From a56e80ac65306c8ac1261b5504b8cdf4078b97e2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anglui <128720549+Anglui@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 11:48:40 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add clear_session() to NBAHTTP

- Introduce a public method to close and clear the internal _session.

- Allows users to drop rate-limited cookies.

- Prevents potential memory leaks by explicitly closing underlying TCP connections.

Motivated by issues thread: https://github.com/swar/nba_api/issues/633
---
 src/nba_api/library/http.py | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/nba_api/library/http.py b/src/nba_api/library/http.py
index aeac18ee..29d6b36e 100644
--- a/src/nba_api/library/http.py
+++ b/src/nba_api/library/http.py
@@ -78,6 +78,12 @@ def get_session(cls):
     def set_session(cls, session) -> None:
         cls._session = session
 
+    @classmethod
+    def clear_session(cls) -> None:
+        if cls._session is not None:
+            cls._session.close()
+            cls._session = None
+
     def clean_contents(self, contents):
         return contents