ODK Form Post

ODK API Sample requests

import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPDigestAuth
#this is a series of scripts to help in testing ODK Aggregate requests
print "Beggining of processing"
#we begin testing to see if we can get odk forms
r = requests.get('https://promisetracker.appspot.com/formList')
#lets perfom and ODK authentication
#url = 'http://localhost:8080/ODKAggregate/formUpload'
url = 'https://promisetracker.appspot.com/formUpload'
files = {'form_def_file': open('/Users/jude/Downloads/Birds.xml', 'rb')}
r = requests.post(url, files=files,auth=('Jude','mwenda'))
req = requests.Request('POST',url,files=files)
prepared = req.prepare()

def pretty_print_POST(req):
    """
    At this point it is completely built and ready
    to be fired; it is "prepared".

    However pay attention at the formatting used in
    this function because it is programmed to be pretty
    printed and may differ from the actual request.
    """
    print('{}\n{}\n{}\n\n{}'.format(
        '-----------START-----------',
        req.method + ' ' + req.url,
        '\n'.join('{}: {}'.format(k, v) for k, v in req.headers.items()),
        req.body,
    ))

pretty_print_POST(prepared)

import pdb;pdb.set_trace()
print r.status_code