Metadata-Version: 1.0
Name: PyCap
Version: 0.8
Summary: PyCap: Python interface to REDCap
Home-page: http://sburns.github.com/PyCap
Author: Scott Burns
Author-email: scott.s.burns@gmail.com
License: BSD (3-clause)
Download-URL: http://sburns.github.com/PyCap
Description: .. image:: https://secure.travis-ci.org/sburns/PyCap.png?branch=master
        
        Intro
        =====
        
        PyCap is a python module exposing the REDCap API through some helpful abstractions. Information about the REDCap project can be found at http://project-redcap.org/.
        
        Available under the BSD (3-clause) license.
        
        Features
        --------
        
        Currently, these API calls are available:
        
        -   Export Records
        -   Export Metadata
        -   Import Records
        -   Export File
        -   Import File
        -   Delete File
        -   Export Users
        
        Events and Arms are automatically exported for longitudinal projects (see below).
        
        
        Requirements
        ------------
        
        -   requests (>= 1.0.0)
        
            ``$ easy_install requests``
        
        Usage
        -----
        ::
        
            >>> import redcap
            # Init the project with the api url and your specific api key
            >>> project = redcap.Project(api_url, api_key)
        
            # Export all data
            >>> all_data = project.export_records()
        
            # import data
            >>> data = [{'subjid': i, 'age':a} for i, a in zip(range(1,6), range(7, 13))]
            >>> num_processed = project.import_records(data)
        
            # For longitudinal projects, project already contains events, arm numbers
            # and arm names
            >>> print project.events
            ...
            >>> print project.arm_nums
            ...
            >>> print project.arm_names
            ...
        
            # Import files
            >>> fname = 'your_file_to_upload.txt'
            >>> with open(fname, 'r') as fobj:
            ...     project.import_file('1', 'file_field', fname, fobj)
        
            # Export files
            >>> file_contents, headers = project.export_file('1', 'file_field')
            >>> with open('other_file.txt', 'w') as f:
            ...     f.write(file_contents)
        
            # Delete files
            >>> try:
            ...     project.delete_file('1', 'file_field')
            ... except redcap.RedcapError:
            ...     # This throws if an error occured on the server
            ... except ValueError:
            ...     # This throws if you made a bad request, e.g. tried to delete a field
            ...     # that isn't a file
        
        Installation
        ------------
        ::
        
            $ git clone git://github.com/sburns/PyCap.git PyCap
            $ cd PyCap
            $ python setup.py install
        
            OR
        
            $ pip install PyCap
        
        TODO
        ----
        
        -   Clean up some method defaults and prepare for the stable 1.0
        
        
        HISTORY
        -------
        
        0.8.0 (2013-02-14)
        ++++++++++++++++++
        
        * Added rest of API methods: Project.export_users, Project.delete_file. Almost
            all API methods are implemented within ``Project`` in some way, shape or form.
        * Fix file import bug.
        * Now use relaxed JSON decoding because REDCap doesn't always send strict JSON.
        * File export, import and delete methods will raise ``redcap.RedcapError`` when the
            methods don't succeed on the server.
        * Low-level content handling has been cleaned up.
        
        
        0.7.0 (2013-01-18)
        ++++++++++++++++++
        
        * Added Project.export_file and Project.import_file methods for exporting/
          importing files from/to REDCap databases
        * Fixed a dependency issue that would cause new installations to fail
        * Fixed an issue where newline characters in the project's Data
          Dictionary would case Projects to fail instantiation.
        
        0.6.1 (2012-11-16)
        ++++++++++++++++++
        
        * Add ability to alter DataFrame construction with the 'df_kwargs' arg
          in Project.export_records and .export_metadata
        
        
        0.6 (2012-11-06)
        ++++++++++++++++
        
        * Add export_metadata function on redcap.Project class
        * Add 'df' as an option for the format argument on the redcap.Project
            export methods to return a pandas.DataFrame
        
        0.5.2 (2012-10-12)
        ++++++++++++++++++
        
        * Update setup.py for more graceful building
        
        0.5.1 (2012-10-04)
        ++++++++++++++++++
        
        * Fix potential issue when exporting strange characters
        
        0.5 (2012-09-19)
        ++++++++++++++++
        
        * Add initial support for longitudinal databases
        * Add helper attributes on redcap.Project class
        * Improve testing
        * Add Travis-CI testing on github
        
        0.4.2 (2012-03-15)
        ++++++++++++++++++
        
        * 0.4.1 didn't play well with pypi?
        
        0.4.1 (2012-03-15)
        ++++++++++++++++++
        
        * Defend against non-unicode characters in Redcap Project
        
        0.3.4 (2012-01-12)
        ++++++++++++++++++
        
        * New documentation
        
        0.3.3 (2011-11-21)
        ++++++++++++++++++
        
        * Bug fix when exporting all fields
        
        0.3.2 (2011-11-21)
        ++++++++++++++++++
        
        * Works with current version of requests
        * Under-the-hood changes (only json is used for RCRequest)
        * Bug fix in Project.filter
        
        0.3.1 (2011-11-02)
        ++++++++++++++++++
        
        * Bug fix in import_records
        
        
        0.3 (2011-09-27)
        ++++++++++++++++
        
        * Using Kenneth Reitz's request module, greatly simplifying request code.
        
        0.21 (2011-09-14)
        +++++++++++++++++
        
        * First public release on PyPI
        * Version bump
        
        0.1 (2011-09-14)
        +++++++++++++++++
        
        * Basic import, export, metadata
        
Platform: any
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Beta
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Science/Research
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development
Classifier: Topic :: Scientific/Engineering
Classifier: Operating System :: Microsoft :: Windows
Classifier: Operating System :: POSIX
Classifier: Operating System :: Unix
Classifier: Operating System :: MacOS
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7
