python tricks

Getting dictionaries back from a http endpoint usually results in a mess of objects. Dealing with this in python can be a challenge of ValueError exceptions. so what is the easiest way to handle this? a nested get. if the object looks like

message={"detail":{"operation":"create"}}

then you can access it like this

>>> message.get('detail', {}).get('operation')
create

then if you access something that doesn’t exist you will get a nice None back

>>> print(message.get('detail', {}).get('notoperation'))
None

hurray safe handling hey

use the base64 for the first header and then reuse the bearer token that you get back.

import requests
import json
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth

    headers = {
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        'Accept': 'application/json'
    }
    
    base_url = 'https://www.something.com'
    token_url = "/tauth/1.0/token/"
    url=base_url + token_url
    response = requests.post(url, headers=headers, auth=HTTPBasicAuth(USER, PASSWORD))
    data = response.json()
    
    #reusing that bearer token from the repsonse
    headers = {
        'Authorization': f"Bearer {data['token']}",
        'Content-Type': 'application/json',
        'Accept': 'application/json'
    }
    url="/something/"
    response=requests.get( url, headers=headers)
    data = response.json()