vipwrap 0.2

Python package that allows interacting with VIP.

Summary

At the moment, the package is mainly just a wrapper around FTP and SFTP libraries. It's used to upload and download files from VIP's GDI/GDI2 system. But could be expanded on with SQL functionality or if VIP ever added a genuine API in the future.

Installation

pip install vipwrap

Usage

Vipwrap contains two modules, gdi and models.

gdi covers the actual connection to VIP's GDI servers and the downloading/uploading of files. Largely just a wrapper around ftp libraries. Nothing that's necessarily VIP-specific happening in it. Use of the GDI2 class is recommended. VIP has largely phased out the GDI1 system. See their documentation for more details.

models contains various classes for working with order or sales history data. Has not been fully built out yet. Intention is to be able to construct order or sales history as python objects rather than as raw flat files and include methods for conversion to .DAT format that the GDI system expects.

Example usage:

from vipwrap.gdi import GDI2

gdi = GDI2(
    host=os.environ["FTP_HOST"],
    port=int(os.environ["FTP_PORT"]),
    username=os.environ["FTP_USER"],
    password=os.environ["FTP_PASS"],
)
gdi.download_file("./FILENAME.csv", "LOCAL_PATH.csv")