Hi On 7 November 2010 07:37, Jason Pickering <jason.p.picker...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi . I was wondering if anyone has done any scripting to automate > certain tasks (namely the datamart) with DHIS2. I came across this > utility for Firefox which was extremely easy to use and did pretty > much what I wanted. > > http://www.iopus.com/imacros/firefox/?ref=fxtab
I think selenium probably has the same or more functionality - more particulalrly for testing, but I think could also be used for general purpose brosewr automation. http://seleniumhq.org/. But have to agree that automating the browser is probably the second best solution where there is no other api. There are quite a few services we need to define clean web api's for. I have worked around basic auth using python scripts and maintaining state with cookies like the browser does, but it's a bit awkward and I'm not sure I'd recommend it. I'll try and rummage back to find that (thrown away?) code. Cheers Bob > > Usually, I would do this sort of thing through a shell script, but I > have not really figured out how to login to DHIS2 through a command > line tool like wget. Basic HTTP authentication does not seem to be > supported, but I thought I had seen a commit about this some time ago. > > Basically, I think it would be very useful to be able to > programatically call URLs, for instance to regenerate the datamart and > report tables on a period and scheduled basis. This iMacro extension > is free, but only the paid version can be used through the command > line or Windows Task Scheduler. Any one else have some ideas how this > could be done? > > Regards, > Jason > > > -- > Jason P. Pickering > email: jason.p.picker...@gmail.com > tel:+260968395190 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs Post to : dhis2-devs@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~dhis2-devs More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
