gidgetlab

gidgetlab

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An asynchronous GitLab API_ library.

This library is based on gidgethub_ from Brett Cannon, an async GitHub API library.

I liked the concept with the asynchronous and sans-I/O_ approach and decided to adapt it to the GitLab's API. All credit to Brett Cannon <https://github.com/brettcannon/>_ for the initial library!

Quick start

Here is a complete example of a server that responds to webhooks which will greet the author and say thanks whenever an issue is opened::

from gidgetlab.aiohttp import GitLabBot

bot = GitLabBot("beenje")


@bot.router.register("Issue Hook", action="open")
async def issue_opened_event(event, gl, *args, **kwargs):
    """Whenever an issue is opened, greet the author and say thanks."""
    url = f"/projects/{event.project_id}/issues/{event.object_attributes['iid']}/notes"
    message = f"Thanks for the report @{event.data['user']['username']}! I will look into it ASAP! (I'm a bot)."
    await gl.post(url, data={"body": message})


if __name__ == "__main__":
    bot.run()

Installation

Gidgetlab is available on PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/gidgetlab/>_.

::

python3 -m pip install gidgetlab

To install web server support (e.g. for aiohttp or tornado), specify it as an extra dependency:

::

python3 -m pip install gidgetlab[aiohttp]

Note that the library is still in alpha development stage.

Goals

The key goal is the same as gidgethub_ (but for GitLab): to provide an async base library for the GitLab API_ which performs no I/O of its own (a sans-I/O_ library).

Another goal is to easily write GitLab bots: applications that run automation on GitLab, using GitLab WebHooks and API. This was inspired by Mariatta <https://github.com/Mariatta>_ PyCon 2018 workshop: Build-a-GitHub-Bot Workshop <http://github-bot-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html>_.

Alternative libraries

If you think you want a different approach to the GitLab API, GitLab maintains a list of libraries <https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/rest/#third-party-clients>_.

.. _gidgethub: https://github.com/brettcannon/gidgethub .. _GitLab API: https://docs.gitlab.com/ce/api/ .. _sans-I/O: https://sans-io.readthedocs.io/