improve examples in 00. see elabftw/elabftw#4844

Author: NicolasCARPi

examples/00.py

@@ -1,27 +1,43 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 import time
+import json
 import elabapi_python
 from elabapi_python.rest import ApiException
 
 # replace with your api key
 my_api_key = 'apiKey4Test'
 
-# Config
+# START CONFIG
 configuration = elabapi_python.Configuration()
 configuration.api_key['api_key'] = my_api_key
 configuration.api_key_prefix['api_key'] = 'Authorization'
 configuration.host = 'https://elab.local:3148/api/v2'
-configuration.debug = True
+configuration.debug = False
 configuration.verify_ssl = False
 
 # create an instance of the API class
 api_client = elabapi_python.ApiClient(configuration)
 # fix issue with Authorization header not being properly set by the generated lib
 api_client.set_default_header(header_name='Authorization', header_value=my_api_key)
+# END CONFIG
 
 # create an instance of Items
 items = elabapi_python.ItemsApi(api_client)
+
 # display items with default settings
-print(items.read_items())
-# display 50 items with a category id of 8
-print(len(items.read_items(limit=50, cat=8)))
+itemsList = items.read_items()
+print(type(itemsList)) # <-- python list
+print(itemsList)
+
+# fetch 50 items with a category id of 8
+itemsList = items.read_items(limit=50, cat=8)
+print(f'Number of results: {len(itemsList)}')
+
+# if you want raw json, use _preload_content=False
+# get the response object directly
+response = items.read_items(_preload_content=False)
+print(response.data.decode('utf-8')) # <-- JSON string
+# transform it into python object from JSON
+data = response.json()
+# and pretty print the firt three elements in JSON
+print(json.dumps(data[0:3], indent=2))