Python client for Webfaction API

webf.py

import re
import sys
import xmlrpclib
import logging
import os.path

from configobj import ConfigObj


API_URL = 'https://api.webfaction.com/'
CONF = os.path.expanduser('~/.webfrc')

class WebFactionXmlRpc(object):

    '''WebFaction XML-RPC server proxy class'''

    def __init__(self, login=True):
        self.log = logging.getLogger('webf')
        self.log.addHandler(logging.StreamHandler())
        self.session_id = None
        self.server = None
        if login:
            self.login()

    def get_config(self):
        '''Get configuration file from user's directory'''
        if not os.path.exists(CONF):
            self.log.error("Set your username/password in %s" % CONF)
            self.log.error("The format is:")
            self.log.error("  username=<username>")
            self.log.error("  password=<password>")
            sys.exit(1)
        config = ConfigObj(CONF)
        username = config['username']
        password = config['password']
        return (username, password)

    def login(self):
        '''Login to WebFaction and get a session_id'''
        try:
            http_proxy = os.environ['http_proxy']
        except KeyError:
            http_proxy = None
        username, password = self.get_config()
        self.server = xmlrpclib.Server(API_URL, transport=http_proxy)
        self.session_id, account = self.server.login(username, password)
        self.log.debug("self.session_id %s account %s" % (self.session_id,
            account))

    def _show(self, result, id_field='name', pattern=None):
        for item in result:
            if pattern and pattern != 'None':
                to_match = item[id_field] + ' ' + item.get('description', '')
                if not re.search(pattern, to_match):
                    continue
            for key, value in item.items():
                if key == id_field:
                    print value
                else:
                    print "\t", "%s: " % key, value

    def _call(self, command, *args):
        '''Generic command'''
        func = getattr(self.server, command)
        try:
            result = func(self.session_id, *args)
            self.log.debug(result)
        except xmlrpclib.Fault, errmsg:
            self.log.error(errmsg)
            return 1

        return result

def main():
    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
        print 'Need command'
        sys.exit(1)
    command = sys.argv[1]
    args = sys.argv[2:]
    new_args = []
    for argument in args:
        if argument in ('true', 'false'):
            argument = True if argument == 'true' else False
            new_args.append(argument)
            continue

        if ':' in argument:
            mapping_list = argument.split(',')
            argument = [(key, val) for key, val in [mapping.split(':') for mapping in mapping_list]]
            new_args += argument
            continue

        if ',' in argument:
            argument = argument.split(',')
            new_args.append(argument)
            continue

        new_args.append(argument)

    print command, new_args
    wf = WebFactionXmlRpc()
    result = wf._call(command, *new_args)
    wf._show(result)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()