python-linode-api

The official python library for the Linode API in python.

This library is currently in beta.

Installation

pip install linode-api

Building from Source

To build and install this package:

• Clone this repository
• ./setup.py install

This package uses the linode namespace. This could conflict with libraries intended for previous versions of the Linode API. Please be cautious when installing packages for both version of the API on the same machine.

Usage

Check out the Getting Started guide to start using this library, or read the docs for extensive documentation.

Examples

See the Install on a Linode example project for a simple use case demonstrating many of the features of this library.

Contributing

Tests

Tests live in the tests directory. To run tests, use setup.py:

python setup.py test

The test suite uses fixtures stored as JSON in test/fixtures. These files contain sanitized JSON responses from the API - the file name is the URL called to produce the response, replacing any slashes with underscores.

Test classes should extend test.base.ClientBaseCase. This provides them with self.client, a LinodeClient object that is set up to work with tests. Importantly, any GET request made by this object will be mocked to retrieve data from the test fixtures. This includes lazy-loaded objects using this client (and by extension related models).

When testing against requests other than GET requests, self.mock_post (and equivalent methods for other HTTP verbs) can be used in a with block to mock out the intended request type - include the URL whose response should be used returned from the fixtures. For example:

with self.mock_post('/linode/instances/123'):
  linode = self.client.linode.create_instance('g5-standard-1', 'us-east')
  self.assertEqual(linode.id, 123) # passes

Documentation

This library is documented with Sphinx. Docs live in the docs directory. The easiest way to build the docs is to run sphinx-autobuild in that folder.

Classes and functions inside the library should be annotated with sphinx-compliant docstrings which will be used to automatically generate documentation for the library. When contributing, be sure to update documentation or include new docstrings where applicable to keep the library's documentation up to date and useful.

Missing or inaccurate documentation is a bug. If you notice that the documentation for this library is out of date or unclear, please open an issue to make us aware of the problem.