On 2/17/2011 10:17 AM, andrea crotti wrote:
2011/2/17 Matty Sarro <msa...@gmail.com <mailto:msa...@gmail.com>> This may be kind of a stupid question, so please be gentle. I've only ever used most programming in the past when shell scripting couldn't handle what I needed done. So, I rarely dabble with things like API's, or even python-isms. I just program to get things done. Well, that's about to change :) I am in charge of deploying a platform to allow people across my company to access a variety of crunched metrics using splunk. I need to allow access into the data using Splunk's RESTful API, which is implemented in both java and python. The thing is, I have no idea how to do that. I've looked through some of the documentation, and it has me start a pydoc server on the system but when i navigate to the page it just shows listings of functions. The descriptions would be great, except they don't really tell me a lot. For instance, nothing really seems to say "fetchRecord(user_name) fetches all records matching a particular user name". Further, how do I actually use the API? I appreciate any of the pointers you can offer. Its a big part of this project, but my minor knowledge in programming isn't helping me much here. -Matty -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list Well things are not always (almost never) documented as you would like. A suggestion I can give is to use ipython and play with the modules. Pass something in and see what you get. And better yet write some unit tests to see if the functions do what you expect they do. If the API is not completely dumb you should understand quickly how to use it. Also some other code that uses that library might be useful.
What would also help is a toy database small enough so you can calculate by hand what answers you expect to get.
-- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
