G API Python Client

A client for the G Adventures REST API (https://developers.gadventures.com)

• GitHub Repository: https://github.com/gadventures/gapipy/
• Documentation: http://gapipy.readthedocs.org.
• Free software: MIT license

Quick Start

>>> from gapipy import Client
>>> api = Client(application_key='MY_SECRET_KEY')

>>> # Get a resource by id
>>> tour_dossier = api.tour_dossiers.get(24309)
>>> tour_dossier.product_line
u'AHEH'
>>> tour_dossier.departures.count()
134
>>> tour_dossier.name
u'Essential India'
>>> itinerary = tour_dossier.structured_itineraries[0]
>>> {day.day: day.summary for day in itinerary.days[:3]}
{1: u'Arrive at any time. Arrival transfer included through the G Adventures-supported Women on Wheels project.',
2: u'Take a morning walk through the city with a young adult from the G Adventures-supported New Delhi Streetkids Project. Later, visit Old Delhi, explore the spice markets, and visit Jama Masjid and Connaught Place.',
3: u"Arrive in Jaipur and explore this gorgeous 'pink city'."}

>>> # Create a new resource
>>> booking = api.bookings.create({'currency': 'CAD', 'external_id': 'abc'})

>>> # Modify an existing resource
>>> booking.external_id = 'def'
>>> booking.save()

Since `2.25.0 (2020-01-02)`_

>>> # since 2.25.0 reference stubs that fail to fetch will return a

>>> # subclass of requests.HTTPError (See: https://github.com/gadventures/gapipy/pull/119)
>>> # This can also be done on Query.get by passing a Falsy value for the
>>> # httperrors_mapped_to_none kwarg.
>>>
>>> dep = api.departures.get('404_404', httperrors_mapped_to_none=None)
... # omitted stacktrace
HTTPError: 404 Client Error: {"http_status_code":404,"message":"Not found.","errors":[],"time":"2020-01-02T19:46:07Z","error_id":"gapi_asdf1234"} for url: https://rest.gadventures.com/departures/404_404

>>> dep = api.departures.get('404404')
>>> dep.start_address.country
<Country: BR (stub)>

>>> # lets have GAPI return a _404_ error here for the country stub `fetch`
>>> # when we attempt to retrieve the continent attribute

>>> dep.start_address.country.continent  # reference/stub forces a fetch

>>> # pre 2.25.0 behaviour
... # omitted stacktrace
AttributeError: 'Country' has no field 'continent' available

>>> # post 2.25.0 behaviour
... # omitted stacktrace
HTTPError: 404 Client Error: {"http_status_code":404,"message":"Not found.","errors":[],"time":"2020-01-02T19:46:07Z","error_id":"gapi_qwer5678"} for url: https://rest.gadventures.com/countries/BR

Resources

Resource objects are instantiated from python dictionaries created from JSON data. The fields are parsed and converted to python objects as specified in the resource class.

A nested resource will only be instantiated when its corresponding attribute is accessed in the parent resource. These resources may be returned as a stub, and upon access of an attribute not present, will internally call .fetch() on the resource to populate it.

A field pointing to the URL for a collection of a child resources will hold a Query object for that resource. As for nested resources, it will only be instantiated when it is first accessed.

Queries

A Query for a resource can be used to fetch resources of that type (either a single instance or an iterator over them, possibly filtered according to some conditions). Queries are roughly analogous to Django’s QuerySets.

An API client instance has a query object for each available resource (accessible by an attribute named after the resource name)

Methods on Query objects

All queries support the get, create and options methods. The other methods are only supported for queries whose resources are listable.

options()

Get the options for a single resource

get(resource_id, [headers={}])

Get a single resource; optionally passing in a dictionary of header values.

create(data)

Create an instance of the query resource using the given data.

all([limit=n])

Generator over all resources in the current query. If limit is a positive integer n, then only the first n results will be returned.

• A TypeError will be raised if limit is not None or int type
• A ValueError will be raised if limit <= 0>

filter(field1=value1, [field2=value2, ...])

filter(**{"nested.field": "value"})

Filter resources on the provided fields and values. Calls to filter can be chained. The method will return a clone of the Query object and must be stored in a separate variable in order to have access to stacked filters.

count()

Return the number of resources in the current query (by reading the count field on the response returned by requesting the list of resources in the current query).

Caching

gapipy can be configured to use a cache to avoid having to send HTTP requests for resources it has already seen. Cache invalidation is not automatically handled: it is recommended to listen to G API webhooks to purge resources that are outdated.

By default, gapipy will use the cached data to instantiate a resource, but a fresh copy can be fetched from the API by passing cached=False to Query.get. This has the side-effect of recaching the resource with the latest data, which makes this a convenient way to refresh cached data.

Caching can be configured through the cache_backend and cache_options settings. cached_backend should be a string of the fully qualified path to a cache backend, i.e. a subclass of gapipy.cache.BaseCache. A handful of cache backends are available out of the box:

• gapipy.cache.SimpleCache

  A simple in-memory cache for single process environments and is not thread safe.

• gapipy.cache.RedisCache

  A key-value cache store using Redis as a backend.

• gapipy.cache.NullCache (Default)

  A cache that doesn’t cache.

Since the cache backend is defined by a python module path, you are free to use a cache backend that is defined outside of this project.

Connection Pooling

We use the requests library, and you can take advantage of the provided connection pooling options by passing in a 'connection_pool_options' dict to your client.

Values inside the 'connection_pool_options' dict of interest are as follows:

• Set enable to True to enable pooling. Defaults to False.
• Use number to set the number of connection pools to cache. Defaults to 10.
• Use maxsize to set the max number of connections in each pool. Defaults to 10.
• Set block to True if the connection pool should block and wait for a connection to be released when it has reached maxsize. If False and the pool is already at maxsize a new connection will be created without blocking, but it will not be saved once it is used. Defaults to False.

See also:

• http://www.python-requests.org/en/latest/api/#requests.adapters.HTTPAdapter
• http://urllib3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/index.html#module-urllib3.connectionpool

Dependencies

The only dependency needed to use the client is requests.

Testing

Running tests is pretty simple. We use nose as the test runner. You can install all requirements for testing with the following:

$ pip install -r requirements-testing.txt

Once installed, run unit tests with:

$ nosetests -A integration!=1

Otherwise, you’ll want to include a GAPI Application Key so the integration tests can successfully hit the API:

$ export GAPI_APPLICATION_KEY=MY_SECRET_KEY; nosetests

In addition to running the test suite against your local Python interpreter, you can run tests using Tox. Tox allows the test suite to be run against multiple environments, or in this case, multiple versions of Python. Install and run the tox command from any place in the gapipy source tree. You’ll want to export your G API application key as well:

$ export GAPI_APPLICATION_KEY=MY_SECRET_KEY
$ pip install tox
$ tox

Tox will attempt to run against all environments defined in the tox.ini. It is recommended to use a tool like pyenv to ensure you have multiple versions of Python available on your machine for Tox to use.

Fields

• _model_fields represent dictionary fields like so:

Note: _model_fields = [('address', Address)] and Address subclasses BaseModel

"address": {
  "street": "19 Charlotte St",
  "city": "Toronto",
  "state": {
    "id": "CA-ON",
    "href": "https://rest.gadventures.com/states/CA-ON",
    "name": "Ontario"
  },
  "country": {
    "id": "CA",
    "href": "https://rest.gadventures.com/countries/CA",
    "name": "Canada"
  },
  "postal_zip": "M5V 2H5"
}

• _model_collection_fields represent a list of dictionary fields like so:

Note: _model_collection_fields = [('emails', AgencyEmail),] and AgencyEmail subclasses BaseModel

"emails": [
  {
    "type": "ALLOCATIONS_RELEASE",
    "address": "g@gadventures.com"
  },
  {
    "type": "ALLOCATIONS_RELEASE",
    "address": "g2@gadventures.com"
  }
]

• _resource_fields refer to another Resource