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## Accessing PostgREST API using Python Requests and Requests-JWT
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## Python Client for PostgREST API
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This code relies on setting up the PostgreSQL auth functions and grants correctly first. Follow these instructions:
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### Setup PostgreSQL
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http://postgrest.com/examples/users/
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This code relies on setting up the PostgreSQL auth functions and grants correctly first. Follow [these instructions](http://postgrest.com/examples/users/).
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After completing the configuration, be sure to create a user with email, password, role, and verified flag. We'll use that user to login in the code below.
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After completing the PostgreSQL configuration, be sure to create a user with email, password, role, and verified flag. We'll use that user to login in the code below.
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Install the required libraries
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### Setup PostgREST
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pip install requests
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pip install requests-jwt
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Next, setup PostgREST according to the documentation [http://postgrest.com/install/server/](here).
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Then, from a python interpreter or script:
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### Setup Python Client
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import requests
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import requests_jwt
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import json
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Finally, we'll install and configure the python client. Follow the instructions in the [README](https://github.com/davidthewatson/postgrest_python_requests_client/blob/master/README.md). Be sure to set the [credentials](https://github.com/davidthewatson/postgrest_python_requests_client/blob/master/config.in#L3-L5) and [urls](https://github.com/davidthewatson/postgrest_python_requests_client/blob/master/config.in#L7-L9) in config.py.
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# email and password auth through postgrest
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resp = requests.post('http://localhost:3000/rpc/login', json={"email": "you@yours.com", "pass": "dog"})
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if resp.status_code != 200:
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raise Exception()
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### Python Client Functions
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# JWT auth using the token above
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token = json.loads(resp.text)['token']
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auth = requests_jwt.JWTAuth(token)
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if r.status_code != 200:
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raise Exception()
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There are four primary functions to the python client:
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# Make a request to get the range header
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r = requests.get('http://localhost:3000/posts', auth=auth)
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* login
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* construct_jwt_auth
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* get_result_size
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* get_range
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# Extract the size of the resultset from the Content-Range
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upper_bound = int(r.headers['Content-Range'].split('/')[1])
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The *login* and *construct_jwt_auth* functions will be required for any REST client using a PostgREST server, since a JWT auth instance is presumed.
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# Handle pagination using the Range header
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for i in range(0, upper_bound, 20):
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this_range = '{0}-{1}'.format(i, i+20 if i+20 < upper_bound else upper_bound)
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headers = {"Range": "{}".format(this_range)}
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r = requests.get('http://localhost:3000/posts', auth=auth, headers=headers)
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if r.status_code != 200:
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raise Exception()
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page = r.json()
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# put page into pagination control or the like
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The *get_result_size* and *get_range* functions are designed specifically for result sets where pagination is required. You can certainly use them for a single page result set that does not require pagination, but that may be overkill.
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The preceding HTTP client example should work on Python 3.x. If you're using python < 3.x you may need to change the print functions to statements or use:
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### Login
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The [login function](https://github.com/davidthewatson/postgrest_python_requests_client/blob/master/client.py#L12-L17) takes email and password strings (credentials.email and credentials.password, respectively from the config.py) and return the response.
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from __future__ import print_function
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### Construct JWT Auth
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The [construct_jwt_auth](https://github.com/davidthewatson/postgrest_python_requests_client/blob/master/client.py#L20-L23) function takes the auth response returned by the login function, retrieves the token in the response, and returns a JWT auth instance to the caller. The JWT auth instance can then be used for successive calls to the same PostgREST service.
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### Get Result Size
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The [get_result_size](https://github.com/davidthewatson/postgrest_python_requests_client/blob/master/client.py#L26-L30) function takes a JWT auth instance calls the URL at urls.data, extracts the size of the result set from the response object and returns the size.
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### Get Range
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The [get_range](https://github.com/davidthewatson/postgrest_python_requests_client/blob/master/client.py#L26-L30) function takes a beginning range, ending range, page size, and JWT auth instance, gets only that range of the available result set and returns JSON for that result set.
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