directory-api-client 14.0.0

Python client for Directory API.

directory-api-client

Export Directory internal API client.

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Installation

$ pip install directory-api-client

The api client expects the following settings:

Setting	Notes
DIRECTORY_API_CLIENT_BASE_URL
DIRECTORY_API_CLIENT_API_KEY	Unique to client. Retrieved during the on-boarding process.
DIRECTORY_API_CLIENT_SENDER_ID	Unique to client. Retrieved during the on-boarding process.
DIRECTORY_API_CLIENT_DEFAULT_TIMEOUT

The following directory client core settings also apply to directory cms client:

Setting	Notes
DIRECTORY_CLIENT_CORE_CACHE_EXPIRE_SECONDS	Duration to store the retrieved content in the cache.
DIRECTORY_CLIENT_CORE_CACHE_LOG_THROTTLING_SECONDS	Duration to throttle log events for a given url for.

And the caching expects the following key in CACHES setting: api_fallback

Once that is done the API client can be used:

from directory_api_client.client import api_client

Development

$ git clone https://github.com/uktrade/directory-api-client
$ cd directory-api-client
$ [create virtual environment and activate]
$ make test_requirements

Publish to PyPI

The package should be published to PyPI on merge to master. If you need to do it locally then get the credentials from rattic and add the environment variables to your host machine:

Setting
DIRECTORY_PYPI_USERNAME
DIRECTORY_PYPI_PASSWORD

Then run the following command:

$ make publish