Greetings.
I started to write a proposal[1] for the python section of REST
examples[2]. Almost textually based on the cURL examples[3]. I aim to
do all the examples.
I could change the idea and do a more creative work with another
examples, but first i would like to know if it is of your liking.
[1] https://gist.github.com/jgomo3/73f38cc5a91d85146ccf
[2] http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/rest/examples/python.html
[3] http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/rest/examples/curl.html
Yay! This is a great idea
Only comments are that I’d strongly suggest using requests in all the examples and just say “you can use the builtin http/urllib modules to achieve the same thing if for some reason you can’t use requests”. It is so much nicer, especially around error handling, auth, data encoding, …
Personally I’d also suggest using JSON rather than XML, and if you still want to use XML then construct/parse it using a proper library that escapes values correctly, rather than using string substitutions.
My 2c, feel free to ignore though
Rob 
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This appears to be examples of using python "in the raw" to use REST (which is a fine thing) but not examples of how to use gsconfig.py?
(which is what I was expecting)
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2014-11-13 15:22 GMT-04:30 Robert Coup <robert.coup@anonymised.com>:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Jesús Gómez <jgomo3@anonymised.com> wrote:
I started to write a proposal[1] for the python section of REST
examples[2]. Almost textually based on the cURL examples[3]. I aim to
do all the examples.I could change the idea and do a more creative work with another
examples, but first i would like to know if it is of your liking.Yay! This is a great idea
Only comments are that I'd strongly suggest using requests in all the
examples and just say "you can use the builtin http/urllib modules to
achieve the same thing if for some reason you can't use requests". It is so
much nicer, especially around error handling, auth, data encoding, ...Personally I'd also suggest using JSON rather than XML, and if you still
want to use XML then construct/parse it using a proper library that escapes
values correctly, rather than using string substitutions.My 2c, feel free to ignore though
Thank you for your feedback. Maybe the gain on legibility is worth the
"effort" of installing "requests". Ok, i'll do it with requests, maybe
JSON and evaluate the gsconfig.py
Rob
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2014-11-13 15:37 GMT-04:30 Phil Scadden <p.scadden@anonymised.com>:
This appears to be examples of using python "in the raw" to use REST
(which is a fine thing) but not examples of how to use gsconfig.py?
(which is what I was expecting)
I overview the `gsconfig`. If i play with it, it will flawlessly hide
all the REST concepts. Am I right?.
It seems that the examples in the Geoserver Documentation
REST section are there to ilustrate the interaction with the REST
conecpts. If this is true:
* I'll go with writing the examples using the `requests` library.
* It would be of value to include a `gsconfig` section in the
Geoserver Documentation, independently from the REST section.
Else:
* Definitely `gsconfig`.
Does this make sense to you?.
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I think documented both is good idea. I like having the curl examples rendered in Python, but it would be also good to have outline of what gsconfig.py can do for you.
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