I either get this error message by the programme I try to curl to.
addons21/2055492159/web.py", line 199, in handlerWrapper
if params.get('action', '') == 'requestPermission':
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'params' referenced before assignment
Or the variables are just passed with their names- like %$KMVAR_Answer% instead of e.g. "This would be an answer" .
Thanks very much @JimmyHartington . I already did it with all variations of quotes and the problem persisted. Below is the adjusted version as you recommended.
addons21/2055492159/web.py", line 199, in handlerWrapper
if params.get('action', '') == 'requestPermission':
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'params' referenced before assignment
If I don't use variables like so
curl localhost:8765 -X POST -d '{"action": "addNotes", "version": 6, "params": {"notes": [{"deckName": "Castree", "modelName": "Cloze (Hide all)", "fields": {"Question": "<div class=“q”>5choice?{{c1::choice burden}}</div>", "Quote": "One whose name is used as an eponym; a person after whom something is named."}}]}}'
Have you tried just using one quote around each variable?
Or maybe building a new variable with the parameters. And the just pass that variable to the shell script
I've quit trying to battle this problem. Instead, I write the text of the script (including the variables) to a txt file. Then, in the next KM action, I specify a shell script from that file rather that from text. Usually, that works. This also allows me to see exactly what the script ends up being.
Unfortunately, all attempts are resulting in the same error message
addons21/2055492159/web.py", line 199, in handlerWrapper
if params.get('action', '') == 'requestPermission':
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'params' referenced before assignment
Thanks @thoffman666 ! I was thinking about the same, but with Python. Could you perhaps post an example please? I know how to pass variables into a python script. But I'm not sure how to execute the curl command then based on the python script's result
That I know thanks! But I'm not sure if I could execute the curl function via pycurl (or so) without running into additional issues. I would prefer a way where I could directly use the curl command. And apart from the Keyboard Maestro implementation tried so far I'm not sure how do to that. I imagine
1.) compiling the whole command with the variables in a Python script
2.) passing the result of that script into a variable
3.) writing this variable into a .txt file
4.) executing this .txt file via the Execute Shell script option
Since you’re familiar with Python, I’m going to suggest you stop fighting with curl and shell quoting rules and use the requests module. It allows you to just build a regular Python dictionary and send it as the POST data.
import json
import urllib.request
def request(action, **params):
return {'action': action, 'params': params, 'version': 6}
def invoke(action, **params):
requestJson = json.dumps(request(action, **params)).encode('utf-8')
response = json.load(urllib.request.urlopen(urllib.request.Request('http://localhost:8765', requestJson)))
if len(response) != 2:
raise Exception('response has an unexpected number of fields')
if 'error' not in response:
raise Exception('response is missing required error field')
if 'result' not in response:
raise Exception('response is missing required result field')
if response['error'] is not None:
raise Exception(response['error'])
return response['result']
invoke("addNotes", notes= [{"deckName": "Default", "modelName": "Basic", "fields": {"Word": "content", "Translate": "content"}, "tags": ["yomichan"]}])
I tried this before in fact. But that didn't work either. Possible though that I made a mistake somewhere in the script as I'm not that familiar with Pythons requests module. However, I didn't get an error message. But it is also not working as nothing gets added to the programme I try adding this to. I'm executing the script as ak.py and literally nothing happens like so:
The indentation in your Python script may be the problem.
If it matches what you are showing there, then you have two function definitions but no function applications/invocations, so the script would evaluate to nothing.
The call to invoke :
invoke("addNotes", notes ...
needs to be unindented (full left) to prevent it from being part of the function definition above, and to make it the main expression for evaluation.
No, I meant the third-party requests module that I linked to. You may need to install it, but it's much easier to use. More or less like this:
import requests
myURL = "http://localhost:8765"
myData = {"action": "addNotes", "version": 6, "params": {"notes": [{"deckName": "Castree", "modelName": "Cloze (Hide all)", "fields": {"Question": "<div class=“q”>5choice?{{c1::choice burden}}</div>", "Quote": "One whose name is used as an eponym; a person after whom something is named."}}]}}
r = requests.post(myURL, data=myData)
print(r.json())
The myData variable is just a regular Python dictionary, not a JSON string. You can, and probably should, set it up over multiple lines so it's actually readable. I just copied and pasted from your example.
