Entity Search in Python (Code Example)

This is example code in python on how to access the ENS search API. You can download the examples in the attached ZIP file.

query = "QUERY{Paolo Bouquet}METADATA{entityType=person}"

from suds.client import Client

import EnsClientEntity

endpoint = "http://api.okkam.org/okkam-core/WebServices?wsdl"

client = Client(endpoint)

result = client.service.findEntity(query)

for candidate in result:

xml = candidate["XML"].encode('utf-8')

entity = EnsClientEntity.parseString(xml)

print entity.get_oid(),". sim:",candidate["sim"]

#query = "Yosemite National Park"

query = "QUERY{Paolo Bouquet}METADATA{entityType=person}"

#------ ENS ID Search in 10 LOC --------

# you'll need the suds package to use our SOAP service

# see the suds docu if you are behind a proxy server

from suds.client import Client

# the EnsClientEntity class was auto-generated by generateDS.py

# http://www.rexx.com/~dkuhlman/generateDS.html

# this is our main data structure containing the entity description

import EnsClientEntity

# this is the WSDL file of the okkam ENS

endpoint = "http://api.okkam.org/okkam-core/WebServices?wsdl"

# this you'd probably do only once and then re-use the connection

client = Client(endpoint)

# now you send your query to the ENS

result = client.service.findEntity(query)

# result is a list of objects containing

# okkamid, similarity and XML string with the complety entity data

for candidate in result:

# make sure no garbage characters bother us

xml = candidate["XML"].encode('utf-8')

# parse XML data from server into EnsClientEntity

entity = EnsClientEntity.parseString(xml)

# here you see how to access the data

# maybe you want to use DataDumper to inspect the object

print entity.get_oid(),". sim:",candidate["sim"]

Attachments:
ensquery.zip	[ ]	8 Kb	04/03/10 13:56