pdfreactor-api 1.8.0.dev4

Structural changes

• The original PDFreactor module from the server distribution tarball is called pdfreactor.api here.

• The exception classes have been moved to the pdfreactor.exceptions module.

Compatible changes

Most code reduction measures don’t affect the usage of the PDFreactor class:

• Generic changes to the code, e.g. Python version switches and imports (which are executed at runtime in Python) have been moved out of the methods to the top of the module.

• Code to handle options is replaced by methods and a helper function:

  • For all methods which use a config argument: If none is given, create one, to take our client information.

  • The connectionSettings option is used by several methods and processed by an appropriate method.

  • A few methods accept an optional stream argument before another option. This is handled by a special function as well. Every legitimate usage should continue to work.

Other changes:

• The apiKey attribute may be set to a quoted or unquoted value.

Incompatible changes

• Reduced the number of exception classes:

  • All classes which inherit from ServerException have been removed, as well as the PDFreactor._createServerException method.

  • ServerException is an HTTPError now and sports a few additional read-only properties to provide the same information.

    This allowed us to greatly simplify the error handling code in the conversion methods.

  • If you wish to use all (remaining) exception classes of the package, import from the pdfreactor.exceptions module.