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Name: decorest
Version: 0.0.2
Summary: `decorest` library provides an easy to use declarative REST API client interface, where definition of the API methods using decorators automatically gives a working REST client with no additional code.
Home-page: https://github.com/bkryza/decorest
Author: Bartek Kryza
Author-email: bkryza@gmail.com
License: Apache 2.0
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        decorest - decorator heavy REST client for Python
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        Declarative, decorator-based REST client for Python.
        
        .. contents::
        
        Overview
        ========
        
        decorest_ library provides an easy to use declarative REST API client interface,
        where definition of the API methods using decorators automatically gives
        a working REST client with no additional code. In practice the library provides
        only an interface to describe and interact with REST services - the actual work
        is done underneath by the requests_ library.
        
        For example:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            from decorest import RestClient, GET
        
            class DogClient(RestClient):
                def __init__(self, endpoint):
                    super(DogClient, self).__init__(endpoint)
        
                @GET('breed/{breed_name}/list')
                def list_subbreeds(self, breed_name):
                    """List all sub-breeds"""
        
            client = DogClient('https://dog.ceo/api')
        
            print(client.list_subbreeds('hound'))
        
        
        Installation
        ============
        
        Using pip:
        
        .. code-block:: bash
        
            pip install decorest
        
        Usage
        =====
        
        Basics
        ------
        
        For most typical cases the usage should be farily straightforward. Simply create a
        sublcass of :py:`decorest.RestClient` and define methods, which will perform calls
        to the actual REST service. You can declare how each function should actually
        make the request to the service solely using decorators attached to the
        method definition. The method itself is not expected to have any implementation
        except maybe for a docstring.
        
        After your API client class definition is complete, simply create an instance
        of it and it's ready to go. This library relies on the functionality provided
        by the requests_ library, which means that any valid named argument which
        could be passed to a requests_ HTTP call can be also passed to the calls
        of the client methods and will be forwarded as is.
        
        For more information checkout the examples in tests.
        
        Decorators
        ----------
        
        Below is a list of all supported decorators along with short explanation and
        examples. Some decorators can be attached to both client class as well as
        methods, in which case the class-level decorator is applied to all HTTP methods
        in that class. Furthermore, each decorator can be overriden directly during
        the method call by providing a named argument with name equal to the decorator
        name.
        
        
        @GET, @PUT, @POST, @PATCH, @UPDATE, @DELETE, @HEAD, @OPTIONS
        ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
        
        Marks the request with a specific HTTP method and the path relative to
        endpoint provided as argument. The path can contain variables enclosed
        in curly brackets, e.g.:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
                @GET('breed/{breed_name}/list')
                def list_subbreeds(self, breed_name):
                    """List all sub-breeds"""
        
        which will be replaced by the arguments from the method definition.
        These decorators apply only to methods.
        
        @query
        ~~~~~~
        
        Adds a query key-value pair to the request. URL encoding will be applied to
        the value using :py:`urlencode`, e.g.:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
                @GET('breed/{breed_name}/list')
                @query('long_names', 'longNames')
                @query('limit')
                def list_subbreeds(self, breed_name, long_names, limit=100):
                    """List all sub-breeds"""
        
        This decorator can take a single string parameter, which determines the name
        of the method argument whose value will be added as the query argument value
        of the same name.
        
        In case 2 arguments are provided, the second argument determines the actual
        query key name, which will be used in the request query (if for some reason
        it cannot be the same as the method argument name).
        
        Furthermore, if a default value is provided in a method declaration, it
        will be used whenever a value for this argument is not provided during
        invocation.
        
        For example, the following invocation of the above method:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            client.list_subbreeds('hound', 1)
        
        will result in the following query:
        
        .. code-block::
        
            https://dog.ceo/api/breed/hound?longNames=1&limit=100
        
        This decorator can be added to methods as well as the client class, however
        in the latter case it will be added to every method request in that class.
        
        @header
        ~~~~~~~
        
        Adds a header key-value pair to the request, e.g.:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
                @GET('breed/{breed_name}/list')
                @header('accept', 'application/json')
                def list_subbreeds(self, breed_name):
                    """List all sub-breeds"""
        
        This decorator can be added to both methods and client class. The class level
        decorators will be added to every method and can be overriden using method
        level decorators.
        
        @body
        ~~~~~
        
        Body decorator enables to specify which of the method params should provide
        the body content to the request, e.g.:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            @POST('pet')
            @header('content-type', 'application/json')
            @header('accept', 'application/json')
            @body('pet')
            def add_pet(self, pet):
                """Add a new pet to the store"""
        
        :py:`@body` decorator can take an optional argument which provides a serialization
        handler, which will be invoked automatically before passing the argument as
        body content, which can be a simple lambda or a more complex function with some
        logic. For example:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            @POST('pet')
            @header('content-type', 'application/json')
            @header('accept', 'application/json')
            @body('pet', lambda p: json.dumps(p))
            def add_pet(self, pet):
                """Add a new pet to the store"""
        
        The above code will automatically stringify the dictionary provided as
        value of 'pet' argument using :py:`json.dumps()` function.
        
        @auth
        ~~~~~
        
        Allows to specify the authentication method to be used for the requests.
        It accepts any valid subclass of :py:`requests.auth.AuthBase`.
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
                @GET('breed/{breed_name}/list')
                @header('accept', 'application/json')
                @auth(HTTPBasicAuth('user', 'password'))
                def list_subbreeds(self, breed_name):
                    """List all sub-breeds"""
        
        When added to the client class it will be used for every method call,
        unless specific auth decorator is specified for that method.
        
        @on
        ~~~
        
        By default the request method will not return requests_ response object
        but the response will depend on the content type of the reponse.
        
        In case the HTTP request succeeds the following results are expected:
        
        - :py:`response.json()` if the content type of response is JSON
        - :py:`response.content` if the content type is binary
        - :py:`response.text` otherwise
        
        In case the request fails, :py:`response.raise_for_status()` is called and
        should be handled in the code.
        
        In case another behavior is required, custom handlers can be provided
        for each method using lambdas or functions. The provided handler is
        expected to take only a single argument, which is the requests_ response
        object, e.g.:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
                @GET('breed/{breed_name}/list')
                @header('accept', 'application/json')
                @auth(HTTPBasicAuth('user', 'password'))
                @on(200, lambda r: r.json())
                def list_subbreeds(self, breed_name):
                    """List all sub-breeds"""
        
        This decorator can be applied to both methods and classes, however when
        applied to a class the handler will be called for method which receives
        the provided status code.
        
        @content
        ~~~~~~~~
        This decorator is a shortcut for :py:`@header('content-type', ...)`, e.g:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
            @POST('pet')
            @content('application/json')
            @header('accept', 'application/json')
            @body('pet', lambda p: json.dumps(p))
            def add_pet(self, pet):
                """Add a new pet to the store"""
        
        @accept
        ~~~~~~~~
        This decorator is a shortcut for :py:`@header('accept', ...)`, e.g:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
                @GET('breed/{breed_name}/list')
                @content('application/json')
                @accept('application/xml')
                def list_subbreeds(self, breed_name):
                    """List all sub-breeds"""
        
        @endpoint
        ~~~~~~~~
        This decorator enables to define a default endpoint for the service,
        which then doesn't have to be provided in the client constructor:
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
                @endpoint('https://dog.ceo/api')
                class DogClient(RestClient):
                    """List all sub-breeds"""
                    def __init__(self, endpoint=None):
                        super(DogClient, self).__init__(endpoint)
        
        The endpoint provided in the client constructor will take precedence
        however.
        
        
        @timeout
        ~~~~~~~~
        Specifies a default timeout value (in seconds) for method or entire API.
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
                @endpoint('https://dog.ceo/api')
                @timeout(5)
                class DogClient(RestClient):
                    """List all sub-breeds"""
                    def __init__(self, endpoint=None):
                        super(DogClient, self).__init__(endpoint)
        
        Sessions [TODO]
        ---------------
        
        Based on the functionality provided by requests_ library in the form of
        session objects, sessions can be used instead of making a separate request
        on each method call thus significantly improving the performance of the
        client in case multiple reponses are peformed.
        
        To start and stop the session, simply call :py:`client.start_session()`
        on the client instance. Only the first method after this call will create
        the session, consecutive calls will reuse it until :py:`client.stop_session()`
        method is called on the client instance.
        
        .. code-block:: python
        
                client.start_session()
                client.list_subbreeds('hound')
                client.list_subbreeds('husky')
                client.stop_session()
        
        Grouping API methods [TODO]
        ---------------------------
        
        For larger API's it can be useful to be able to split the API definition
        into multiple files but still use it from a single instance in the code.
        This can be achieved by creating separate client
        classes for each group of operations and then create a common class which
        inherits from all the group clients and provides entire API from one instance.
        
        License
        =======
        
        Copyright 2018 Bartosz Kryza <bkryza@gmail.com>
        
        Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
        you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
        You may obtain a copy of the License at
        
            http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
        
        Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
        distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
        WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
        See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
        limitations under the License.
        
        
        .. _tests: https://github.com/bkryza/decorest/tests
        .. _requests: https://github.com/requests/requests
        .. _decorest: https://github.com/bkryza/decorest
        
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