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Example usage

Example usage of FlowClient to run daily location, modal location and flow queries.

import flowclient

Create an access token

Generate an API access token using FlowAuth.

Create an API connection

Paste the access token from FlowAuth here as TOKEN

conn = flowclient.connect(
    url=os.getenv("FLOWAPI_URL", "http://localhost:9090"),
    token=TOKEN,
    ssl_certificate=os.getenv("SSL_CERTIFICATE_FILE"),
)

Daily location

Specify query parameters

query_spec = flowclient.aggregates.spatial_aggregate_spec(
    locations=flowclient.daily_location_spec(
        date="2016-01-01",
        aggregation_unit="admin3",
        method="last",
        subscriber_subset=None,
    )
)

query_spec
    {'locations': {'aggregation_unit': 'admin3',
               'date': '2016-01-01',
               'event_types': None,
               'geom_table': None,
               'geom_table_join_column': None,
               'hours': None,
               'mapping_table': None,
               'method': 'last',
               'query_kind': 'daily_location',
               'subscriber_subset': None},
 'query_kind': 'spatial_aggregate'}

Set query running

query_id = flowclient.run_query(connection=conn, query_spec=query_spec)
query_id

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Check status of query

flowclient.get_status(connection=conn, query_id=query_id)

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Get query result

df = flowclient.get_result_by_query_id(connection=conn, query_id=query_id)
df.head()
pcod value
0 NPL.2.3.3_1 1804
1 NPL.3.2.5_1 621
2 NPL.5.1.2_1 178
3 NPL.4.1.1_1 296
4 NPL.1.3.3_1 606

Alternative (run query, wait for it to finish, and get result, in one function call):

df = flowclient.get_result(connection=conn, query_spec=query_spec)
df.head()
pcod value
0 NPL.2.3.3_1 1804
1 NPL.3.2.5_1 621
2 NPL.5.1.2_1 178
3 NPL.4.1.1_1 296
4 NPL.1.3.3_1 606

Specify query parameters

Either explicitly from a set of daily locations:

dl1 = flowclient.daily_location_spec(
    date="2016-01-01",
    aggregation_unit="admin3",
    method="last",
    subscriber_subset=None,
)
dl2 = flowclient.daily_location_spec(
    date="2016-01-02",
    aggregation_unit="admin3",
    method="last",
    subscriber_subset=None,
)
ml = flowclient.modal_location_spec(locations=[dl1, dl2])

ml
    {'locations': [{'aggregation_unit': 'admin3',
                'date': '2016-01-01',
                'event_types': None,
                'geom_table': None,
                'geom_table_join_column': None,
                'hours': None,
                'mapping_table': None,
                'method': 'last',
                'query_kind': 'daily_location',
                'subscriber_subset': None},
               {'aggregation_unit': 'admin3',
                'date': '2016-01-02',
                'event_types': None,
                'geom_table': None,
                'geom_table_join_column': None,
                'hours': None,
                'mapping_table': None,
                'method': 'last',
                'query_kind': 'daily_location',
                'subscriber_subset': None}],
 'query_kind': 'modal_location'}

Or from a date range:

ml = flowclient.modal_location_from_dates_spec(
    start_date="2016-01-01",
    end_date="2016-01-03",
    aggregation_unit="admin3",
    method="last",
    subscriber_subset=None,
)

ml
    {'locations': [{'aggregation_unit': 'admin3',
                'date': '2016-01-01',
                'event_types': None,
                'geom_table': None,
                'geom_table_join_column': None,
                'hours': None,
                'mapping_table': None,
                'method': 'last',
                'query_kind': 'daily_location',
                'subscriber_subset': None},
               {'aggregation_unit': 'admin3',
                'date': '2016-01-02',
                'event_types': None,
                'geom_table': None,
                'geom_table_join_column': None,
                'hours': None,
                'mapping_table': None,
                'method': 'last',
                'query_kind': 'daily_location',
                'subscriber_subset': None}],
 'query_kind': 'modal_location'}

Set query running

query_id = flowclient.run_query(
    connection=conn,
    query_spec=flowclient.aggregates.spatial_aggregate_spec(locations=ml),
)
query_id

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Check status of query

flowclient.get_status(connection=conn, query_id=query_id)

executing

Get query result

df = flowclient.get_result_by_query_id(connection=conn, query_id=query_id)
df.head()
pcod value
0 NPL.2.3.3_1 2075
1 NPL.3.2.5_1 715
2 NPL.5.1.2_1 209
3 NPL.4.1.1_1 345
4 NPL.1.3.3_1 687

Alternative:

df = flowclient.get_result(
    connection=conn,
    query_spec=flowclient.aggregates.spatial_aggregate_spec(locations=ml),
)
df.head()
pcod value
0 NPL.2.3.3_1 2075
1 NPL.3.2.5_1 715
2 NPL.5.1.2_1 209
3 NPL.4.1.1_1 345
4 NPL.1.3.3_1 687

Flow

Specify query parameters

Specify parameters for two location queries:

aggregation_unit = "admin1"
dl_past = flowclient.daily_location_spec(
    date="2016-01-01",
    aggregation_unit=aggregation_unit,
    method="last",
    subscriber_subset=None,
)
dl_present = flowclient.daily_location_spec(
    date="2016-01-07",
    aggregation_unit=aggregation_unit,
    method="last",
    subscriber_subset=None,
)

Specify parameters for flow query:

flow = flowclient.aggregates.flows_spec(
    from_location=dl_past,
    to_location=dl_present,
)
flow
    {'from_location': {'aggregation_unit': 'admin1',
                   'date': '2016-01-01',
                   'event_types': None,
                   'geom_table': None,
                   'geom_table_join_column': None,
                   'hours': None,
                   'mapping_table': None,
                   'method': 'last',
                   'query_kind': 'daily_location',
                   'subscriber_subset': None},
 'join_type': 'inner',
 'query_kind': 'flows',
 'to_location': {'aggregation_unit': 'admin1',
                 'date': '2016-01-07',
                 'event_types': None,
                 'geom_table': None,
                 'geom_table_join_column': None,
                 'hours': None,
                 'mapping_table': None,
                 'method': 'last',
                 'query_kind': 'daily_location',
                 'subscriber_subset': None}}

Set query running

query_id = flowclient.run_query(connection=conn, query_spec=flow)
query_id

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Check status of query

flowclient.get_status(connection=conn, query_id=query_id)

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Get query result

df = flowclient.get_result_by_query_id(connection=conn, query_id=query_id)
df.head()
pcod_from pcod_to value
0 NPL.1_1 NPL.5_1 906
1 NPL.1_1 NPL.4_1 369
2 NPL.1_1 NPL.3_1 397
3 NPL.1_1 NPL.2_1 1060
4 NPL.1_1 NPL.1_1 9876

Counts of Events by Location

df = flowclient.get_result(
    connection=conn,
    query_spec=flowclient.aggregates.location_event_counts_spec(
        start_date="2016-01-01",
        end_date="2016-01-08",
        aggregation_unit="admin3",
        count_interval="hour",
    ),
)
df.head()
pcod date hour value
0 NPL.1.1.1_1 2016-01-01 0 64
1 NPL.1.1.1_1 2016-01-01 1 63
2 NPL.1.1.1_1 2016-01-01 2 67
3 NPL.1.1.1_1 2016-01-01 3 56
4 NPL.1.1.1_1 2016-01-01 4 59