Python for creo automation

Hi,

I learned by trial and error 🙂

Martin,

TLDR;

creopyson would be an example of someone (an awesome guy in France) that build a wrapper for CREOSON functions so that a any other user would not have to create their own.  Basically to help other python users "get there faster" for Creo Automation using CREOSON...  Specifically, load library, initialize, and start using - without having to first build the technical bits for the communication first in python to communicate with the CREOSON server.

DEEPER EXPLANATION;

CREOSON was developed to be a generic bi-directional service interface into Creo for performing optimized actions via JLINK (e.g. simpler -more obvious- commands, with more options via standard JSON transactions - from ANY language).

The core premise of CREOSON was to pass a standard JSON structure over HTTP to a service endpoint - locally or over a network.

Because CREOSON uses HTTP as the main interface for transacting requests, ANY language can be used to communicate with it (e.g. VB, Javascript, Java, Python, PHP, etc..) that supports HTTP transactions.

Some languages have HTTP interfaces baked-in, others use libraries to perform the actions as optional packages. It is typically up to the user to define the HTTP interface (simple send/receive function that communicates with the CREOSON server) and then write the function(s) for specific CREOSON requests.

Typically users create their own function for say opening a model (e.g. myOpenModel(fileName);) that would take an input argument (like fileName) and build the CREOSON JSON request and execute it, then handing the response.  This process would likely be repeated for each function they wanted to use in their application (build a wrapper function that builds and calls CREOSON and responds for their own purpose).

So - creopyson is an opensource contribution (from someone in France) who loved CREOSON and wanted to make it even easier to use with python by pre-building all the interfaces in python to call CREOSON - and contributed it for everyone else to use who love phython also.  A pretty awesome OpenSource contribution!