I want to automate a rest api get method using robotframework
In robot we have a library called requests. Using this we can get the data and all. My question is that to automate that api is it OK just validate the status code 200?
Or do we need to validate the entire json data?
If we must to validate the data then how to validate?
If we have one value we can validate that but if we have multiple how to validate??
If you are still having issues this package may help you:
https://github.com/Accruent/robotframework-zoomba
For APIs it uses the requests library but with some extended methods for making calls easier and validation very simple. You can take a look at the example robot tests for help.
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I'm building a project using python and grafana where I'd like to generate a certain number of copies of certain grafana dashboards based on certain criteria. I've downloaded the grafanalib library to help me out with that, and I've read through the Generating Dashboards From Code section of the grafanalib website, but I feel like I still need more context to understand how to use this library.
So my first question is, how do I convert a grafana dashboard JSON model into a python friendly format? What method of organization do I use? I saw the dashboard generation function written in the grafanalib documentation, but it looked quite a bit different from how my JSON data is organized. I'd just like some further description of how to do the conversion.
My second question is, once I've converted my grafana JSON into a python format, how do I then get the proper information to send that generated dashboard to my grafana server? I see in the grafanalib documentation the "upload_to_grafana" function used to send the information and it takes in the three parameters (json, server, api_key), and I understand where its getting the json parameter from, but I dont get where the server information or API key are coming from or where that information is found to be input.
This is all being developed on a raspberry pi 4 just to put that out there. I'm working on a personal smart agriculture project as a way to develop my coding abilities further, as I'm self taught. Any help that can be provided to help me in my understanding is most appreciated. Thank you.
create an API key in Grafana configuration ..The secret key that u get while creating is the API key ..Server is localhost:3000 in case of installed grafana
Looking through the API documentation it seems that there's currently no way to access a custom report via the API. If this is, in fact, the case, is there a workaround to make this possible?
The goal is to get a modified version of this report shown on the web interface:
No, you need to build the report yourself and call it with the API unfortunately.
Depending on how complex the report is, it can be done pretty quickly. You can quickly generate the GAQL needed for your APU query using this tool: https://developers.google.com/google-ads/api/fields/v7/overview_query_builder
This will save you typing out all the resources manually, and will even validate it for you.
If you're stuck, let us know what report you're trying to generate and we can help with the GAQL.
I've already built a python script that scrapes some data from a website that require a login-in. My question is: How can i transform this script into an api? For example i send to the api username, password and data required, then it returns the data needed.
A web API is nothing but an HTTP layer over your custom logic so that requests can be served the HTTP way (GET PUT POST DELETE).
Now, the question is, how?
The easiest way is to use already available packages called "web frameworks" which python has in abundance.
The easiest one to probably implement would mostly be Flask.
For a more robust application, you can use django as well.
Disclaimer: I am new to working with APIs
I am working on leveraging gimbals API and am trying to figure out what exactly end points are? I realize that they link to a server, but how exactly are they used in development?
Are the endpoints used to link to specific sources of data?
I am using python(django) and it would be great to understand exactly how access and or change information on gimbals end.
PS- When looking at the gimbal api, I noticed that they have a REST api and some other mobile stuff going on. If I am building a web platform, I would only be interested in the REST API portion correct?
An endpoint in a RESTful API is generally just a URL. The URL represents some kind of resource. If it was an order processing API, the resources would be things like customers, orders, etc.
You interact with these resources by making HTTP requests of various sorts; GET if you want to know the content of a resource, POST if you want to change something, and so on. Have a look at this for basic information on REST and web APIs.
You don't need Django to interact with a RESTful API that someone else provides. All you really need is python's urllib, and maybe the json module, if they're sending the data in JSON. The REST API they provide is probably the main thing they want developers using, but if they have multiple APIs then it's hard to say which one is right for you without understanding the application better.
I am really new to python, just played around with the scrapy framework that is used to crawl websites and extract data.
My question is, how to I pass parameters to a python script that is hosted somewhere online.
E.g. I make following request mysite.net/rest/index.py
Now I want to pass some parameters similar to php like *.php?id=...
Yes that would work. Although you would need to write handlers for extracting the url parameters in index.py. Try import cgi module for this in python.
Please note that there are several robust python based web frameworks available (aka Django, Pylons etc.) which automatically parses your url & forms a dictionary of all it's parameters, plus they do much more like session management, user authentication etc. I would highly recommend you use them for faster code turn-around and less maintenance hassles.