Client) getAPIPath(p string, query url.Values) string {