A collection of CLI and RESTful interfaces to Millennium WebPAC.
This tools provides a command line interface to WebPAC functions.
You must specify the Millennium server, either through the --server parameter, or by setting the environment variable WEBPAC_SERVER.
Other environment variables supported:
WEBPAC_PORT-- sets the web server port for the WebPAC server (default: 443)
$ webpac --help
usage: webpac [-h] [--server SERVER] [--port PORT] [--no_ssl] [--debug]
{change_pin,modify_contact_info,register,acquire,get_contact_info,pin_reset}
...
Provides a CLI wrapper to Millennium WebPAC functions.
positional arguments:
{change_pin,modify_contact_info,register,acquire,get_contact_info,pin_reset}
sub-command help
change_pin change patron's PIN
modify_contact_info
modify patron's contact information
register register a new patron
acquire submit a suggestion for purchase
get_contact_info get patron's current contact information
pin_reset resets a patron's PIN
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--server SERVER hostname or IP of Millennium server
--port PORT remote WebPAC port on the Millennium server (default:
443)
--no_ssl disable server connection
--debug enable diagnostic output
usage: webpac acquire [-h]
BARCODE PIN AUTHOR TITLE PUBLISHER ISBN TYPE SUBJECT
positional arguments:
BARCODE patron's barcode
PIN patron's PIN
AUTHOR author
TITLE title
PUBLISHER publisher
ISBN issn/isbn
TYPE type [BOOK|AUDIOBOOK|EBOOK|LARGE
PRINT|MUSIC|DVD|PERIODICAL|ZINE|DATABASE|OTHER]
SUBJECT subject
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
$ webpac change_pin --help
usage: webpac change_pin [-h] BARCODE PIN NEW_PIN
positional arguments:
BARCODE patron's barcode
PIN patron's PIN
NEW_PIN new PIN
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
$ webpac modify_contact_info --help
usage: webpac modify_contact_info [-h]
BARCODE PIN ADDRESS_LINE_1 ADDRESS_LINE_2
TELEPHONE EMAIL LOCATION_CODE
positional arguments:
BARCODE patron's barcode
PIN patron's PIN
ADDRESS_LINE_1 address line one
ADDRESS_LINE_2 address line two
TELEPHONE telephone number
EMAIL email address
LOCATION_CODE default branch location code
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
usage: webpac get_contact_info [-h] BARCODE PIN
positional arguments:
BARCODE patron's barcode
PIN patron's PIN
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
usage: webpac pin_reset [-h] BARCODE
positional arguments:
BARCODE patron's barcode
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
[alivesay@simandala webpac-tools]$ ./webpac pin_reset --help
usage: webpac pin_reset [-h] BARCODE
positional arguments:
BARCODE patron's barcode
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
$ webpac register --help
usage: webpac register [-h]
FIRST_NAME MIDDLE_NAME LAST_NAME MAILING_ADDRESS_LINE_1
MAILING_ADDRESS_LINE_2 STREET_ADDRESS_LINE_1
STREET_ADDRESS_LINE_2 TELEPHONE EMAIL BIRTHDATE
positional arguments:
FIRST_NAME first name
MIDDLE_NAME middle name
LAST_NAME last name
MAILING_ADDRESS_LINE_1
mailing address line 1
MAILING_ADDRESS_LINE_2
mailing address line 2
STREET_ADDRESS_LINE_1
street address line 1
STREET_ADDRESS_LINE_2
street address line 2
TELEPHONE telephone (XXX-XXX-XXXX)
EMAIL email address
BIRTHDATE birthdate (MMDDYYYY)
optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
This bottle-based module presents a web service interface to WebPACSession.
Edit app.py and set CATALOG_URL to the URL of your WebPAC server.
- /change_pin, method: PUT, params: none, body:
'{"code":"1234567890000", "pin":"1234", "new_pin":"5678"}'
- /modify_contact_info, method: PUT, params: none, body:
'{"code":"1234567890000", "pin":"1234",
"address_line_1":"1 Main Street", "address_line_2":"Apt. A",
"email":"foo@bar.com, "location_code":"aa", "telephone":"000-867-5309" }'
- /register, method: PUT, params: none, body:
'{"first_name":"John", "middle_name":"A", "last_name":"Smith",
"mailing_address_line_1":"1 Main Street",
"mailing_address_line_2":"Washington DC 12345",
"street_address_line_1":"2 Main Street",
"street_address_line_2":"Washington DC 12345",
"telephone":"123-456-7890", "email":"foo@bar.com", "birthdate":"08141978"}
- /contact_info, method: GET, params: (code, pin), body: none
This module provides the core functionality for interfacing with WebPAC using web scraping techniques (thanks to the awesome BeautifulSoup library).
CLASSES
WebPACSession
class WebPACSession
| Provides access to WebPAC functions, maintaining web
| sessions where required.
|
| Methods defined here:
|
| __init__(self, url, debug=False)
|
| change_pin(self, pin, new_pin)
| Changes a patron's PIN.
|
| get_contact_info(self)
| Gets the patron's current contact information.
|
| login(self, code, pin)
| Logs into a WebPAC session.
|
| modify_contact_info(self, address_line_1, address_line_2,
| telephone, email, location_code)
| Sets patron's contact information.
|
| new_session(self)
| Gets a fresh WebPAC session cookie.
|
| pin_reset(self, code)
| Request a PIN reset.
|
| register(self, first_name, middle_name, last_name, mailing_address_line_1,
| mailing_address_line_2, street_address_line_1,
| street_address_line_2, telephone, email, birthdate)
| Registers a new patron.
|
| request(self, resource, params=None)
| Manages web request to WebPAC server.