AYON server API

Python client for connection server. The client is using REST and GraphQl to communicate with server with requests module.

AYON Python api should support connection to server with raw REST functions and prepared functionality for work with entities. Must not contain only functionality that can be used with core server functionality.

Module support singleton connection which is using AYON_SERVER_URL and AYON_API_KEY environment variables as source for connection. The singleton connection is using ServerAPI object. There can be created multiple connection to different server at one time, for that purpose use ServerAPIBase object.

Install

AYON python api is available on PyPi:

pip install ayon-python-api

For development purposes you may follow build guide to build and install custom wheels.

Cloning the repository

Repository does not have submodules or special cases. Clone is simple as:

git clone [email protected]:ynput/ayon-python-api.git

Build wheel

For wheel build is required a wheel module from PyPi:

pip install wheel

Open terminal and change directory to ayon-python-api repository and build wheel:

cd <REPOSITORY ROOT>/ayon-python-api
python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel   

Once finished a wheel should be created in ./dist/ayon_python_api-<VERSION>-py3-none-any.

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Wheel installation

The wheel file can be used to install using pip:

pip install <REPOSITORY ROOT>/dist/ayon_python_api-<VERSION>-py3-none-any

If pip complain that ayon-python-api is already installed just uninstall existing one first:

pip uninstall ayon-python-api

TODOs

• Find more suitable name of ServerAPI objects (right now is used con or connection)
• Add all available CRUD operation on entities using REST
• Add folder and task changes to operations
• Enhance entity hub
  • Missing docstrings in EntityHub -> especially entity arguments are missing
  • Better order of arguments for entity classes
    • Move entity hub to first place
    • Skip those which are invalid for the entity and fake it for base or remove it from base
  • Entity hub should use operations session to do changes
  • Entity hub could also handle 'product', 'version' and 'representation' entities
  • Missing 'status' on folders
  • Missing assignees on tasks
  • Pass docstrings and arguments definitions from ServerAPI methods to global functions
• Split ServerAPI into smaller chunks (somehow), the class has 4k+ lines of code
• Add .pyi stub for ServerAPI
• Missing websockets connection