Write Values to an ARDI Asset

Description

This script updates the value of a property in ARDI itself.

This is useful if you have last modified date or last maintained by information inside ARDI properties.

You can also interrogate information from ARDI in the same script, so if you were interested in storing the next time maintenance is required, you could query the asset for it's maintenance frequency first.

In the example below, two properties are being set. The date of the last inspection, and the username of the person who completed it.

Full Script

import requests
from datetime import datetime
import os
import sys
import traceback
import warnings
 
#Set default details
server="servername/s/sitename"
username="username"
password="password"
datepropertyid=[ID of the date property in ARDI]]
userpropertyid=[[ID of the user property in ARDI]]
 
asset = "Unknown Asset"
checklist = "Unknown Checklist"
user = "Unknown User"
assetid = "1"
tm = datetime.now().strftime("%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S")
 
#Get submission details from environment variables
try:
    asset = os.environ["assetname"]
except:
    print "No Asset Provided"
    sys.exit(0)
 
try:
    assetid = os.environ["assetid"]
except:
    print "No Asset ID Provided"
    sys.exit(0)
 
try:
    checklist = os.environ["checklist"]
except:
    print "No Checklist Provided"
    sys.exit(0)
 
try:
    user = os.environ["user"]
except:
    print "No User Provided"
    sys.exit(0)
 
def Sub(st,ass,chk,usr,dt):
    return st.replace("{checklist}",chk).replace("{asset}",ass).replace("{user}",usr).replace("{date}",dt)
 
#Get auth key from ARDI server....
url = "http://" + server + "/api/auth?username=" + username + "&password=" + password
resp = requests.get(url)
 
data = resp.content
 
#Extract the auth-key from the response (quick and dirty - real solutions might do more exception handling and error checking here...
 
ind = data.find("<authcode>")
if ind > 0:
    indx = data.find("</authcode>")
    totaloffset = ind + 10
    authcode = data[totaloffset:indx]
 
    #Submit date
    url = "http://" + server + "/api/asset/property"
    payload = [('id',assetid),('property',datepropertyid),('node','text'),('value',tm),('auth',authcode)]
    resp = requests.post(url,data=payload)
 
    #Submit username
    payload = [('id',assetid),('property',userpropertyid),('node','text'),('value',user),('auth',authcode)]
    requests.post(url,data=payload)
 
#If everything worked out, send the word 'OK'.
print 'OK'

Write Values to an ARDI Asset