Python Usage
Quickstart
Get Ticket with TicketID 1 from OTRS over the REST API:
from pyotrs import Client
client = Client("https://otrs.example.com", "root@localhost", "password")
client.session_create()
client.ticket_get_by_id(1)
The usage of Client.session_restore_or_create is recommended. It uses a temporary file
on the hard drive to store the Session ID (just like cookies in a browser) and avoids sending
the username+password (and therefore creating a new session) on every API call:
from pyotrs import Client
client = Client("https://otrs.example.com", "root@localhost", "password")
client.session_restore_or_create()
client.ticket_get_by_id(1)
Method Client.session_restore_or_set_up_new is deprecated as of v0.10.
More Examples
>>> from pyotrs import Article, Client, DynamicField, Ticket
>>> client = Client("http://otrs.example.com", "root@localhost", "password")
>>> client.session_create()
True
>>> my_ticket = client.ticket_get_by_id(1)
>>> my_ticket
<Ticket: 1>
>>> my_ticket.field_get("TicketNumber")
u'2010080210123456'
>>> my_ticket.field_get("Title")
u'Welcome to OTRS!'
>>> my_ticket.to_dct() # Show complete ticket
>>> from pyotrs import Client
>>> client = Client("http://otrs.example.com", "user@customer.example.com", "password", customer_user=True)
>>> client.session_create()
True
>>> my_article = Article({"Subject": "Subj", "Body": "New Body"})
>>> client.ticket_update(1, article=my_article)
{u'ArticleID': u'3',
u'TicketID': u'1',
u'TicketNumber': u'2010080210123456'}
>>> client.ticket_get_by_id(1, articles=1, attachments=1)
>>> my_ticket = client.result[0]
>>> my_ticket.articles
[<ArticleID: 3>, <ArticleID: 4>
>>> my_ticket.dynamic_fields
[<DynamicField: ProcessManagementActivityID: None>, <DynamicField: ProcessManagementProcessID: None>]
Get Tickets
>>> client.ticket_get_by_id(1, articles=True, attachments=True, dynamic_fields=True)
<Ticket: 1>
>>> client.ticket_get_by_list([1, 3, 4], dynamic_fields=False)
[<Ticket: 1>, <Ticket: 3>, <Ticket: 4>]
Update Tickets
>>> client.ticket_update(1, Title="New Title")
{u'TicketID': u'1', u'TicketNumber': u'2010080210123456'}
>>> client.ticket_update(1, Queue="New Queue")
{u'TicketID': u'1', u'TicketNumber': u'2010080210123456'}
>>> client.ticket_update(1, Queue="New Queue", State="closed")
{u'TicketID': u'1', u'TicketNumber': u'2010080210123456'}
>>> my_article = Article({"Subject": "Subj", "Body": "New Body"})
>>> client.ticket_update(1, article=my_article)
{u'ArticleID': u'3',
u'TicketID': u'1',
u'TicketNumber': u'2010080210123456'}
>>> att = Attachment.create_from_file("./test_data/asd.txt")
>>> client.ticket_update(ticket_id=1, article=my_article, attachments=[att])
{'ArticleID': '7927', 'TicketID': '1', 'TicketNumber': '2010080210123456'}
>>> df = DynamicField("ExternalTicket", "1234")
>>> client.ticket_update(1, dynamic_fields=[df])
{u'TicketID': u'1', u'TicketNumber': u'2010080210123456'}
Create Tickets
OTRS requires that new Tickets have several fields filled with valid values and that an
Article is present for the new Ticket.
>>> new_ticket = Ticket.create_basic(Title="This is the Title",
Queue="Raw",
State=u"new",
Priority=u"3 normal",
CustomerUser="root@localhost")
>>> first_article = Article({"Subject": "Subj", "Body": "New Body"})
>>> client.ticket_create(new_ticket, first_article)
{u'ArticleID': u'9', u'TicketID': u'7', u'TicketNumber': u'2016110528000013'}
Article body with HTML
PyOTRS defaults to using the MIME type “text/plain”. By specifying a different type it is possible to e.g. add a HTML body.
>>> first_article = Article({"Subject": "Subj",
"Body": "<html><body><h1>This is a header</h1>" \
"<a href='https://pyotrs.readthedocs.io/'>Link to PyOTRS Docs</a></body></html>",
"MimeType": "text/html"})
>>> client.ticket_update(10, first_article)
{u'ArticleID': u'29', u'TicketID': u'10', u'TicketNumber': u'2017052328000034'}
Search for Tickets
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> client.ticket_search(TicketCreateTimeOlderDate=datetime(2011, 1, 1))
[u'1']
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> from datetime import timedelta
>>> client.ticket_search(TicketCreateTimeNewerDate=datetime.utcnow() - timedelta(days=7))
[u'66', u'65', u'64', u'63']
>>> from datetime import datetime
>>> from datetime import timedelta
>>> week = datetime.utcnow() - timedelta(days=7)
>>> client.ticket_search(TicketCreateTimeOlderDate=week, States=['open', 'new'], QueueIDs=[12])
>>> client.ticket_search(Title="no such ticket")
[]
>>> df = DynamicField("ExternalTicket", search_patterns=["1234"])
>>> client.ticket_search(dynamic_fields=[df])
[u'2']
>>> df = DynamicField("ExternalTicket", search_patterns=["123*"], search_operator="Like")
>>> client.ticket_search([df])
[u'2']
Tips
When using ipython you could run into UTF8 encoding issues on Python2. This is a workaround
that can help:
import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')
If needed the insecure plattform warnings can be disabled:
# turn off platform insecurity warnings from urllib3
from requests.packages.urllib3 import disable_warnings
disable_warnings() # TODO 2016-04-23 (RH) verify this
PyOTRS Shell CLI
The PyOTRS Shell CLI is a kind of “proof-of-concept” for the PyOTRS wrapper library.
Attention: PyOTRS can only retrieve Ticket data at the moment!
Usage
Get a Ticket:
pyotrs get -b https://otrs.example.com/ -u root@localhost -p password -t 1
Starting PyOTRS CLI
No config file found at: /home/user/.pyotrs
Connecting to https://otrs.example.com/ as user..
Ticket: Welcome to OTRS!
Queue: Raw
State: closed successful
Priority: 3 normal
Get usage information:
$: pyotrs -h
Usage: PyOTRS [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Options:
--version Show the version and exit.
--config PATH Config File
-h, --help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
get PyOTRS get command
$:pyotrs get -h
Starting PyOTRS CLI
No config file found at: /home/user/.pyotrs
Usage: PyOTRS get [OPTIONS]
PyOTRS get command
Options:
-b, --baseurl TEXT Base URL
-u, --username TEXT Username
-p, --password TEXT Password
-t, --ticket-id INTEGER Ticket ID
--store-path TEXT where to store Attachments (default:
/tmp/pyotrs_<random_str>
--store-attachments store Article Attachments to
/tmp/<ticket_id>
--attachments include Article Attachments
--articles include Articles
--https-verify / --no-https-verify
HTTPS(SSL/TLS) Certificate validation
(default: enabled)
--ca-cert-bundle TEXT CA CERT Bundle (Path)
-h, --help Show this message and exit.
Get a Ticket “interactively":
$: pyotrs get
Starting PyOTRS CLI
No config file found at: /home/user/.pyotrs
Baseurl: http://otrs.example.com
Username: user
Password:
Ticket id: 1
Connecting to https://otrs.example.com as user..
Ticket: Welcome to OTRS!
Queue: Raw
State: closed successful
Priority: 3 normal
Full Ticket:
{u'Ticket': {u'TypeID': 1 [...]
Provide Config
There are four ways to provide config values:
1. interactively when prompted
2. as commandline arguments when calling (checkout -h/--help)
3. as settings in the environment
4. in a config file (default location: ~/.pyotrs)
Both the config file and the environment use the same variable names:
PYOTRS_BASEURL=http://otrs.example.com
PYOTRS_USERNAME=root@localhost
PYOTRS_PASSWORD=otrs_password
PYOTRS_HTTPS_VERIFY=True
PYOTRS_CA_CERT_BUNDLE=
