From 800dfb7c03f7d2fd155078dc3863b32960e14e0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jgstew <james@jgstew.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 13:17:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] add example to use restapi using cmd args

---
 examples/rest_cmd_args.py                 | 58 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 examples/session_relevance_from_string.py |  3 +-
 2 files changed, 60 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 examples/rest_cmd_args.py

diff --git a/examples/rest_cmd_args.py b/examples/rest_cmd_args.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ec73626
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/rest_cmd_args.py
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+"""
+Example session relevance results from a string
+
+requires `besapi`, install with command `pip install besapi`
+
+Example Usage:
+python rest_cmd_args.py -r https://localhost:52311/api -u API_USER -p API_PASSWORD
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import json
+
+import besapi
+
+
+def main():
+    """Execution starts here"""
+    print("main()")
+
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        description="Provde command line arguments for REST URL, username, and password"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("-r", "--rest-url", help="Specify the REST URL", required=True)
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "-besserver", "--besserver", help="Specify the BES URL", required=False
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("-u", "--user", help="Specify the username", required=True)
+    parser.add_argument("-p", "--password", help="Specify the password", required=True)
+    # allow unknown args to be parsed instead of throwing an error:
+    args, _unknown = parser.parse_known_args()
+
+    rest_url = args.rest_url
+
+    if rest_url.endswith("/api"):
+        rest_url = rest_url.replace("/api", "")
+
+    try:
+        bes_conn = besapi.besapi.BESConnection(args.user, args.password, rest_url)
+        bes_conn.login()
+    except (ConnectionRefusedError, besapi.besapi.requests.exceptions.ConnectionError):
+        # print(args.besserver)
+        bes_conn = besapi.besapi.BESConnection(args.user, args.password, args.besserver)
+
+    session_relevance = 'unique values of (it as trimmed string) of (preceding text of last " (" of it | it) of operating systems of bes computers'
+
+    data = {"output": "json", "relevance": session_relevance}
+
+    result = bes_conn.post(bes_conn.url("query"), data)
+
+    json_result = json.loads(str(result))
+
+    json_string = json.dumps(json_result, indent=2)
+
+    print(json_string)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/examples/session_relevance_from_string.py b/examples/session_relevance_from_string.py
index 1421e78..893326e 100644
--- a/examples/session_relevance_from_string.py
+++ b/examples/session_relevance_from_string.py
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 """
-Example session relevance results from a file
+Example session relevance results from a string
 
 requires `besapi`, install with command `pip install besapi`
 """
+
 import json
 
 import besapi