Python Wrapper / Android Application for accessing Whatcom Transit bus schedules
Python wrapper is written with bottle.py. It recieves input as GET query variables, connects to WTA's undocumented HTML-based* API to issue the command, parses the result, finally returning clean JSON. This is a wrapper between WTA's proprietary data format and a consistent API. Ideally, when WTA changes their code, applications implementing this code should continue to work.
There is the main API (wta.py) which does the HTTP calls to WTA and returns python objects. Additionally, there is the web layer which exports this API via JSON and provides caching (routes.py).
The Android Application: "wta-droid" connects to a server running the Python wrapper to fulfill its data needs.
Currently only two functions are implemented at the Python layer:
bottle route WTA ".a" param
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/location?q= LocationLookupAddress
Return a list of tuples containing ( stopid, location name )
/times?stopid= NextBusMatch
Return a list of tuples containing ( stop time, route #, route name, destination sign )
- Does not conform to any HTML standards I'm familiar with, nor is anything semantic.