RPC client connects to standalone Delta Chat RPC server deltachat-rpc-server
and provides asynchronous interface to it.
To use Delta Chat RPC client, first build a deltachat-rpc-server
with cargo build -p deltachat-rpc-server
or download a prebuilt release.
Install it anywhere in your PATH
.
Create a virtual environment if you don't have one already and activate it.
$ python -m venv env
$ . env/bin/activate
Install deltachat-rpc-client
from source:
$ cd deltachat-rpc-client
$ pip install .
- Build
deltachat-rpc-server
withcargo build -p deltachat-rpc-server
. - Install tox
pip install -U tox
- Run
CHATMAIL_DOMAIN=nine.testrun.org PATH="../target/debug:$PATH" tox
.
Additional arguments to tox
are passed to pytest, e.g. tox -- -s
does not capture test output.
Setup a development environment:
$ tox --devenv env
$ . env/bin/activate
$ python
>>> from deltachat_rpc_client import *
>>> rpc = Rpc()
>>> rpc.start()
>>> dc = DeltaChat(rpc)
>>> system_info = dc.get_system_info()
>>> system_info["level"]
'awesome'
>>> rpc.close()