This is a (relatively low-level) Python(3) API to the MarkLogic REST Management API. It may grow to support the Client API as well, over time, and it will certainly grow higher-level APIs.

The API aims to provide complete coverage of what's in the MarkLogic REST API in idiomatic Python.

Several aspects of the API design are still in flux. Some inconsistencies are present. If you write scripts based on it, you'll probably have to fix them after each update. Apologies, in advance, and thanks for your feedback.

Some aspects of the current API rely on server features that have not yet been released to the public. In particular, it’s likely that attempts to work with forest properties will not work with the current public releases of MarkLogic server.

The installer has not been widely tested. Feedback welcome.

• Creation and configuration of clusters, groups, databases, forests, servers, hosts, users, roles, permissions, and privileges.
• A sample command-line utility
• Several example scripts
• Some rather crude at the moment API docs.

1. Download and install MarkLogic (http://developer.marklogic.com/products)
2. Install using pip (pip3 install marklogic_python_api) Note that you must be using Python3!
3. Checkout the MarkLogic python package from http://github.com/marklogic/python_api

At this point you should be able to script away.

Pythonistas may find it useful to simply create a virtualenv for the project and run python setup.py install.

The tests run using a default configuration:

{

"hostname": "localhost", "username": "admin", "password": "admin", "protocol": "http", "port": 8000, "management-port": 8002, "root": "manage", "version": "v2", "client-version": "v1"

}

If you want to change any of those defaults, create an mlconfig.json file in the python_api directory. You can omit the properties that you don’t need to change.

This library began as a project by Paul Hoehne, to whom we are indebted.