repi-client 0.3

RePi client, a Redis PubSub interface for PyPi.

Remote control your PyPi-packages via Redis PubSub. If you have a lot of virtual environments on different machines, install repi-client in each of them and only run one script. After that you can publish events like INSTALL to, you guessed it, install python packages on all connected systems.

Installation

repi-client requires a running Redis server. See Redis’ quickstart for installation instructions. repi-client is compatible with Redis clusters (which is an experimental feature at this point).

$ pip install repi-client

or from source:

$ python setup.py install

Getting started

After installation, you can run the ‘repi-client’ script.

$ repi-client my_client_name

That’s all!

To connect to a Redis host different from ‘localhost’, you can see a list of all the available options by running:

$ repi-client -h

Commands

The default channels are using the ‘repi’ namespace. To talk to all connected repi-clients, publish a command to ‘repi:cluster’ (you can change those names). To talk to a specific repi-client, publish to ‘repi:client-name’.

Exchange a simple PING/PONG:

{
    "command": "PING",
    "client": "master",
    "data": null
}

Get a list of all installed packages:

{
    "command": "PACKAGE_LIST",
    "client": "master",
    "data": null
}

Install a package:

{
    "command": "INSTALL",
    "client": "master",
    "data": {
        "package": "BeautifulSoup",
        "version": null
    }
}

Install a certain package version:

{
    "command": "INSTALL",
    "client": "master",
    "data": {
        "package": "BeautifulSoup",
        "version": "3.2.1"
    }
}