Delta Chat RPC python client

RPC client connects to standalone Delta Chat RPC server deltachat-rpc-server and provides asynchronous interface to it. rpc.start() performs a health-check RPC call to verify the server started successfully and will raise an error if startup fails (e.g. if the accounts directory could not be used).

Getting started

To use Delta Chat RPC client, first build a deltachat-rpc-server with cargo build -p deltachat-rpc-server or download a prebuilt release. Install it anywhere in your PATH.

Create a virtual environment if you don't have one already and activate it.

$ python -m venv env
$ . env/bin/activate

Install deltachat-rpc-client from source:

$ cd deltachat-rpc-client
$ pip install .

Testing

Build deltachat-rpc-server with cargo build -p deltachat-rpc-server.
Install tox pip install -U tox
Run CHATMAIL_DOMAIN=ci-chatmail.testrun.org PATH="../target/debug:$PATH" tox.

Additional arguments to tox are passed to pytest, e.g. tox -- -s does not capture test output.

Activating current checkout of deltachat-rpc-client and -server for development

Go to root repository directory and run:

$ scripts/make-rpc-testenv.sh 
$ source venv/bin/activate

Using in REPL

Setup a development environment:

$ tox --devenv env
$ . env/bin/activate

$ python
>>> from deltachat_rpc_client import *
>>> rpc = Rpc()
>>> rpc.start()
>>> dc = DeltaChat(rpc)
>>> system_info = dc.get_system_info()
>>> system_info["level"]
'awesome'
>>> rpc.close()

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