start cli script

Author: jcarbaugh

requirements.txt

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+clint==0.2.4

sunlight/__init__.py

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 import sunlight.service
 
 
+def available_services():
+    return {
+        'openstates': openstates,
+        'capitolwords': capitolwords,
+        'congress': congress,
+        'influenceexplorer': influenceexplorer,
+    }
+
+
 def _attempt_to_load_apikey():
     """
     This function (which will be auto-called on import of :mod:`sunlight`),

sunlight/cli.py

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+import json
+import sys
+
+from clint import args
+import sunlight
+
+def main():
+
+	services = sunlight.available_services()
+	service = services.get(args.get(0), None)
+
+	if service is not None:
+
+		available_methods = [m for m in dir(service) if not m.startswith('_') and m != 'get']
+
+		if args.get(1) in available_methods:
+			
+			params = {g[0][2:]: g[1].get(0) for g in args.grouped.items()[1:] if g[0].startswith('--')}
+			resp = getattr(service, args.get(1))(**params)
+			sys.stdout.write(json.dumps(resp, indent=2) + '\n')
+
+		else:
+			help(methods=available_methods) # missing or invalid method parameter
+
+	else:
+		help(services=services) # missing or invalid service parameter
+
+def help(services=None, methods=None):
+	sys.stderr.write("Usage: sunlight <service> <method> [<args>, ...]\n")
+
+	if services:
+		sys.stderr.write("Available services:\n")
+		for s in services:
+			sys.stderr.write("    %s\n" % s)
+
+	if methods:
+		sys.stderr.write("Available methods:\n")
+		for m in methods:
+			sys.stderr.write("    %s\n" % m)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+	main()