This package contains a client library for the Globus Online Transfer API.

For detailed documentation of the Transfer API, see https://transfer.api.globusonline.org

Installation

If you downloaded the source from github, simply run:

python setup.py install

There is also a package on PyPI with the latest stable version; it can be installed with easy_install or pip:

easy_install globusonline-transfer-api-client

Usage

Basic usage:

from globusonline.transfer import api_client

api = api_client.TransferAPIClient(username="myusername",
                                cert_file="/path/to/client/credential",
                                key_file="/path/to/client/credential")
status_code, status_message, data = api.task_list()

See the globusonline/transfer/api_client/examples directory for more complete examples. If you installed from PyPI, this will be somewhere in your Python path:

python -c "from globusonline.transfer import api_client; print api_client.__path__"

One of the best ways to learn the library is to run an interactive interpreter with an instance of the client. The module provides a shortcut for doing this:

python -i -m globusonline.transfer.api_client.main USERNAME -p
>>> status_code, status_message, data = api.task_list()
>>> dir(api) # get a list of all available methods

replace USERNAME with your Globus Online username, and you will be prompted for your password. This form of authentication should not be used in production systems, but is useful for development and testing.

Changlog

0.10.10

• Include CAs in the package; the server_ca_file parameter (and the -C command line arg) is no longer required.
• Alternate delegate_proxy activation implementation using a custom C program called mkproxy instead of M2Crypto. See mkproxy/README.markdown for details. mkproxy is the preferred implementations, so if both the executable and M2Crypto are installed, mkproxy is used.
• Moved examples to package data, so they are included in the PyPI package.

0.10.9

• Add https proxy support, using the HTTPS_PROXY environment variable. This has been tested in 2.6.6 and 2.7, and does not work in 2.6.1 (because the tunnel features was added in the middle of the 2.6.X cycle). Other versions > 2.6.1 may also work, but this has not been tested. Thanks to Brett Viren for this feature!
• If you have both your key and certificate in the same file, you don't have to pass it to both -c and -k when running the examples and interactive client. Just pass one of them, and it will assume the file contains both.
• Added some basic usage docs to examples/delegate_proxy_activate.py
• Fix example.py breakage when printing GC endpoints.
• Import readline in main.py, for more convenient interactive testing.