API Wrapper and Django app for Exact Online
- transparently handles re-authentication. Exact's OAuth2 tokens are valid for 10 minutes
- handles pagination.
filter()returns a generator - uses connection keep-alive (thanks to the requests library) resulting in huge performance gain. Exact can take over 5 seconds to establish a HTTPS/TLS connection, subsequent requests are faster)
Setup
install && migrate
settings.py:
EXACT_ONLINE_API_URL = "https://start.exactonline.nl/api"
EXACT_ONLINE_CLIENT_ID = "xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"
EXACT_ONLINE_CLIENT_SECRET = "asdf"
EXACT_ONLINE_REDIRECT_URI = "http://localhost:8000/exact/authenticate"
EXACT_ONLINE_DIVISION = 1234567urls.py:
url(r'^exact/', include(('exact.urls', 'exact'), namespace='exact'))Usage
go to http://localhost:8000/exact/authenticate to start the OAuth2 dance.
generic usage: first param is the resource. see Exact Online for available resources
from exact.api import Exact
e = Exact()
# first param is the resource.
# see https://start.exactonline.nl/docs/HlpRestAPIResources.aspx
# filter returns a generator and handles pagination for you
for acc in e.filter("crm/Accounts", filter_string="substringof('GmbH', Name) eq true"):
pass
# can raise e.DoesNotExist and e.MultipleObjectsReturned
e.get(resource, filter_string=None, select=None):
e.create(resource, data)
e.update(resource, guid, data)
e.delete(resource, guid)see odata.org for info on how to use filter_string
helpers:
from exact.api import Exact
e = Exact()
e.accounts.get(code="1234")
e.glaccounts.get(code="1234")
e.costcenters.get(code="12345")webhooks
... are easily created/deleted through /admin/exact/webhook
