A simple python wrapper around win32com OLE functionality to make OLE automation with Baan/Infor LN easier to use.
Instead of having to write
from win32com.client.dynamic import Dispatch
# Modify 'Baan.Application.erpln' to the Class Name in the BW configuration if necessary
baan = Dispatch('Baan.Application.erpln')
baan.Timeout = 3600
baan.ParseExecFunction(
"odll_name",
'some.function.name("with", "a", "few", "arguments")'
)
baan.Quit()It gets especially annoying if you want to use variables from your python scripts, as you'll always have to construct the string:
'some.function.name("{0}")'.format(var)baanlib makes all that a little bit easier:
from baanlib import Baan
with Baan('Baan.Application.erpln') as b:
b.odll_name.some.function.name("with", "a", "few", "arguments")
var = 1
foo = 'test'
b.odll_name.some.function.name(var, foo)To further reduce the amount of typing required, the api can also be used like this:
with Baan('Baan.Application.erpln') as b:
f = b.ottstpapihand
put = f.stpapi.put.field
put("sessioncode", "fieldname1", "value1")
put("sessioncode", "fieldname2", "value2")
f.end.session("sessioncode")Baanlib requires the pywin32 extensions which are available on sourceforge.
Once the pywin32 requirement is met, baanlib can be installed using pip.
pip install --upgrade baanlib