0.0.8 - add simple user auth

Author: robswc

.gitignore

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ __pycache__/
 
 # Distribution / packaging
 .keys
+.moretests
 .Python
 build/
 develop-eggs/

setup.cfg

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [metadata]
 name = quickbase-json-api-client
-version = 0.0.7
+version = 0.0.8
 author = Robert Carroll
 author_email = [email protected]
 description = Python wrapper for quickbase JSON API.

src/quickbase_json/client.py

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+from xml.etree import ElementTree
+
 import requests
 
 from quickbase_json.qb_response import QBResponse
@@ -125,6 +127,25 @@ def get_fields(self, table_id: str, **kwargs):
         params = {'tableId': f'{table_id}'}
         return requests.get('https://api.quickbase.com/v1/fields', params=params, headers=headers).json()
 
+    """
+    User Authentication
+    """
+    def auth_user(self, username, pw, hours):
+        url = f'https://{self.realm}.quickbase.com/db/main?a=API_Authenticate&username={username}&password={pw}&hours={hours}'
+        r = requests.post(url=url)
+
+        tree = ElementTree.fromstring(r.content)
+
+        xml_dict = {}
+        for child in tree:
+            xml_dict.update({child.tag: child.text})
+
+        error_code = int(xml_dict.get('errcode'))
+        if error_code == 0:
+            return xml_dict.get('ticket')
+        else:
+            raise ValueError(f'{xml_dict.get("errcode")}: {xml_dict.get("errtext")}')
+
     """
     Misc.
     """