added a method to look up Documents by a specified date

wrote unit tests for it

RTC.py

@@ -74,17 +74,21 @@ def __init__(self):
         pass
 
     @classmethod
-    def _apicall(self, endpoint, sections='', make_obj=False, **kwargs):
+    def _apicall(self, endpoint, sections='', make_obj=False, *args, **kwargs):
         if not apikey:
             raise Exception('API key must be set')
 
 
         kwargs['apikey'] = apikey
         if not(sections == ''):
             kwargs['sections'] = ','.join([arg for arg in sections])
-
-        url = "{0}?{1}".format(urljoin(self.base_url, endpoint),
-                               urlencode(kwargs, doseq=True))
+        if args:
+            extra_arguments = "&{0}".format('&'.join(args))
+        else:
+            extra_arguments = ''
+        url = "{0}?{1}{2}".format(urljoin(self.base_url, endpoint),
+                                            urlencode(kwargs, doseq=True),
+                                            extra_arguments)
         print url
         try:
             response = urlopen(url).read().decode('utf-8')
@@ -280,6 +284,21 @@ def cosponsors(cls, bill_id, make_obj=False, sections=('cosponsors',)):
         bill = result['bills'][0]
         return [i for i in bill['cosponsors']]
 
+class Documents(RTC_Client):
+
+    # currently, the posted_at is the only guarenteed field
+    # it used a timestamp format, which requires the url
+    # to display it twice to do a '__gte' and '__lte'
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_by_date(cls, date, make_obj=False, sections=''):
+        endpoint = "documents.json"
+        begin_time = '%sT00:00:00' % date
+        end_time = '%sT23:59:59' % date
+        params = {'posted_at__gte':begin_time, 'posted_at__lte':end_time}
+        result = super(Documents, cls)._apicall(endpoint, sections,
+        make_obj, **params)
+        return result['documents']
 
 class Votes(RTC_Client):
     @classmethod

tests/RTCtest.py

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-#!/usr/bin/python
 """
 Simple test file to make sure each function is working.
 Must be edited manually.
@@ -113,20 +112,30 @@ def video_test():
             print "* offset: %s | duration: %s | summary: %s  " %\
                 (clip['offset'], clip['duration'], clip['events'][0])
 
-
-bill()
-mult_bills()
-bill_actions()
-bill_passage_votes()
-bill_committees()
-bill_titles()
-bill_amendments()
-bill_related_bills()
-bill_cosponsors()
-
-votes()
-floor_updates()
-floor_updates_search()
-get_mult_floor_updates()
-todays_floor_updates()
-video_test()
+# documents tests
+def document_test():
+    document_list = RTC.Documents.get_by_date('2011-03-14')
+    print pprint(document_list)
+
+#bill()
+#mult_bills()
+#bill_actions()
+#bill_passage_votes()
+#bill_committees()
+#bill_titles(
+#bill_amendments()
+#bill_related_bills()
+#bill_cosponsors()
+
+#votes()
+#floor_updates()
+#floor_updates_search()
+#get_mult_floor_updates()
+#todays_floor_updates()
+#video_test()
+document_test()
+
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    pass