Python2 Batch Client

 1 #! /usr/bin/python
 2 
 3 ########################################################################
 4 #
 5 #  Example client to submit a batch request to TextServer 
 6 # SERVICENAME service, and wait for the job to be finished.
 7 #
 8 #  Input must be a ZIP file containing one or more text files to analyze
 9 #  Output will be a ZIP file containing results for each input file in
10 # the requested format (XML, json, conll)
11 #
12 ########################################################################
13 
14 # import required libraries
15 import urllib2
16 # You may need to install "poster" python module for these two:
17 from poster.encode import multipart_encode
18 from poster.streaminghttp import register_openers
19 import xml.etree.ElementTree
20 import time
21 
22 # Register the streaming http handlers with urllib2
23 register_openers()
24 
25 # set query elements
26 fname = raw_input('Input ZIP file: ')
27 lang = raw_input('Language: ')
28 out = raw_input('Output format (xml,json,conll,naf): ')
29 user = raw_input('TextServer Username: ')
30 pwd = raw_input('TextServer Password: ')
31 
32 # Encode query in a form-data.
33 # 'headers' contains the necessary Content-Type and Content-Length.
34 # 'datagen' is a generator object that yields the encoded parameters.
35 datagen, headers = multipart_encode({'username' : user,
36                                      'password' : pwd,
37                                      'file' : open(fname,"rb"),
38                                      'language' : lang,
39                                      'output' : out,
40                                      'interactive':'0'
41                                      } )
42 # service URL
43 TextServer_URL = "http://frodo.lsi.upc.edu:8080/TextWS/textservlet/ws"
44 service = "SERVICENAME"
45 
46 # Create the Request object
47 request = urllib2.Request(TextServer_URL + "/processQuery/" + service,
48                           datagen, 
49                           headers)
50 
51 try:
52   # Actually do the request, and get the response
53   resp =  urllib2.urlopen(request).read()
54 
55 except urllib2.HTTPError, e:
56   # handle connection errors
57   print e, "-", e.read()
58   exit()
59 
60 # Server response should include a job tokenID, retrieve it
61 dom = xml.etree.ElementTree.XML(resp)
62 tkid = dom.text 
63 print "Job sumbitted. Token id=",tkid