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Quickbase-Client
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A High-Level Quickbase Python API Client & Model Generator
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*Quickbase-Client is a library for interacting with Quickbase applications through their
RESTful JSON API (https://developer.quickbase.com/). It has features to generate model classes
for tables in your Quickbase app, and provides high level classes to interface between Python
objects and the Quickbase tables.*
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Quick Start
============
Installation
____________
Installation can be done through pip:
.. code-block:: bash
pip install quickbase-client
This will install both the library ``quickbase_client``, and a command line tool ``qbc`` for
running some handy scripts.
Generating your Models
----------------------
To interact and authenticate with your Quickbase applications you need a User Token. You can read
the Quickbase documentation `here <https://developer.quickbase.com/auth>`_ on how to create one.
It is recommended to set an environment variable ``QB_USER_TOKEN`` with this value:
.. code-block:: bash
export QB_USER_TOKEN=mytokenfromquickbase;
Next, say you have a hypothetical Quickbase Application named MyApp at
``https://foo.quickbase.com/db/abcdef`` that has tables for tracking things
against a repository like Issues & Pipelines.
.. image:: /images/example_table.png
:width: 500
:alt: Example Table
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Running the following:
.. code-block:: bash
qbc run model-generate -a https://foo.quickbase.com/db/abcdef
Would generate a directory structure like
::
models
├── __init__.py
└── my_app
├── __init__.py
├── app.py
├── github_issue.py
└── gitlab_pipeline.py
And classes like ``GitHubIssue`` where you can interact with the data model through a Python object.
Writing Records to Quickbase
----------------------------
Classes like ``GitHubIssue`` that subclass ``QuickbaseTable`` also get a factory class-method
``client(user_tok)`` which creates an instance of the higher-level ``QuickbaseTableClient`` to
make API requests for things related to that table:
.. code-block:: python
client = GitHubIssue.client(user_tok=os.environ['QB_USER_TOKEN'])
new_issue = GitHubIssue(
title='Something broke', # you get friendly-kwargs for fields without worrying about ID's
description='Please fix!',
date_opened=date.today() # things like Python date objects will be serialized
)
response = client.add_record(new_issue)
print(response.json()) # all methods (except for query) return the requests Response object
Querying Records from Quickbase
-------------------------------
You can also use the client object to send queries to the Quickbase API through the ``query``
method. This method will serialize the data back in to a Python object. The `query` method on the
table class takes a ``QuickbaseQuery`` object which is high level wrapper around the parameters
needed to make a query.
Notably, the ``where`` parameter for specifying the query string. There is one (and in the future
there will be more) implementation of this which allows you to build query-strings through
higher-level python functions.
You can use the methods exposed in the ``quickbase_client.query`` module like so:
.. code-block:: python
# convention to append an underscore to these methods to avoid clashing
# with any python keywords
from quickbase_client.query import on_or_before_
from quickbase_client.query import eq_
from quickbase_client.query import and_
schema = GitHubIssue.schema
q = and_(
eq_(schema.date_opened, schema.date_created),
on_or_before_(schema.date_closed, date(2020, 11, 16))
)
print(q.where) # ({'9'.EX.'_FID_1'}AND{'10'.OBF.'11-16-2020'})
recs = client.query(q) # recs will be GitHubIssue objects unless passing raw=True
print([str(r) for r in recs]) # ['<GitHubIssue title="Made And Closed Today" id="10000">']
Controlling Lower-Level API Calls
---------------------------------
Lastly, say you want to deal with just posting the specific json/data Quickbase is looking for.
The ``QuickbaseTableClient`` object wraps the lower-level ``QuickbaseApiClient`` object which has
methods for just sending the actual data (with an even lower-level utility
``QuickbaseRequestFactory`` you could also use). These classes manage hanging on to the user token,
and the realm hostname, etc. for each request that is made.
For example, note the signature of ``query`` in ``QuickbaseApiClient``:
.. code-block:: python
def query(self, table_id, fields_to_select=None, where_str=None,
sort_by=None, group_by=None, options=None):
You can get to this class by going through the table client: ``api = client.api``, or from
instantiating it directly ``api = QuickbaseApiClient(my_user_token, my_realm)``
With this, we could make the exact same request as before:
.. code-block:: python
api = QuickbaseApiClient(user_token='my_token', realm_hostname='foo.quickbase.com')
response = api.query(
table_id='abcdef',
where_str="({'9'.EX.'_FID_1'}AND{'10'.OBF.'11-16-2020'})")
data = response.json()
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More Resources
==============
- `examples </examples>`_ directory.
- `CONTRIBUTING </CONTRIBUTING.md>`_
- `LICENSE </LICENSE.md>`_
Other Notes
====================
Currently a bunch of duplicate aliases for ``QuickBase`` to ``Quickbase`` since this
was originally released with everything prefixed as ``QuickBase-``. But since Quickbase
is branding more to "Quickbase", this will eventually be the main naming for
version 1.0 in an effort to keep more consistent. So prefer to use `Quickbase-` prefixed classes
as in the future the other aliases will be dropped.
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