Python_API_Consumer

REST API Consumer

This API consumer was originally created to easily consume a Django REST Framework API from a PyQT application on a Raspberry Pi. This, with the goal to achieve this in a similar way to Django ORM use.

With Python_API_Consumer, you can consume easily numerous API from any provider, in a easier way than a query a database. Nothing to learn, nothing to configure, you can just use it as shown below. This module do this for you:

• Build URL
• Format queries
• Send payloads
• Use appropriate REST methods
• Hydrate objects
• Handle errors
• Log errors

It will consume any REST API URL tree in a near future. And probably not only JSON format.

Dependencies

• asyncio
• requests
• functools
• inspect
• logging

Get started:

GET Retrieve

class User(Model):
  pass

user = User(url="https://example.org/api/user")

# GET https://example.org/api/user/5?format=json and hydrate instance
user.get(id=5)

# Give you the first name of this user id 5
print(user.first_name)

GET List

class Foo(Model):
  item = "bar"

foo = Foo("ttps://example.org/api/bar")
limit = 10

# GET https://example.org/api/bar?format=json&limit=10 and create 10 hydrated instances of Foo from api/bar/
many_foo = foo.from_query(
  options=[f"limit={limit}"],
  limit=limit,
  model_class=Foo
  )
# The use of limit=limit parameter is used to add instances beyond the DRF page_size configuration.
# model_class=Foo is optional because foo is an instance of Foo
# many_foo is a list of 10 instances of Foo class

PUT/PATCH update

user.fisrt_name = "Alice"
user.save()

POST Create

account = User("https://example.org/api/user")
account.fisrt_name = "Bob"
account.email = "[email protected]"
account.save()

DELETE Destroy

account.delete()

You need any development, please create an issue or submit a pull request :) Enjoy !