Veristack Python Client

Client for interfacing to Veristack

Usage

from veristack import (
    Client, Event, DeviceDetails, PersonDetails, FileDetails, ACT_READ,
)

client = Client(
    client_id='8ee21be2-3284-48e7-ac07-c4dc33769014',
    client_secret='9ed2cd6a-14d5-432a-9518-b59043adde0a',
    uid='abcd',
    url='https://getfilehub.com/')
client.fetch_token()

client.get('https://getfilehub.com/api/accounts/')

event = Event(
    action_type=ACT_READ,
    device=DeviceDetails(),
    person=PersonDetails(username='foo', email='[email protected]',
                         fullname='Foo B. Bar'),
    files=[
        FileDetails.from_path('/path/to/file.txt'),
    ],
)

client.send_events([event])

If the server fails to process the event, an IOError is raised. If sending many messages at once (as shown above), it is hard to trace the error back to the individual event, also, only a portion of the events will have been sent. Further, this method opens and closes a connection for each batch being sent.

For a streaming interface (a persistent connection), you can use a slightly different method of writing events.

with client.get_event_writer() as writer:
    for e in events:
        writer.write(e)

This may be more suitable when dispatching events from a queue (so that they can be left in queue until accepted by the server.)

Generating test data

This package also provides an event generating tool named Genny. This tool will produce event streams for testing purposes. To use this tool, simply do:

VERIFY_SSL_CERTIFICATES=no python -m veristack --client-id=<id> --client-secret=<secret> --host=https://localhost/ --token-file=oauth.token

The above will disable SSL certificate checks, connect to the event receiver and send some events. The --token-file parameter saves the token to a file after it is obtained, reusing it on subsequent runs (instead of fetching a new token each time).

Testing

Install required dependencies:

pip install -r test.txt

Run tests and generate coverage report:

python -m pytest