_news

class appian_locust._news._News(interactor: appian_locust._interactor._Interactor)

Bases: appian_locust._base._Base

_visit_internal(news_name: str, exact_match: bool = True, search_string: str = None) → Tuple

get_all(search_string: str = None, locust_request_label: str = '') → Dict[str, Any]

Retrieves all the available “news” and assgit ociated metadata from “Appian-Tempo-News”

Note: All the retrieved data about news is stored in the private variable self._news

Parameters:

search_string (str, optional) – results will be filtered based on the search string.

Returns (dict): List of news and associated metadata

Examples

>>> self.appian.action.get_all()

get_news(news_name: str, exact_match: bool = True, search_string: str = None) → Dict[str, Any]

Get the information about specific news by name.

Parameters:

• news_name (str) – name of the news entry

• exact_match (bool, optional) – Should news name match exactly or to be partial match. Default : True

• search_string (str, optional) – results will be filtered based on the search string.

Returns: Specific News’s info

Raises: In case news is not found in the system, it throws an “Exception”

Example

If full name of action is known,

>>> self.appian.news.get("news_name")

If only partial name is known,

>>> self.appian.news.get("news_name", exact_match=False)

search(search_string: str = '*') → Dict[str, Any]

visit(news_name: str, exact_match: bool = True, search_string: str = None) → None

This function calls the nav API for the specific news item and its related records if any

Parameters:

• news_name (str) – Name of the news entry to be called

• exact_match (bool, optional) – Should news name match exactly or to be partial match. Default : True

• search_string (str, optional) – results will be filtered based on the search string.

Returns: None

Examples

If full name of news is known,

>>> self.appian.news.visit("news_name")

If only partial name is known,

>>> self.appian.news.visit("news_name", exact_match=False)

visit_news_entry(news_name: str, exact_match: bool = True, search_string: str = None) → Tuple

This function simulates navigating to a single entry in the ui. There are two parts to navigating to a news entry: navigating to the view and getting the news entry’s feed.

Parameters:

• news_name (str) – Name of the news entry to be called

• exact_match (bool, optional) – Should news name match exactly or to be partial match. Default : True

• search_string (str, optional) – results will be filtered based on the search string.

Returns (Tuple): Response codes for the view navigation and getting the feed entry

Examples

If full name of news is known,

>>> self.appian.news.visit("news_name")

If only partial name is known,

>>> self.appian.news.visit("news_name", exact_match=False)