Originally by: foiblealt

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Getting errors when running apitest.py:

EXAMPLE 4: GETTING CHARACTER SHEET INFORMATION

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "apitest.py", line 153, in <module>
skilltree = api.eve.SkillTree()
File "/home/ibscott/eve/eveapi.py", line 143, in __call__
return self._root(self._path, **kw)
File "/home/ibscott/eve/eveapi.py", line 213, in __call__
obj = _Parser().Parse(response, True)
File "/home/ibscott/eve/eveapi.py", line 278, in Parse
p.ParseFile(data)
File "/home/ibscott/eve/eveapi.py", line 287, in tag_start
columns = attributes[attributes.index('columns')+1].split(",")
ValueError: list.index(x): x not in list

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Originally by: foiblealt

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Getting errors when running apitest.py

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Originally by: Entity

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# Now use the Get() method to get a row directly.
# Assumes ISD alliance exists. If it doesn't, we probably have bigger
# problems than the unhandled exception here -_-
print alliances_by_ticker.Get("ISD")

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Originally by: Macdeth

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Appears to bail on KillLog, CorporationSheet, and I think I saw it somewhere else but API server just went down as I was checking while composing this.

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Originally by: Invisible Hand

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Useful module, thanks for writing this!

Minor bug report: in _autocast() you do:

return int(mktime(strptime(s, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")))

However the time strings are in UTC, while mktime expects a tuple in the local timezone. So the parsed values are not the expected seconds-since-epoch value unless your local timezone happens to match UTC. This means that (among other things) you can't just compare cachedUntil to time.time().

I changed my copy to use calendar.timegm() instead of time.mktime() and it works perfectly now - all the time values are parsed into seconds-since-epoch.

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Originally by: Entity

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Originally by: Invisible Hand

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Useful module, thanks for writing this!

Minor bug report: in _autocast() you do:

return int(mktime(strptime(s, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")))

However the time strings are in UTC, while mktime expects a tuple in the local timezone. So the parsed values are not the expected seconds-since-epoch value unless your local timezone happens to match UTC. This means that (among other things) you can't just compare cachedUntil to time.time().

I changed my copy to use calendar.timegm() instead of time.mktime() and it works perfectly now - all the time values are parsed into seconds-since-epoch.

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Hmm, not sure about this one; I convert my local time to UTC before comparing times, and I wanted the input times to stay exactly as they are (which mktime achieves)... I guess it depends on which way you look at the problem :)

I'm not really a fan of timezone stuff in programming, so I might very well be doing this the wrong way around... Comments, anyone?

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Originally by: Invisible Hand

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Edited by: Invisible Hand on 22/12/2007 12:52:01
Note that without this change the simple&obvious caching mechanism used in apitest.py just doesn't work with any local timezone other than UTC.

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Originally by: Elandra Tenari

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Thanks for writing this, it's proving very useful.

One minor bug I found whilst processing KillLogs is that the raw Element for the Victim has no attributes. So I changed the if self.container._isrow: section of the tag_end function to pick up attributes on single elements.

My updated version here.

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Originally by: Entity

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Originally by: Invisible Hand

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Edited by: Invisible Hand on 22/12/2007 12:52:01
Note that without this change the simple&obvious caching mechanism used in apitest.py just doesn't work with any local timezone other than UTC.

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Actually, it works fine since im using the server times and calculate seconds-til-expiry and add it to local time. Have you actually tried it?

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1. What is the syntax for getting the next page, of for example the WalletJournal. I know it's an exercise for the reader, but I didn't manage to find the documentation for this in the library source-code yet.


2. How can I get the date+times for the currentTime and the cachedUntil from a element-object returned from a query?


3. Last a more general API-question: when several accounts have access to corporate WalletJournal, is the caching-time for everyone at the same time, or is it for each account seperately?

Originally by: Flios Bror

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What is the syntax for getting the next page, of for example the WalletJournal. I know it's an exercise for the reader, but I didn't manage to find the documentation for this in the library source-code yet.

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Originally by: Flios Bror

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How can I get the date+times for the currentTime and the cachedUntil from a element-object returned from a query?

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result = api.blablabla()
foo = result._meta.currentTime

Originally by: Flios Bror

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Last a more general API-question: when several accounts have access to corporate WalletJournal, is the caching-time for everyone at the same time, or is it for each account seperately?

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Originally by: Kanmahr

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Great work. There does however seem to be a problem with the trained to level of a skill. The values the API returns seem to be one over the current level. Currently working around it but would be nice to fix :)

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Originally by: Demiurgis

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will most of this work with a limited API key?

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Originally by: bowindah

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Nice wrapper.

I am trying to use it with AssetList which returns nested rowsets.

The following works,
for asset in result2.assets:
self.response.out.write("%s<br/>" % asset)

Sometimes it returns,
Row(itemID:271302566,locationID:61000108,typeID:588,quantity:1,flag:4,singleton:1,contents:Rowset(columns=[itemID,typeID,quantity,flag,singleton], rows=3))
whereas other times it returns,
Row(itemID:561829276,locationID:61000108,typeID:11489,quantity:1,flag:4,singleton:1,contents:None)

So my question is, how to test and enumerate over the nested Rowset?

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Originally by: Dragonaire

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I'd say counting on have a columns field is a bug myself ;)
There has been/are still other APIs that don't have it. Without a formal DTD or something from CCP you can't really call it wrong for it not to be there.

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Originally by: Dragonaire

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Don't think the flaming was called for

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Originally by: Dragonaire

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and if you were so involved then why didn't you make a DTD or XSD and release it? That would have not only help all the third party developers but also the people that followed you when adding new stuff to API.

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Originally by: Dragonaire

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As far as using the columns stuff to title page columns I don't do that because that would be mixing model and view which is usually considered bad form in MVC and doesn't let you have as much control over what fields you might want to show the users.

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Originally by: Dragonaire

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Next time you might try explain why you think it's a bug not attack someone for pointing out what sounds like a false assumption or statement to them for you to be making.

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Originally by: Dragonaire

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No problem Entity guess for my part the 'Uneducated response is uneducated.' comment just struck a nerve with me

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Quote:

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# Now use the Get() method to get a row directly.
# Assumes ISD alliance exists. If it doesn't, we probably have bigger
# problems than the unhandled exception here -_-
print alliances_by_ticker.Get("ISD")

# You may specify a default to return in case the row wasn't found:
print alliances_by_ticker.Get("123456", 42)

# If no default was specified and you try to look up a key that does not
# exist, an appropriate exception will be raised:
try:
print alliances_by_ticker.Get("123456")
except KeyError:
print "This concludes example 5"

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Quote:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Q:\eve_api_py_107\apitest.py", line 239, in <module>
print alliances_by_ticker.Get("ISD")
File "Q:\eve_api_py_107\eveapi.py", line 614, in Get
raise KeyError, key
KeyError: 'ISD'
>>>

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Originally by: Chop Shop

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Quote:

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# You may specify a default to return in case the row wasn't found:
print alliances_by_ticker.Get("123456", 42)

# If no default was specified and you try to look up a key that does not
# exist, an appropriate exception will be raised:
try:
print alliances_by_ticker.Get("123456")
except KeyError:
print "This concludes example 5"

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..and I guess the failsafe? of 123456 is something I would edit to be an existing alliance ticker? like BOB or OHGOD ?

Below is the python shell output I got -- I assume the output may be academic to you but I am working with the API and python for the first time.

Having said that, what is the significance of the ",42" above? Just wondering if I need to fiddle with that if I chance the alliance ticker..

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usernameByID = {1: "john", 2: "mark"}
x = 3
name = usernameByID.get(x, "guest")

usernameByID = {1: "john", 2: "mark"}
x = 3
try:
 name = usernameByID[x]
except KeyError:
 name = "guest"

Originally by: Chop Shop

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Quote:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
File "Q:\eve_api_py_107\apitest.py", line 239, in <module>
print alliances_by_ticker.Get("ISD")
File "Q:\eve_api_py_107\eveapi.py", line 614, in Get
raise KeyError, key
KeyError: 'ISD'
>>>

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Originally by: Entity

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Skillqueue works fine as far as I know.
It's just CCP using the incorrect XML formatting for the elements (should use rowsets), so I'm kind of waiting for CCP to correct this (I've made them aware of the problem), as fixing this in the api module would require making it aware of the SkillQueue method, which completely goes against the "anonymous" nature of the design.

As a workaround you can check whether there's just 1 skill element or a rowset. It's only 2-3 lines of code ;-)

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Originally by: Entity

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Well, it's been a few months and it's still working fine!

(anti thread lock bump)


Oh, anyone using Python 3 btw? I might consider making a version for that.

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Originally by: Alyzza

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Is it possible to retrieve the corporation sheet through the api without authenticating? The corp sheet should be available without limited key.

>>> api.corp.CorporationSheet()
Error: Must provide userID parameter for authentication

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Originally by: Ilyk Halibut

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Any chance we could get a Google Code project set up for this?

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Originally by: Entity

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Nope. blame CCP :P

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Originally by: SPACE L0RD

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KeyError: 'Expanded Cargohold II'

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for i in chars.characters:
 if charnom == i.name:
 charID = i.characterID
 break

Originally by: Xyfu

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for i in chars.characters:
 if charnom == i.name:
 charID = i.characterID
 break

charnom is user input, and chars is auth.account.Characters(). For some reason, charnom == i.name never evaluates true. Halp plix?

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Originally by: Entity

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Originally by: Xyfu

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for i in chars.characters:
 if charnom == i.name:
 charID = i.characterID
 break

charnom is user input, and chars is auth.account.Characters(). For some reason, charnom == i.name never evaluates true. Halp plix?

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It is case sensitive, so that might be it ;)

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Originally by: Xyfu

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Originally by: Entity

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It is case sensitive, so that might be it ;)

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Huh? Which bit? >:

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Originally by: Entity

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Your name?
Either fix charnom to spell your name with the correct case, or just do if charnom.lower() == i.name.lower().

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Please select the CEO from the above list: Xyfu
<type 'str'> <type 'unicode'> Xyfu Xyfu Xyfu

Xyfu
Select a CEO blah blah blah: 

Originally by: Entity

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Edited by: Entity on 03/10/2009 03:21:51
yeah well...
check the example here. that has the same construct you're using and that works fine, so you must be doing something wonky with your input :P

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Originally by: Alyzza

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There seems to be a bit of a "bug" when corporations have bytes in their description which can't be encoded as unicode.

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Originally by: Meldgaard

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And i fund the bug:
Eve api is utf-8 and the parser is using unicode strings.

Here is a quick and dirty fix: http://eveapi.rasmusm.dk/eveapi-utf-8.patch

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Originally by: Entity

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Edited by: Entity on 01/07/2010 02:13:38

Originally by: Meldgaard

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And i fund the bug:
Eve api is utf-8 and the parser is using unicode strings.

Here is a quick and dirty fix: http://eveapi.rasmusm.dk/eveapi-utf-8.patch

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Hm?. I'm not quite sure that is actually a bug. See, it's up to the implementor to output with the correct encoding for the target (in your case a console window).
The objects returned by the parser are supposed to be regular/unicode strings. If you encode them they technically stop being strings and start being binary data that just so happens to be some representation of said string.

Edit: Oh and welcome to the headache that is python and encodings.

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Originally by: Meldgaard

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The problem is (as i understand it, because yes this is my first time with utf-8 in python) that the eveapi are returning strings in uft-8, but in _Parser.__str__ you are calling str() on the variable holding the utf-8 string, this will cast an exception if the utf-8 string do include char outside of unicode (like in the description of the ccp created event about the ore primae)

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print unicode(event).encode("utf8")

Originally by: Nuran DeSiad

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Hi,

I'm quite new with the whole API thing...I wanted to start out with the Python eveapi to write some scripts for my own use...Python is also new to me...so please bear with me if I talk rubbish :)

My problem:

When I try to run the 'example.py' , I get the following errors:

./example.py: line 3: watchList: command not found
./example.py: line 4: [1234567,: command not found
./example.py: line 6: ]: command not found
./example.py: line 8: syntax error near unexpected token `('
./example.py: line 8: `api = eveapi.EVEAPIConnection()'\

I've added the userid and api key and the name to the script as described, and placed the eveapi.py in the site-packages directory. The python version I use is 2.6.4 on a Fedora 13 host. Anyone a tip ?

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Originally by: Nuran DeSiad

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Hi Entity,

Thanks...I was so fixed on this that I overlooked it...Anyway...when I run
'python example.py', it chokes again, and returns this message:

python example.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "example.py", line 1, in <module>
import eveapi
File "/home/andy/Projects/eveapi.py", line 7
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

cheers,
Nuran

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Originally by: XennoX268

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I'm getting hit by the following error when trying to use the test script.

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EXAMPLE 2: GETTING WALLET BALANCE OF ALL YOUR CHARACTERS


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\me\Desktop\EVE API Project\eveapi.py", line 176, in _ParseXML
raise Error(error.code, error.data)
Error: Authentication failure

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Originally by: Entity

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Originally by: XennoX268

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I'm getting hit by the following error when trying to use the test script.

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EXAMPLE 2: GETTING WALLET BALANCE OF ALL YOUR CHARACTERS


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\me\Desktop\EVE API Project\eveapi.py", line 176, in _ParseXML
raise Error(error.code, error.data)
Error: Authentication failure

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Reading line 17 might help.

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Originally by: XennoX268

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Originally by: Entity

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Originally by: XennoX268

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I'm getting hit by the following error when trying to use the test script.

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EXAMPLE 2: GETTING WALLET BALANCE OF ALL YOUR CHARACTERS


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\me\Desktop\EVE API Project\eveapi.py", line 176, in _ParseXML
raise Error(error.code, error.data)
Error: Authentication failure

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Reading line 17 might help.

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Except, I've put my userID plus full API key into the script, and checked it multiple times.

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membersraw = auth.corp.MemberTracking(characterID=YOUR_CHARID)

for member in membersraw.members:
print member.name, member.startDateTime

Originally by: Mr Coloredshirt

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I get the name properly, but the startDateTime outputs things like 1290793680, when it should be 2010-11-26 17:48:00 (or atleast something like 2010112661748). Color me confused, please help.

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Originally by: Catari Taga

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Originally by: Mr Coloredshirt

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I get the name properly, but the startDateTime outputs things like 1290793680, when it should be 2010-11-26 17:48:00 (or atleast something like 2010112661748). Color me confused, please help.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

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Originally by: Entity

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New update

# Version: 1.1.6 - 27 May 2011
# - Now supports composite keys for IndexRowsets.
# - Fixed calls not working if a path was specified in the root url.

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Quote:

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python apitest.py

EXAMPLE 1: GETTING THE ALLIANCE LIST
(and showing alliances with 1000 or more members)

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "apitest.py", line 46, in <module>
result1 = api.eve.AllianceList()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/eveapi.py", line 251, in __call__
return self._root(self._path, **kw)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/eveapi.py", line 306, in __call__
http.request("GET", path)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 914, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 951, in _send_request
self.endheaders()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 908, in endheaders
self._send_output()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 780, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 739, in send
self.connect()
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/httplib.py", line 1112, in connect
sock = socket.create_connection((self.host, self.port), self.timeout)
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/socket.py", line 547, in create_connection
for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known

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Originally by: Yinmatook

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I am starting to play with this on a Mac using python 2.6.6, and the apitest.py is aborting with the following:

EXAMPLE 7: TRANSACTION DATA
(and doing more nifty stuff with rowsets)

[3] /char/WalletJournal.xml.aspx: not cached, fetching from server...
[3] /char/WalletJournal.xml.aspx: cached (632 seconds)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./apitest.py", line 385, in <module>
entriesByRefType = journal.entries.GroupedBy("refTypeID")
AttributeError: 'Element' object has no attribute 'entries'

Is this expected, is this because I'm on a mac? I'm just starting to figure out this API stuff, want to build some apps for my corp and I'm sort of lost (I hope that's normal when we start doing this stuff).

Thanks,
Yin

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Originally by: Rakio Oramara

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I've run into problems with apitest.py. Wallet accesses bomb out with:

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EXAMPLE 2: GETTING WALLET BALANCE OF ALL YOUR CHARACTERS

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "apitest.py", line 88, in <module>
wallet = auth.char.AccountBalance(characterID=character.characterID)
File "G:\Software\Spiele\MMO\Eve Online\Dev_Stuff\eveapi.py", line 252, in __call__
return self._root(self._path, **kw)
File "G:\Software\Spiele\MMO\Eve Online\Dev_Stuff\eveapi.py", line 342, in __call__
return _ParseXML(response, True, store and (lambda obj: cache.store(self._host, path, kw, response, obj)))
File "G:\Software\Spiele\MMO\Eve Online\Dev_Stuff\eveapi.py", line 188, in _ParseXML
raise Error(error.code, error.data)
eveapi.Error: Current security level not high enough
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If I comment out the code for example 2, the rest of the examples run okay and give correct data until the next wallet access in example 7 ( journal = me.WalletJournal() ), which quits with the same error as above. Tested with my two accounts, both show identical behavior. Any idea why this happens?


BTW, do you have a printable list of your missing items? This would make it much easier to help you with your holy mission.

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Quote:

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apiAssets = eveapi.EVEAPIConnection().auth(keyID=myKey, vCode=myCode).corp.AssetList(characterID=myCharID)

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Originally by: diabeteman

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Edited by: diabeteman on 02/09/2011 00:18:03
EDIT: You read my mind!!! You fixed it as I was posting this

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Originally by: diabeteman

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I've been using evapi for over 2 years now and I must say : YOU ROCK!

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Originally by: Entity

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Originally by: diabeteman

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Edited by: diabeteman on 02/09/2011 00:18:03
EDIT: You read my mind!!! You fixed it as I was posting this

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Hehe. I keep having to clean up after CCP's bugs. Every patch seems to get a new dev assigned to do api stuff, who ends up making the same mistakes as his predecessor(s).

Current CCP fails (HI CCP, ARE YOU READING THIS? :):
- There is a space in the columns= attribute in rowsets for MemberSecurity page.
- rowsets were not designed for conditional columns like rawQuantity in AssetList. More of those in the same table would render it extremely hard to parse without special-casing. Right now eveapi is context-free and I would like to keep it that way.

Originally by: diabeteman

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I've been using evapi for over 2 years now and I must say : YOU ROCK!

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Why thank you, Sir!

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