assistant-lib 0.8

The Assistant python library

Assistant library

This Python 3.x library is used to write programs that can interact with the Assistant.

Assistant : https://gitlab.com/goassistant/assistant

Pypi webpage : https://pypi.org/project/assistant-lib

Changelog

TODO

License

The license choosen for this project it the LGPLv3. It was choosen instead of the GPLv3 because :

The license allows developers and companies to use and integrate a software component released under the LGPL into their own (even proprietary) software without being required by the terms of a strong copyleft license to release the source code of their own components. However, any developer who modifies an LGPL-covered component is required to make their modified version available under the same LGPL license.

See Wikipedia for more informations.

Installation

pip3 install assistant-lib

Usage

Here is a simple test :

$ python3
Python 3.7.4 (default, Jul 11 2019, 10:43:21) 
[GCC 8.3.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from assistant_lib import assistant
>>> ac = assistant.AssistantClient("test", "1.0")
Output redirected to the file : 'assistant.log'
>>> ac.get_hostname()
'ambre'

Local tests

If you plan to make some upgrades and test them, here is how to process :

• Edit your changes in the code
• Run the clean and build command:

make

• Check the dist/ folder
• Install the builded package from the dist/ folder:

pip3 install dist/assistant_lib-<version>.tar.gz

Releasing

The version number is automatically get from git thanks to the setuptools_scm library. So you have no version to set in the code.

To create a new release, just create a tag and push it to Gitlab. The CI/CD pipeline will build a release and publish it to Pypi. This is just magic ;). You can check the .gitlab-ci.yml file to understand how it works.