def getForecastResponseFromRequest():
'''
Method of sending a request to the Dark Sky API, then handling the response by calling on the .json() method to convert the response to a Python Dict object.
Output:
1. data_dict :: Python dict object containing key-value pairs for hourly data fetched from api.darksky.net
'''
data_dict = api.getForecastDataFromDarkSky('Vancouver Canada')
data_dict = data_dict.json()
return data_dict
def getForecastWeatherAlerts(address):
'''
Method to fetch forecasted weather alerts.
This method will accept the a Python dict as Input and print out the alerts as a string.
Input:
1. address :: Python Str object specifying the address for where forecast weather alerts is to be fetched for.
Output:
2. Alert Msg :: A string object outputing the alerts from the alerts attribute (which is an array of objects - with following attributes:
- description (string)
- expires (unix time stamp)
- regions affected (array)
- severity (string)
- time of alert (unix time stamp)
- title (string)
- uri (string)
'''
darksky_response = api.getForecastDataFromDarkSky(address)
json_data_dict = darksky_response.json()
weather_alerts_content = json_data_dict['alerts'][1]
weather_alert_out = \
'''
*** %s ***
%s
Regions Affected:
%s
Severity:
%s
Time:
%s
''' % (
weather_alerts_content['title'],
weather_alerts_content['description'],
weather_alerts_content['regions'],
weather_alerts_content['severity'],
api.getHumanReadableTimeFromUnixTimeStamp(weather_alerts_content['time'])
)
return weather_alert_out
def get_hourly_data():
# kwkw - WIP - will have to refadtor once MVP website is built up.
forecast_response = api.getForecastDataFromDarkSky('Vancouver Canada')
# kwkw - WIP - hourly data returns an array of
hourly_forecast = dsky.getHourlyForecastData(forecast_response.json())
return jsonify(hourly_forecast)
def get_daily_data():
# kwkw - WIP - will have to refactor once full MVP is constructed.
forecast_response = api.getForecastDataFromDarkSky('Vancouver Canada')
daily_forecast = dsky.getDailyForecastData(forecast_response.json())
return jsonify(daily_forecast)
def get_index():
forecast = api.getForecastDataFromDarkSky('Vancouver Canada')
# kwkw - returns a python dict
data = forecast.json()
return jsonify(data)