playlyfe

This is the official OAuth 2.0 Python client SDK for the Playlyfe API


Keywords
REST, Playlyfe, API, SDK, Gamification
Install
pip install playlyfe==0.0.0

Documentation

Playlyfe Python SDK

Playlyfe Python SDK PyPI version

This is the official OAuth 2.0 Python client SDK for the Playlyfe API. It supports the client_credentials and authorization code OAuth 2.0 flows. For a complete API Reference checkout Playlyfe Developers for more information.

Note: Breaking Changes this is the new version of the sdk which uses the Playlyfe api v2 by default if you still want to use the v1 api you can do that so by passing a version param with 'v1'

The Playlyfe class allows you to make rest api calls like GET, POST, .. etc ex:

pl = Playlyfe(
    version = 'v1',
    client_id = "Your client id",
    client_secret = "Your client secret",
    type = 'client'
)
#For v1 api
# To get infomation of the player johny
pl = Playlyfe(
    version = 'v1',
    client_id = "Your client id",
    client_secret = "Your client secret",
    type = 'client'
  )
player = pl.get(
  route =  '/player',
  query = { 'player_id': 'johny' }
)
print player['id']
print player['scores']

# To get all available processes with query
processes = pl.get(route =  '/processes', query = { player_id: 'johny' })
print processes
# To start a process
process =  pl.post(
  route =  "/definitions/processes/collect",
  query = { 'player_id': 'johny' },
  body = { 'name': "My First Process" }
)

#To play a process
pl.post(
  route =  "/processes/%s/play" %process_id,
  query = { 'player_id': 'johny' },
  body = { 'trigger': "#{@trigger}" }
)
#For v2 api
```python
# To get infomation of the player johny
pl = Playlyfe(
    client_id = "Your client id",
    client_secret = "Your client secret",
    type = 'client'
  )
player = pl.get(
  route =  '/runtime/player',
  query = { 'player_id': 'johny' }
)
print player['id']
print player['scores']

Requires

Python 2.7.6

Install

pip install playlyfe

or if you are using django or flask Just add it to your requirements.txt file

playlyfe==0.4.0

and do a pip install -r requirements.txt

Using

Create a client

If you haven't created a client for your game yet just head over to Playlyfe and login into your account, and go to the game settings and click on client.

1. Client Credentials Flow

In the client page select Yes for both the first and second questions client

A typical flask app using client credentials code flow with a single route would look something like this

@app.route("/client")
def client():
  pl = Playlyfe(
    client_id = "Your client id",
    client_secret = "Your client secret",
    type = 'client'
  )
  players = pl.get(route = '/admin/players')
  html = "<ul>"
  for player in players['data']:
    html += "<li>" + str(player['alias']) + "</li>"
  html+= "</ul>"
  return html

2. Authorization Code Flow

In the client page select yes for the first question and no for the second auth

In this flow you will have a controller which will get the authorization code and using this the sdk can get the access token. You need a view which will allow your user to login using the playlyfe platform. And then playlyfe server with make a get request with the code to your redirect uri. And you should find the code in the query params or the url and exchange the code with the Playlyfe SDK.

exchange_code(code)

Now you should be able to access the Playlyfe api across all your controllers.

@app.route("/login")
def login():
  global pl
  pl = Playlyfe(
    client_id = "YmE1MDQzMmUtMmU4MC00YWU4LWEyZGMtODJiMDQ3NGY2NDNh",
    client_secret = "ZTczNTM3N2UtMmE3MS00ZDdkLWI4NzctZjM3ZDFjZGI5ZGQ4YjM0Y2ViNTAtNTg1My0xMWU0LWE4MDEtZjkwOTJkZGEwOWUz",
    type = 'code',
    redirect_uri = 'http://127.0.0.1:5000/code'
  )
  if 'username' in session:
    return redirect(url_for('home'))
  else:
    url = pl.get_login_url()
    return """
      <h2> Please Login to your Playlyfe Account </h1>
      <h2><a href="%s">Login</a></h2>
    """ %url

@app.route("/code")
def code():
  global pl
  params = request.args.items()
  if params[0][1] != None:
    pl.exchange_code(params[0][1])
    session['username'] = "user1"
    return redirect(url_for('home'))
  else:
    return redirect(url_for('login'))
  return ""

@app.route("/home")
def home():
  global pl
  if 'username' in session:
    players = pl.get(route = '/admin/players')
    html = "<ul>"
    for player in players['data']:
      html += "<li>" + str(player['alias']) + "</li>"
    html+= "</ul>"
    html+= "<a href=\"/logout\"> Sign out</a>"
    return html
  else:
    return 'You are not logged in'

@app.route("/logout")
def logout():
  session.pop('username', None)
  return redirect(url_for('login'))

3. Custom Login Flow using JWT(JSON Web Token)

In the client page select no for the first question and yes for the second jwt

token = Playlyfe.createJWT(
    client_id = 'your client_id', 
    client_secret = 'your client_secret', 
    player_id = 'johny', // The player id associated with your user
    scopes = ['player.runtime.read', 'player.runtime.write'], // The scopes the player has access to
    expires = 3600; // 1 hour
})

This is used to create jwt token which can be created when your user is authenticated. This token can then be sent to the frontend and or stored in your session. With this token the user can directly send requests to the Playlyfe API as the player.

Client Scopes

Client

Your client has certain access control restrictions. There are 3 kind of resources in the Playlyfe REST API they are,

1./admin -> routes for you to perform admin actions like making a player join a team

2./design -> routes for you to make design changes programmatically

3./runtime -> routes which the users will generally use like getting a player profile, playing an action

The resources accessible to this client can be configured to have a read permission that means only GET requests will work.

The resources accessible to this client can be configured to have a write permission that means only POST, PATCH, PUT, DELETE requests will work.

The version restriction is only for the design resource and can be used to restrict the client from accessing any version of the game design other than the one specified. By default it allows all.

If access to a route is not allowed and then you make a request to that route then you will get an error like this,

{
  "error": "access_denied",
  "error_description": "You are not allowed to access this api route"
}

Documentation

You can initiate a client by giving the client_id and client_secret params

Playlyfe(
    client_id = 'Your client id'
    client_secret = 'Your client Secret'
    type = 'client' or 'code'
    redirect_uri = 'The url to redirect to' #only for auth code flow
    store = lambda token: redis.store(token) # The lambda which will persist the access token to a database. You have to persist the token to a database if you want the access token to remain the same in every request
    load = lambda: return redis.get(token) # The lambda which will load the access token. This is called internally by the sdk on every request so the 
    #the access token can be persisted between requests
)

In development the sdk caches the access token in memory so you don't need to provide the store and load lambdas. But in production it is highly recommended to persist the token to a database. It is very simple and easy to do it with redis. You can see the test cases for more examples. You can either use lambdas or methods for the store and load functions

    import redis
    from playlyfe import Playlyfe, PlaylyfeException
    import json

    def my_store(access_token):
      print 'This will store the token to a databse'
      redis.set('token', json.dumps(token))

    def my_loader():
      print 'The access token will be loaded by the sdk for each request'
      return json.loads(redis.get('token'))

    redis = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)
    Playlyfe(
      client_id = "Your client id",
      client_secret = "Your client secret",
      type = 'client',
      store = lambda token: redis.set('token', json.dumps(token)),
      load = lambda: return json.loads(redis.get('token'))
    )
    # OR
    Playlyfe(
      client_id = "Your client id",
      client_secret = "Your client secret",
      type = 'client',
      store = my_store,
      load = my_loader
    )

API

api(
    method = 'GET' # The request method can be GET/POST/PUT/PATCH/DELETE
    route =  '' # The api route to get data from
    query = {} # The query params that you want to send to the route
    raw = False # Whether you want the response to be in raw string form or json
)

Get

get(
    route =  '' # The api route to get data from
    query = {} # The query params that you want to send to the route
    raw = False # Whether you want the response to be in raw string form or json
)

Post

post(
    route =  '' # The api route to post data to
    query = {} # The query params that you want to send to the route
    body = {} # The data you want to post to the api this will be automagically converted to json
)

Patch

patch(
    route =  '' # The api route to patch data
    query = {} # The query params that you want to send to the route
    body = {} # The data you want to update in the api this will be automagically converted to json
)

Put

put(
    route =  '' # The api route to put data
    query = {} # The query params that you want to send to the route
    body = {} # The data you want to update in the api this will be automagically converted to json
)

Delete

delete(
    route =  '' # The api route to delete the component
    query = {} # The query params that you want to send to the route
)

Get Login Url

get_login_url()
#This will return the url to which the user needs to be redirected for the user to login. You can use this directly in your views.

Exchange Code

exchange_code(code)
#This is used in the auth code flow so that the sdk can get the access token.
#Before any request to the playlyfe api is made this has to be called atleast once. 
#This should be called in the the route/controller which you specified in your redirect_uri

Errors
A PlaylyfeException is thrown whenever an error occurs in each call.The Error contains a name and message field which can be used to determine the type of error that occurred.

License

Playlyfe Python SDK v0.4.0
http://dev.playlyfe.com/
Copyright(c) 2013-2014, Playlyfe IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd, support@playlyfe.com

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