For we all have mostly the same problems or requirements i will publish all scripts i wrote to perform recurring or annoying tasks. To work with web api, firstly we need to choose a web service that serves its data over an api. Core api guide learn how to use our xmlrpc api to control your spacewalk server. Slate is a python package that simplifies the process of extracting text from pdf files. Spacewalk is opensource systems management software for system provisioning, patching and configuration licensed under the gnu gplv2. Python commands and scripts can be executed in metashape in one of the following ways.
There are a few other types of requests, which you can learn more about, along with working with api authentication, in our dataquest apis and scraping course. Absolute beginners guide to slaying apis using python. Make your first python app with apipython api example. Python scripting is supported only in metashape professional edition. Spacewalk is the upstream community project from which the red hat network satellite product is derived. Trying to use python api of spacewalk, quite lost ive never programmed anything successfully before, but have stolen some good scripts and adjusted them to my benefit.
The portable document format or pdf is a file format that can be used to present and exchange documents reliably across operating systems. Demonstrate the power of using apis and other ways of integration in suse. What are the differences between spacewalk and red hat satellite. The spacewalk management framework has been featured in a previous admin issue.
These are a few scripts which utilize the spacewalk api to perform various tasks. The handson python tutorial was originally a document to read, with both the html version and a pdf version. Spacewalk is the upstream community project from which the red hat satellite product is derived. Comprehensive api tutorial just the tip of the iceberg, much more to discover. This api is in development and will be extended in the future metashape releases. Spacewalk manages software content updates for red hat derived distributions such as fedora, centos, and scientific. For more information, see the spacecmd1 manual page.
Some people learn better visually and verbally from the very beginning. The spacewalk api offers a very comprehensive approach to performing every imaginable task on the server. How to use an api with python beginners guide python. System management with spacewalk tips for managing centos. Spacewalk is an open source linux systems management solution.
Javadoc output java stack epydoc output python stack. For example, use the following xmlrpc request to login to the api and request a session key for. We also have lowlevel developer apis autogenerated from the code of each release of spacewalk. For example, use the following xmlrpc request to login to the api and request a session key for authentication. Even if you do not print it, some people use the pdf version online, preferring its formatting to the formatting in the html version. Installing patches on a system mounted usr8 readonly. Beginning python, advanced python, and python exercises author. You can work with a preexisting pdf in python by using the pypdf2 package. While the pdf was originally invented by adobe, it is now an open standard that is maintained by the international organization for standardization iso. Api guide for perl a user contributed guide to using the spacewalk api in perl. Now youve completed our python api tutorial, you now should be able to access a simple api and make get requests. Table of contentswhat is a rest api from a python perspectivetypes of requestsprerequisitesstatus codesendpointsgetting a json response from an api requesthow to start using an api with python1. Developer documentation learn how to work on and build spacewalk, and how spacewalk is put together. Python toolkit for automating system maintenance and generating csvpdf patch reports along.