#popit-python #

Python bindings to connect to the PopIt API. You can create, read, update and delete any items from PopIt through this Binding. Actually, this is only a convenient wrapper around PopIt's RESTful API.

First, you'll need to get the PopIt binding object. Make sure PopIt as running and that you have all the information you need. Then get the object use the PopIt constructor.

from popit import PopIt

api = PopIt(instance = 'professors', \
	hostname = '127-0-0-1.org.uk', port = 3000, api_version = 'v1', \
    user = 'test@test.co.uk', password = 'tJo1zBum')

• instance Name of the instance you created. There can be more than one for one installation.
• hostname The Hostname of the PopIt server.
• api_version The version of the PopIt API. Since there may be changes in the way you access the data in PopIt you want to have a stable API version. We recommend that you use the latest version, if possible.
• port The port, PopIt is accessible through. This probably is 80 or 3000. 80 is the default.
• user Your username. You will not be able to write anything if you haven't provided your username and password.
• password The password for the user.

This PopitWrapper lets you easily create a new item by name. This can be a person, organisation or position. There may be other options that you can find in the PopIt API documentation.

new = api.person.post({'name': 'Albert Keinstein'})
print(new)

# get the id of the newly created item
id = new['result']['_id']

The API is constantly evolving at this point so expect changes. Currently only simple searching implemented - you can search by ObjectIds and by case-insensitive string matching.

# get all people that have 'joe' in their name
results = api.person().get(name='joe')['results']

If you want to get a single item from PopIt, use name(id).

# you need a valid ID for example from the create process.
result = api.person(id).get()
print(result)

To get all Items from a kind, use name.

results = api.person.get()
print(results)

result = api.person(id).put({"name": "Albert Einstein"})
print(result)

successful = api.person(id).delete()

This is easy. This wrapper helps you with various error messages that help you get the wrapper working. Here are some explanations for error messages.

HttpClientError: Client Error 404 You are looking for an item that does not exist. Please provide a valid id. This Error can happen when you ty to create, read, update or delete an item.

HttpClientError: Client Error 401 You wanted to create, update or delete an item but provided a wrong username or password.

Note: You won't see this error before you actually try to modify any data.

SchemaError: 'foo does not exist. Try one of these schemas: organisation, position, person.' This happens when you try to get data from a schema that does not exist (in this case foo). The available schemas are determined when you first create the api object.

Enable logging.

logging.basicConfig(level = logging.WARN, format=FORMAT) 

• slumber (pip install slumber)

• Copy the config_example.py to config_test.py
• Change the entries in the testconfig.py to you local test server
• Install oktest (pip install oktest)
• Make sure PopIt is running. You cannot test this Wrapper without a running PopIt instance.
• run python test.py