#HELPeR
HELPeR is a personal IFTTT clone because who wants to give a corporation access to ALL your online accounts?!
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Agents
HELPeR consists of Agents. Agents should be a python module. For the purposes
of this README we'll be discussing a hypothetical Agent called foobar
.
Agent Configs
If an agent needs it, a config can be created for it in the DB.
Agent Config Views
An agent can define a views if it as a config in foobar.view
. They will be
loaded at /agent_config/<AGENT_CONFIG_ID>/<AGENT_VIEW>
. They must be
specified in foobar.ACTION_CONFIG_KEYS
ex: /agent/1/Foo
will call foobar.views.Foo.as_view(request, agent_config)
The main purpose of this is to allow for building of extra view for things like
oauth. See helper.agents.facebook.views.FBLogin
for an example
Tasks
Agents' tasks live in foobar.tasks
. These should be celery tasks. Tasks are
either a 'cause' and output a list of events (flat dicts) or an
'effect' which accepts a list of events do do with as it pleases.
Cause & effect tasks are paired as TaskPair objects. Each TaskPair has 2 tasks defined, one cause and one effect, and a set options for both.
Task execution
Tasks get called with a union of the a AgentConfig options and the relevant options in TaskPair (eg: cause tasks get called with cause_options).
Task views
Tasks can have a view at foobar.views.TaskView
. They are dispatched through a
TaskPair. POSTs going to the cause view and GETs going to the effect view. Both
require a secret in the task's options to match the URL segment with the
secret.
ex: POST to /task/6/SECRET
calls TaskPair(id=6)'s cause view
This is best combined with the Event model to accumulate events and a scheduled cause task that loads events from the DB.