Hypermea Core Library

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Introduction

The core library is used by the hypermea toolkit. It is not intended to be used by itself (though if you know what you are doing, you could).

When you create an API using hypermea, this library is automatically installed and is available for you to use.

Please see hypermea for the full toolkit and documentation.

The core library

The core library consists of the following modules. These are all wired up in your API when you created it using hypermea. Some parts of the library provide useful functions to API developers. Others are intended for internal use and will not likely be useful to you directly.

Useful

hypermea.core.utils

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• get_api() -> flask.testing.FlaskClient
• get_db() -> pymongo.database.Database
• is_mongo_running() -> bool (coming soon)

Note: the log_setup.py under utils is used to set up logging and has no uses for your API

validation

Describe the HypermeaValidator, used to add the following validations and types, as well as inheritable to extend:

validations

• unique_ignorecase
• unique_to_parent
• unique_to_owner (coming soon)
• remote_relation (coming soon)

types

• iso_date
• iso_time
• iso_duration

(link to Eve doc for more info on extending)

logging

background explanation, mention the addition to the standard python logging

• configures
  • standard formatting,
  • logging errors to SMTP (HY_LOG_TO_EMAIL),
  • logging to folder (HY_LOG_TO_FOLDER) - doco details (timed rotation at midnight, etc.)
• the TRACE level accessible with LOG.trace()
• the @trace decorator (enabled by default, disable by setting HY_TRACE_LOGGING to disable)

reference how to adjust the logging verbosity level in the hypermea docs

settings

details: singleton, pulls from environment variables, overridable with _env.conf, etc. (note no underscores in prefix)

• create(prefix: str, setting_name: str, default_value: str = None, is_optional: bool = False)
• set_prefix_description(prefix: str, description: str)
• has_enabled(setting_name: str) -> bool
• dump(prefix: str = None, callback: Optional[Callable[[str], None]] = None)
• get(setting_name: str, default_value: str = None)
• []

Not ones you will likely use directly

affordances

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gateway

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hooks

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render

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clean_href()

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