pminterface 0.9

Paasmaker Python interface library

This is a simple Python library that is designed to read in the Paasmaker configuration of the container, falling back to a custom configuration file in development.

You can read more about the Paasmaker PaaS at http://paasmaker.org/.

Usage

In the startup of your application create an interface object. Supply the constructor with a list of locations to look for override configuration files for development. You won’t need override configuration files if you are using the development directory SCM in Paasmaker.

import pminterface

interface = pminterface.PaasmakerInterface(['../my-project.yml'])

interface.is_on_paasmaker() # Returns true if on Paasmaker.

# Raises NameError if no such service exists.
service = interface.get_service('named-service')
# service now is a dict of the parameters. Typically this will
# have the keys 'hostname', 'username', 'password', etc. Use this
# to connect to revelant services.

# Get other application metadata.
application = interface.get_application_name()

Override configuration files can be in either YAML or JSON format. If using the YAML format, be sure to install pyyaml first. If pyyaml isn’t present, only the JSON format is supported, and it will raise an exception when trying to read YAML files.

Example YAML configuration file:

services:
  parameters:
    foo: bar

application:
  name: test
  version: 1
  workspace: Test
  workspace_stub: test

Example JSON configuration file:

{
        "services": {
                "parameters": {
                        "foo": "bar"
                }
        },
        "application": {
                "name": "test",
                "version": 1,
                "workspace": "Test",
                "workspace_stub": "test"
        }
}

Development

You can run the unit tests with the test.py script in the root directory.

The code is currently stored on BitBucket at:

[e-mail]:paasmaker/paasmaker-interface-python.git

Feel free to fork and submit pull requests.