Using the API to create a new variable

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Sun Mar 21, 2021 2:09 pm
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Using the API to create a new variable

I've recently starting using WeatherCat to poll my weather station. Since WeatherCat has a CGI output call, it's pretty easy for it to make WeatherCat call out to a tiny PHP script that parses out the variables and updates Indigo variables using the Indigo RESTful API.

Except that I don't know the API call to create a variable. I only know how to read, and update an existing variable's value.

Can anyone point me to the docs on this, or give me an example?

Thanks,

Dave

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Re: Using the API to create a new variable

It isn't possible (currently) from the RESTful API to create a new variable. You can do it from an Indigo python script (which has to be executed by Indigo or the Indigo Plugin Host process) or by a plugin via:

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newVar = indigo.variable.create("someVarName", "default value")
indigo.variable.updateValue(newVar, "new value 1")
indigo.variable.updateValue(newVar, "new value 2")
indigo.variable.updateValue(newVar, "new value 3")

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Re: Using the API to create a new variable

Bummer, but thanks for the Python code. With it, I think I have a work-around.

Dave

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Re: Using the API to create a new variable

You can have a fixed variable eg httpupdate that you update with restful.
Then that triggers your python script “any change of httpupdate variable”.
That python script reads the httpupdate variable and creates the new variable with the contents of the httpupdate variable.
That should do it.
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Re: Using the API to create a new variable

kw123 wrote:
You can have a fixed variable eg httpupdate that you update with restful.
Then that triggers your python script “any change of httpupdate variable”.
That python script reads the httpupdate variable and creates the new variable with the contents of the httpupdate variable.
That should do it.


Clever solution. You could even do all of your updates/creations through one variable update, just update it with a JSON payload - maybe something like this:

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[
   {"var_name_1": "var 1 value"},
   {"var_name_2": "var 2 value"}
]


Then a script that parses the json, creates the variable if necessary or update it if it already exists.

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Thu Mar 25, 2021 7:59 am
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Re: Using the API to create a new variable

Thanks to both of you on this one - that's exactly what I had planned. A little hackey, but worked like a champ. The only thing that made me move on from this was the long list of updates in log window. Once a min (I'm reading in WeatherCat live weather data) was too much.

So I've moved onto a Python based solution, and will post when it's ready.

Dave

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