Configuration

To connect an instance of Kadi4Mat to this library, the host of the Kadi4Mat instance as well as a personal access token (PAT) are required. The host is the fully qualified domain name of a Kadi4Mat instance, e.g. https://kadi4mat.example.edu. PATs on the other hand have to be created via the web interface of the same Kadi4Mat instance in the menu found in Settings > Access tokens. Please also refer to the corresponding documentation of Kadi4Mat itself.

You can either directly pass the token and host to the KadiManager class (see also the library section) or use a config file to store this information, which is usually recommended. Note that the former method of specifying settings takes precedence over the use of a config file.

The kadi-apy CLI provides various convenience commands to create and update the config file:

kadi-apy config create   # Create a basic config file.
kadi-apy config set-host # Change a host in the config file.
kadi-apy config set-pat  # Change a PAT in the config file.

The first command will create a sample config file similar to the following (without the comments), residing in a suitable location in your home directory, depending on the operating system:

; Global settings.
[global]
; The name of the default Kadi4Mat instance to use.
default = my_instance
; Timeout in seconds for all requests.
timeout = 60
; Whether to verify the SSL/TLS certificate of the host.
verify = True
; Optional custom CA bundle to use for SSL/TLS verification.
ca_bundle = /path/to/certfile
; A comma-separated whitelist of hosts that kadi-apy is allowed to redirect to. Note
; that the "Authorization" header will always be stripped on redirect.
whitelist = https://example.com,https://example2.com

; Specific settings for the current default instance.
[my_instance]
; Host of the instance.
host = https://kadi.example.edu
; PAT corresponding to the instance.
pat = <PAT>

; Specific settings for another instance.
[my_second_instance]
host = https://kadi.example2.edu
pat = <PAT>