CQ5 tree activation example

tree_activation.py

import httplib2
import urllib
import base64
from html2text import html2text

#----------------------------------------------------------
# INSTANCE-SPECIFIC CONSTANTS // customize before running
CQ_HOSTNAME = 'localhost'
CQ_SERVER = 'http://%s:4502' % CQ_HOSTNAME
USERNAME = 'admin'
PASSWORD = 'admin'

ACTIVATION_PATH = '/content/geometrixx/en'
ACTIVATION_ENDPOINT = '/etc/replication/treeactivation'
ACTIVATION_URL = CQ_SERVER + ACTIVATION_ENDPOINT
#----------------------------------------------------------

def cq_auth_header(username, password):
    "Converts user credentials to CQ-required request header."
    return {'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % (base64.b64encode('%s:%s' % (username, password)))}

def stringify_params(params):
    "Converts a dictionary of query params into a URL-encoded string."
    return '&'.join(['%s=%s' % (urllib.quote(k), urllib.quote(v)) for k, v in params.items()])

def activate_tree(url, headers, path):
    "Performs tree activation from supplied path."
    print 'Activating %s' % path
    http = httplib2.Http()
    data = {    'cmd': 'activate',
                'ignoredeactivated': 'true',
                'reactivate': 'true',
                'onlymodified': 'true',
                'path': path
                }
    headers.update({'Content-type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'})
    response = http.request(url, headers=headers, method='POST', body=urllib.urlencode(data))
    print html2text(response[1])

CQ_AUTH_HEADER = cq_auth_header(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
activate_tree(ACTIVATION_URL, CQ_AUTH_HEADER, ACTIVATION_PATH)