PostgREST Python Client

This repository provides a generic python REST client for any PostgREST server with a PostgreSQL database behind it.

This client implements the following features:

• Login
• JWT Auth
• HTTP GET
• Pagination of result sets based on Content-Range header

PostgREST installation and configuration is beyond the scope of this document.

See http://postgrest.com/ for more information.

Installation and configuration

0. Clone this repository

    git clone https://github.com/davidthewatson/postgrest_python_requests_client.git
   

1. Install requirements

    pip install -r requirements.txt
   

2. Copy config.in to config.py

    cp config.in config.py
   

3. Edit credentials and urls in config.in to suit

    vi config.py
   

4. Save config.py

    [esc]:wq
   

5. Run

    python client.py
   

The example above uses python 3.5. You may have to edit the source to accommodate python versions < 3.5. For instance:

from __future__ import print_function

david watson