The Request - Module

About

Library Classes and Methods

Examples

>>> import request
>>> req = request.Request()
>>> req.setnode(cdms)
>>> req.setquery("Select Species")
>>> result = req.dorequest()

req contains now an instance of the Request class. The database CDMS is selected (see example in nodes.py) and a query which selects all species avaialable at the CDMS database is formulated. The last command performs the request and returns an instance of results.Result which contains the return raw xml string and the data parsed into dictionaries whose layout has been defined in spectmodel.py