I have a server application written with Django which has a contacts database.
I wish to add a cardav webservice in order to share my contacts on my phone. I have made many search but I am completely lost.
I found some server as Radical, some API which uses files ... but nothing help me.
I need to implement in my server an API which will return to my Android the list of contact from my databases. What output format should I use ?
Thank you.
Your question seems a bit generic nor do you list what resources you looked at and why you are lost.
This presentation is a little old, but shows the fundamentals on how the *DAV protocols work. Building a CardDAV Client is another great starting point.
CardDAV itself is specified in
RFC 6352, and the related RFCs:
WebDAV,
WebDAV ACL,
etc.
What output format should I use ?
CardDAV requests and responses use
WebDAV,
hence XML.
The actual payload is a
vCard v3.
If you are looking for sample code:
The Apple CalendarServer
is a full-fledged CalDAV/CardDAV server written in Python.
Radicale is another one, but you already found that (be more specific why this isn't helping you, Radicale looks like a great starting point to me).
Finally: I don't think Android has CardDAV support builtin. Presumably you are using a sync plugin?
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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
I am trying to convert my BASH script to Python and am having difficulties in finding the equivalent code for openstack server show or openstack server list --long. I would like to know what host is my server currently located and use this information for a check before migrating it to another host.
Looking through the latest novaclient documentation and its servers module, I have found two potential commands that I was hoping would accomplish the task, but does not do so:
list(detailed=True)
Gets a list servers
detailed=True should return detailed server info (optional).
This returns a regular list of servers with their names.
get(server)
Get a server
This returns only the name of the server.
I have been researching for the past two days, and I could not find the same / similar problem here in stack overflow so I have decided to ask and I am hoping that someone can help me with this.
Either list or get should be fine here.
As an example get would be used like this.
instance = nova_client.servers.get('my-server')
print(instance.name)
print(instance.addresses)
print(instance.status)
Or using list.
for instance in nova_client.servers.list():
print(instance.name)
print(instance.addresses)
print(instance.status)
If you want an easy way of understanding the type of data you can get, you can simply use the Python inbuilt dir.
instance = nova_client.servers.get('my-server')
print(dir(instance))
'my-server' needs to be the id as in instance.id, the name of the server is not valid.
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I am in the middle of my personal website development and I am using python to create a "Comment section" which my visitors could leave comments at there in public (which means, everybody can see it, so don't worry about the user name registration things). I already set up the sql database to store those data but only thing I haven't figured out yet was how to get the user input (their comments) from the browser. So, is there any modules in python could do that? (Like, the "Charfield" things in django, but unfortunately I don't use django)
For that you would need a web framework like Bottle or Flask. Bottle is a simple WSGI based web framework for Python.
Using either of these you may write simple REST based APIs, one for set and other for get. The "set" one could accept data from your client side and store it on your database where as your "get" api should return the data by reading it from your DB.
Hope it helps.
I've searched on google and have taken a look at the facebook site for the apis, but facebook does not have an official SDK for python. I looked at the third party api for python listed on their site that could be used to communicate with facebook. After having visited their official site and github repository there is a small readme file that shows basic usage, it seems to assume that you are already connected to facebook, and the example at the end of that page shows a cookie example.
The short examples seem easy enough but there is no explaination of anything and i dont find any more documentation about anything else.. there does not seem to be any information about all available methods you can use with the api..where do the people who are using this api get the documentation to find the methods available so they are able to do work with this ?
Since i guess people are pretty tired of signing up for yet another service i would like to offer to sign in with their facebook and twitter accounts (although thats a no no for the ad people who would like to have access to the user profile in order to have targeted words/links that generate revenue). Im using django and have taken a look at the django-facebook api as well but the documentation seems to just point to the github repository which doesnt have any documenation, almost just like the other api pointed out above. Basically i dont find any documenation about how to use the apis except from the small examples.
And like always, i appericiate your time answering this, always nice to add an explaination to any code so the answer is a little more usefull, thanks.
My info might be a little bit out of date as I was working at a startup implementing a Python backend on Google AppEngine that interfaced with Facebook, used FQL, AppEngine datastore etc, about a year and half ago.
There are several third party APIs you can use, for instance, https://github.com/jgorset/facepy or https://github.com/pythonforfacebook/facebook-sdk. The reason there is no 'documentation' on the github site is because it implements access to the API that IS documented on Facebook's developer pages https://developers.facebook.com/docs/graph-api/.
But that is in a perfect world. My experience with the Facebook APIs is that they don't always do what is said on the dev pages. You don't get consistent return data, FB Realtime API not/inconsistently notifying for certain connections (music, movies, books, tv). Unfortunately, I think they have many non-documented APIs that are only available to the big app players.
Where I got my real world working info and learned how to access Facebook using Python was right here on stack overflow.
I'm sorry but I'm having some trouble implementing Oauth within my app engine python project.
I've been working from http://github.com/tav/tweetapp, but I don't think I have a strong enough grasp on this platform to understand how to implement this class within my main.py I'm building the rest of my app in.
This maybe a feeble attempt, but here is what I have so far:
twa = twitter_auth
client = twa.OAuthClient('twitter')
I've created a source folder within my project called "twitter_auth" and that contains a file within it called "twitter_auth.py" which contains the above linked library, and a file called __ init__.py (no space) which is completely empty.
I really have no idea what to do from here :/
Let me recommend taking a look at the tweepy library and some example tweepy apps. Specifically here: http://github.com/wasauce/tweepy-examples
This shows how to use oauth to authenticate a user: http://github.com/wasauce/tweepy-examples/tree/master/appengine/oauth_example/
As Hagge said, it sounds like your issue is more with the tweetapp library than with App Engine. However, if you would like to know more about OAuth on App Engine and if I may be allowed to link to myself, my two articles on the topic seem to be reasonably popular.
The tweetapp library was a an early prototype for Twitter OAuth on twitter. Tav did the heavy lifting and I deployed the site http://twitteroauth.appspot.com , using some of the tweetapp library. The actual source of that site is here (I need to update the site to point here): http://github.com/ryanwi/twitteroauth
I am still using it in production, but, it has aged and does not work for all API calls. I'd recommend trying a different, more up to date and maintained library as others have mentioned.
But, take a look at the twitteroauth source if you want to try to get a first attempt working.
These two are on Twitter's list
http://github.com/brosner/python-oauth2
http://code.google.com/p/oauth-python-twitter2/
I'm not familiar with that library, but after a quick look and seeing the warning that it is not maintained I'd search for something better. I implemented a simple Twitter connection based on Tornado's auth: see an example of how to make Twitter API calls here (and an authentication example here). In case you don't want to use tipfy, I recommend implementing the python-twitter library in your framework of choice.