python-otrs 0.1.0

A programmatic interface to OTRS SOAP API.

Let you access the OTRS API a pythonic-way.

Features

• Implements fully communication with the GenericTicketConnector provided as webservice example by OTRS;

• dynamic fields and attachments are supported;

• authentication is handled programmatically, per-request or per-session;

• calls are wrapped in OTRSClient methods;

• OTRS XML objects are mapped to Python-style objects see objects.Article and objects.Ticket.

To be done

• Test for python3 compatibility and make resulting changes;

• improve and extend tests.py;

Install

pip install python-otrs

Using

First make sure you installed the GenericTicketConnector webservice, see official documentation.

from otrs.client import GenericTicketConnector
from otrs.objects import Ticket, Article, DynamicField, Attachment

server_uri = r'https://otrs.example.net'
webservice_name = 'GenericTicketConnector'
client = GenericTicketConnector(server_uri, webservice_name)

Then authenticate, you have three choices :

# user session
client.user_session_register('login', 'password')

# customer_user session
client.customer_user_session_register('login' , 'password')

# save user in memory
client.register_credentials(user='login', 'password')

Play !

Create a ticket :

import mimetypes

t = Ticket(State='new', Priority='3 normal', Queue='Support',
           Title='Problem test', CustomerUser='[e-mail]',
           Type='Divers')
a = Article(Subject='UnitTest', Body='bla', Charset='UTF8',
            MimeType='text/plain')
df1 = DynamicField(Name='TestName1', Value='TestValue1')
df2 = DynamicField(Name='TestName2', Value='TestValue2')
att_path = r'C:\Temp\image001.png'
mimetype = mimetypes.guess_type(att_path)[0]
att_file = open(att_path , 'rb')
att1 = Attachment(Content=att_file.read().encode('base64'),
                  ContentType=mimetype, Filename="image001.png")
att_file.close()

t_id, t_number = client.ticket_create(t, a, [df1, df2], [att1])

Update an article :

# changes the title of the ticket
t_upd = Ticket(Title='Updated ticket')
client.ticket_update(t_id, t_upd)

# appends a new article (attachments optional)
new_article = Article(Subject='Moar info', Body='blabla', Charset='UTF8',
                      MimeType='text/plain')
client.update_ticket(article=new_article, attachments=None)

Search for tickets :

# returns all the tickets of customer 42
tickets = client.ticket_search(CustomerID=42)

# returns all tickets in queue Support
# for which Dynamic Field 'Project' starts with 'Pizza':
df2 = DynamicField(Name='Project', Value='Pizza%', Operator="Like")
client.ticket_search(Queues='Support', dynamic_fields=[df_search])

Retrieve a ticket :

ticket = client.ticket_get(138, get_articles=True, get_dynamic_fields=True, get_attachments=True)
article = ticket.articles()[0]
article.save_attachments(r'C:\temp')

Many options are possible with requests, you can use all the options available in official documentation.