ServiceAPI, a base class for APIs which talk to a service, typically a web service via HTTP.

Latest release 20240723: ServiceAPI: acquire the fstags automatically at init.

An instance of a ServiceAPI embodies some basic features that feel common to web based services:

• a notion of a login
• local state, an SQLTags for data about entities of the service
• downloads, if that is a thing, with FSTags for file annotations

Class HTTPServiceAPI(ServiceAPI)

HTTPServiceAPI base class for other APIs talking to HTTP services.

Subclasses must define:

• API_BASE: the base URL of API calls. For example, the PlayOnAPI defines this as f'https://{API_HOSTNAME}/v3/'.

HTTPServiceAPI.json(self, suburl, _response_encoding=None, **kw): Request suburl from the service, by default using a GET. Return the result decoded as JSON.

Parameters are as for HTTPServiceAPI.suburl.

HTTPServiceAPI.suburl(*a, upd: Optional[cs.upd.Upd] = <function uses_upd.<locals>.<lambda> at 0x102fe7060>, **kw): Request suburl from the service, by default using a GET. The suburl must be a URL subpath not commencing with '/'.

Keyword parameters:

• _base_url: the base request domain, default from self.API_BASE
• _method: the request method, default 'GET'
• _no_raise_for_status: do not raise an HTTP error if the response status is not 200, default False (raise if not 200)
• cookies: optional cookie jar, default from self.cookies Other keyword parameters are passed to the requests method.

Class RequestsNoAuth(requests.auth.AuthBase)

This is a special purpose subclass of requests.auth.AuthBase to apply no authorisation at all. This is for services with their own special purpose authorisation and avoids things like automatic netrc based auth.

Class ServiceAPI(cs.resources.MultiOpenMixin)

SewrviceAPI base class for other APIs talking to services.

ServiceAPI.available(self) -> Set[cs.sqltags.SQLTagSet]: Return a set of the SQLTagSet instances representing available items at the service, for example purchased books available to your login.

ServiceAPI.get_login_state(self, do_refresh=False) -> cs.sqltags.SQLTagSet: The login state, a mapping. Performs a login if necessary or if do_refresh is true (default False).

ServiceAPI.login(self) -> Mapping: Do a login: authenticate to the service, return a mapping of related information.

Not all services require this and we expect such subclasses to avoid use of login-based methods.

ServiceAPI.login_expiry: Expiry UNIX time for the login state. This implementation returns None.

ServiceAPI.login_state: The login state, a mapping. Performs a login if necessary.

ServiceAPI.startup_shutdown(self): Open/close the FSTags and SQLTags.

Release Log

Release 20240723: ServiceAPI: acquire the fstags automatically at init.

Release 20230703: Retry logic for requests.

Release 20230217: Initial release.