python-fmrest

python-fmrest is a wrapper around the FileMaker Data API.

No need to worry about manually requesting access tokens, setting the right http headers, parsing responses, ...

Quick example:

>>> fms = fmrest.Server('https://your-server.com',
                        user='admin',
                        password='admin',
                        database='Contacts',
                        layout='Contacts',
                        api_version='v1')
>>> fms.login()
>>> record = fms.get_record(1)
>>> record.name
John Doe

Supported Features

All API paths can be served:

• auth
• record
• find
• global
• script

Access to meta routes is also supported.

Sponsor

python-fmrest development is supported by allgood.systems. Monitor your web sites and get notifications when your scheduled FileMaker scripts or system scripts stop running.

Feel free to contribute!

If you would like to contribute, you can help with the code, try it out and report 🐞🐞, propose new features, write tests, add examples and documentation.

There's always room for improvement!

Questions/problems? Open a new issue. You can also contact me directly at dh@davidhamann.de.

Install

You need Python 3.6 or newer and FileMaker Server/Cloud 17 or newer.

You can install the library like this (preferably in a virtualenv):

pip install python-fmrest

Or the latest master:

pip install https://github.com/davidhamann/python-fmrest/archive/master.zip

Usage Examples

Examples can be found in the examples directory. Can't figure something out or feel an example is missing? Please file an issue.

Local development / running tests

Make sure to have requirements-dev.txt installed:

pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Running pytest will run all tests. To run specific tests, specify the path:

pytest tests/unit

For running tests/integration you will need to have a real FileMaker Server and a test database.

For static type checking, please use mypy:

mypy fmrest

To have all tests plus static type checks run every time before a commit, please install the git hook:

cd hooks
chmod +x install.sh pre-commit.sh run-tests.sh
./install.sh

Bundling with PyInstaller

If you are building an application that should be bundled with PyInstaller, please add a hook file to your project to indicate to PyInstaller to copy python-fmrests metadata.

pyinstaller-hooks/hook-fmrest.py

from PyInstaller.utils.hooks import copy_metadata
datas = copy_metadata('python-fmrest')

Then add the path to the hooks directory to the Analysis section of your .spec file (in case you haven't done so for other hooks yet). For example: hookspath=['./pyinstaller-hooks'].

TO DO

Some bits and pieces are not implemented yet.

Examples of what I can think of:

• OAuth support
• Handling of reserved field names (currently, record_id, modification_id, is_dirty clash with used properties and you will not be able to read your own fields with the same name)
• Needs more test coverage, e.g. for get_records(), find(), edit_record()
• Some more usage examples on how to create, edit, delete, set globals, etc. Tell me where you have issues by opening an issue.
• cli support would be great at some point in the future :-)