def get_changed_records( self, db=None, clear=False ):
"""
Another special case of get_records(), to only return changed records
(new or modified). Optionally, this will clear the change flags.
"""
api = 'API_DoQuery'
if not db:
db = self.active_db
options = 'sortorder-A.onlynew'
xml = (
E.qdbapi(
E.ticket(self.auth_ticket),
E.apptoken(self.token),
E.options(options),
)
)
response = self._perform(db=db, xml=xml, api=api)
# Now, clear the flags
if clear:
self._clear_flags(db=db)
return response
def get_record( self, db=None, number='' ):
"""
Get a single record by record id. This is non-standard, but I needed
its functionality, and so here it is. Strictly speaking, this is just
a special case of the get_records() function, and should be deprecated
at some point.
"""
api = 'API_DoQuery'
if not db:
db = self.active_db
schema = self.get_schema(db=db)
for node in schema.findall('table/fields/field'):
if node.attrib['field_type'] == 'recordid':
field = node.get('id')
break
query = "{'%s'.EX.'%s'}" % (field, number)
xml = (
E.qdbapi(
E.ticket(self.auth_ticket),
E.apptoken(self.token),
E.query(query),
)
)
return self._perform(db=db, xml=xml, api=api)
def get_schema( self, db='' ):
"""
API function to get the schema for a particular database id."
API_GetSchema:
http://www.quickbase.com/api-guide/getschema.html
"""
api = 'API_GetSchema'
xml = (
E.qdbapi(
E.ticket(self.auth_ticket),
E.apptoken(self.token),
)
)
schema = self._perform(db=db, xml=xml, api=api)
return schema
def get_records( self, db=None, conditions={} ):
"""
API function to perform a query and return record(s) which satisfy
the query.
API_DoQuery:
http://www.quickbase.com/api-guide/do_query.html
"""
if not conditions:
raise Exception, "No query parameters specified."
api = 'API_DoQuery'
if not db:
db = self.active_db
query = []
schema = self.get_schema(db=db)
for field in conditions:
for f in schema.findall('table/fields/field'):
if f.findtext('label') == field:
for bounds in conditions[field]:
query.append(
"{'%s'.%s.'%s'}" % (
f.get('id'),
xtn_map[bounds],
conditions[field][bounds]
)
)
xml = (
E.qdbapi(
E.ticket(self.auth_ticket),
E.apptoken(self.token),
E.query('AND'.join(query)),
E.clist('a'),
)
)
return self._perform(db=db, xml=xml, api=api)
def get_all_records( self, db='' ):
"""
By default, the API_DoQuery function simply returns all records
if no conditions are satisfied. So we do that here. This is, again,
a special case of get_records() and should probably be deprecated.
"""
api = 'API_DoQuery'
if not db:
db = self.active_db
xml = (
E.qdbapi(
E.ticket(self.auth_ticket),
E.apptoken(self.token),
E.query(),
E.clist('a'),
)
)
return self._perform(db=db, xml=xml, api=api)