Marc, there is a python module called pyars that covers most of the ARS API and CMDB functions.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyars/ We use it for automizing migration stuff for ARS and find it quite useful and stable. Cheers Dirk -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:47:14 -0500 Von: Marc Nations <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Betreff: Newb needs API help...couple of questions > Hello all, > > For starters, I'm trying to integrate the Remedy API into a Python > application. That is my ultimate goal. So if anyone has any experience > with that or knows where some sample code is, I'd appreciate it. I'm > going to use ctypes to make the dll calls and am building the > structures. > > However, I've hit a wall so far with Python so I decided to run some > example code in C and follow the process. I don't understand what is > happening here, so I'm hoping someone could explain it to me. I am > running the example given in the Remedy API documentation (with a > couple of small modifications): > > Let me start off by saying that the code works, however almost > seemingly by accident. The problem is when I step through it using > Visual Studio, it doesn't respond like I thought it would. Here's the > problem: > > Right now I have the application set up to fail at the initialization > stage. So at Step A (marked below) I should see a failure after the > ARInitialization call is made. However that is not the case. Instead I > get back a response of '0', and it does not fall into the exception > loop. > > Instead it moves on and attempts the ARGetListSchema call. At Step B is > when the error for the initialization is actually recognized. So then > it falls in the exception loop, prints out the error that was supposed > to be printed in ARInit loop, and finishes execution. > > This also means that the status list is not being freed like is > supposed to happen during the FreeARStatusList proc. It's still there > when the next function is called. > > So in the end the application does work, but it's not failing at the > correct place. So until I understand how this is supposed to properly > work, there's no way I'll be able to get it interfaced over to another > language. Does anyone know what either I or it is doing wrong? > > Thanks, > Marc > > > // ARS.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application. > // > > #include "stdafx.h" > > #include "ar.h" > #include "arextern.h" > #include "arfree.h" > > void printStatusList(ARStatusList *theList) > { > unsigned int i; > for (i=0; i< theList -> numItems; i++) > { > if (theList -> statusList[i].appendedText == NULL || > theList -> statusList[i].appendedText == '\0') > printf("%s", theList -> statusList[i].messageText); > else > printf("%s:%s", theList -> > statusList[i].messageText, > theList -> statusList[i].appendedText); > printf("(ARERR %d)\n", theList -> > statusList[i].messageNum); > printf("(Type %d)\n", theList -> > statusList[i].messageType); > } > } > > int main(void) > { > ARControlStruct control = > {0,0,"TEST_REMEDY","TEST_REMEDY02","",0,"","TSTREMEDY01"}; > ARNameList formNameList; > unsigned int i; > unsigned int ARInt; > unsigned int ARGetInt; > ARStatusList status; > > ARInt = ARInitialization(&control, &status); > > ----------------------------------------------------------STEP > A-------------------------------------------- > > printf("(ARInt %d)\n", ARInt); > > if ( ARInt >= AR_RETURN_ERROR) > { > printStatusList(&status); > FreeARStatusList(&status, FALSE); > return 1; > } > > FreeARStatusList(&status, FALSE); > > > ARGetInt = ARGetListSchema(&control, 0, > AR_LIST_SCHEMA_ALL|AR_HIDDEN_INCREMENT, > NULL,NULL, > &formNameList, &status); > > ----------------------------------------------------------STEP > B-------------------------------------------- > > if(ARGetInt >= AR_RETURN_ERROR) > printStatusList(&status); > else > { > for (i=0; i<formNameList.numItems; i++) > printf("%s\n",formNameList.nameList[i]); > } > > FreeARStatusList(&status, FALSE); > FreeARNameList(&formNameList, FALSE); > if(ARTermination(&control,&status) >= AR_RETURN_ERROR) > printStatusList(&status); > FreeARStatusList(&status, FALSE); > } > > _______________________________________________________________________________ > UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where > the Answers Are" _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org ARSlist:"Where the Answers Are"
