Simiotics Python client library

This package contains the Simiotics Python client library. It allows you to interact with Simiotics APIs directly from your Python programs.

Registries

This library currently supports interaction with the following types of Simiotics registries:

1. Data registries
2. Function registries

The Simiotics client reads registry-related configuration from environment variables:

1. To connect to a data registry, set the SIMIOTICS_DATA_REGISTRY environment variable to point at a data registry instance (e.g. export SIMIOTICS_DATA_REGISTRY=registry-alpha.simiotics.com:7010)
2. To connect to a function registry, set the SIMIOTICS_FUNCTION_REGISTRY environment variable to point at a function registry instance (e.g. export SIMIOTICS_FUNCTION_REGISTRY=registry-alpha.simiotics.com:7011)

To communicate with a registry, you must first instantiate a registry client:

import simiotics.client

simiotics = simiotics.client.client_from_env()

If you specified SIMIOTICS_DATA_REGISTRY in your environment, you can access that registry using simiotics.data_registry.

If you specified SIMIOTICS_FUNCTION_REGISTRY in your environment, you can access that registry using simiotics.function_registry.

The simiotics_s3 tool provides a good example of how to use these registries. For example, the `list_data_sources function shows how to list all the sources registered against a data registry.

simiotics_s3 is a very convenient wrapper around the simiotics client library and we will likely merge it into the client library proper in an upcoming version.