ecart 1.0.2

Framework agnostic, redis backed, cart system, Python library

E-Cart is a framework agnostic, redis backed, cart system, built in Python. It is not a POS, or a full fledged ecommerce system.

Installation

pip install ecart

Requirements

As E-Cart harnesses the power of Redis.You should have running Redis Server. and installed redis-py redis-py package.

Basic Usage

1. Import the Cart class from the ecart package:

   from ecart.ecart import Cart

2. Create a new shopping cart:

   cart_obj = Cart(user_id, redis_connection, ttl)

   user_id : This a required parameter which acts as a unique identifier for the cart. If you don’t want a user to have more than one cart at a time, it’s generally best to set this to the user’s id.

   redis_connection: This too is a required field and is used to communicate with the Redis database. This is basically a redis connection object obtained by calling the redis.Redis() function of the redis package. An sample function to create such object is available at redis_connection.py

   ttl: This field used to set the expiry time of the user cart in the Redis in seconds. This is an optional field with a default value of 604800.

3. To add an item to the cart:

   cart_obj.add(product_id, unit_cost, quantity)

   This function take product_id, unit_cost and quantity and other details (**kwargs) if you like. Once executed this function add the given product and its details into the user cart in redis db.

4. To Retrieve the items:

cart_obj.get()

This function returns the complete cart of the user, basically a dictionary of product_id to product_details dictionary.

Functions Exposed

Following are the complete details of the methods exposed by cart_obj object:

• add

  add(product_id, unit_cost, quantity, **extra_details)

  This function is the life blood of E-Cart. Below are the details of the arguments for the add function:

  • product_id: (required) to store the ID of the model you’re adding

  • quantity: (required) which will let you use the Cart#quantity and Cart#total methods without any extra configuration.

  • unit_cost: (required) which will help you to calculate total value of cart.

  • extra_details:(optional) if you want to store any extra information about the cart item just pass the details as **kwargs, ecart will take care of it.

• remove

  remove(product_id)

  As you would have guessed, removes an item of the input product_id

• contains

  contains(product_id)

  Returns a Boolean indicating whether an item of the given product_id is in the cart or not.

• get_product

  get_product(product_id)

  For the input product_id, this function will return the Item dictionary with unit_cost, quantity etc details.

• get

  get()

  This function returns the complete cart of the user, basically a dictionary of product_id to product_details dictionary.

• total_cost

  total_cost()

  This will return the sum all of the cost return values of all of the items in the cart. For this to work, the :unit_cost and :quantity fields need to be set for all items.

• count

  count()

  This will return the total number of items in the cart. Faster than cart.items.size because it doesn’t load all of the item data from redis.

• quantity

  quantity()

  This will return the total quantity of all the items. The quantity field is set in the config block, by default it’s :quantity

• get_ttl

  get_ttl()

  This will return the number of seconds until the cart expires.

• set_ttl

  set_ttl(ttl_value)

  This will set the ttl of the user cart in redis to ttl_value. ttl_value must be integer and is in seconds

• destroy

  destroy()

  This will delete the cart, and all the line_items out of it.

• copy

  copy(new_id)

  This method will copy the current cart to the new unique_id. Will be useful for copying guest user’s cart to logged-in user’s cart or simply creating a copy of the cart.

Example

Lets walk through an example below:

from ecart.ecart import Cart
cart = Cart(user_id, reddis_connection) # ttl is optional default is 604800
cart.add(product_id, unit_cost, quantity) # quantity defaults to 1, also you can pass optional dict(extra info)
cart.total
cart.quantity

How to Contribute

1. Fork it

2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)

3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')

4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)

5. Create new Pull Request