Representor - Python

This library provides a generic interface for hypermedia messages. It is currently in active development and is not recommended for production use.

Installing

python setup.py install

Usage

Representor

from representor import Representor

representor = Representor()

# Adding representor attributes
representor.attributes.add("name", "John Doe")
representor.attributes.add("email", "john@example.com")

# Retreiving attributes
name_attr = representor.attributes.get("name")
name_attr.value

# Adding links
representor.links.add("self", "/customers/1")
representor.links.add("orders", "/customers/1/orders")

# Adding meta data
representor.meta.attributes.add("title", "Customer Details")
representor.meta.links.add("profile", "http://example.com/customer_profile")

# Finding links and transitions
has_self = representor.transitions.has_rel("self") # True
self_link = representor.transitions.get("self")
profile_link = representor.meta.links.get("profile")

# Translate to media types
hal = representor.translate_to("application/hal+json")

# Translate from media types
hal_json = '{ "_links": { "self": { "href": "/example" }}}'
new_representor = Representor.translate_from("application/hal+json", hal_json)

Supported Media Types

• HAL+JSON
• Maze+XML

Adding Adapters

from representor import Representor
from representor.contrib.browser import BrowserAdapter

# Add the adapter
Representor.adapters.add(BrowserAdapter)

Contrib Adapters

These are adapters that are not considered to be part of the defaults, but are added in the library for easy access.

Browser

This is an adapter that can be used to build HTML representations of a resource. This is only used for building and will not be made to parse HTML.

To use:

from representor.contrib.browser import BrowserAdapter
Representor.adapters.add(BrowserAdapter)

HypermediaResponse

A Hypermedia Response can be used to automatically generate a representation based on what the client accepts. It uses content negotiation to decide the type based on what adapters have been added to the Representor adapters, either by default or manually.

from representor import Representor
from representor.wrappers import HypermediaResponse, ResponseBuilder

# The resource
representor = Representor()
representor.links.add("self", "/example")

# What the client accepts, which is used for content negotiation
accepts = "application/hal+json"

# New builder with default type
response_builder = ResponseBuilder("application/hal+json")
response = response_builder.build(representor, accepts)

# Fields for response
response.media_type # The media type of the response
response.body # The body of the response

More detailed docs to come as this API is developed.

Running Tests

python setup.py test