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What you get
12 production-ready Python recipes
Postman collection for all endpoints
Session setup with auth + retry + SSL
AF element traversal and event frames
Incremental ETL with watermark tracking
What is included
| Recipe | Category | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Session setup | Foundation | Auth, SSL, retry, connection pooling |
| 2. Find a point | Foundation | Path lookup, name filter, selectedFields |
| 3. Current value | Reading | Digital state handling, quality checks |
| 4. Recorded to DataFrame | Reading | Boundary types, quality filtering, truncation detection |
| 5. Summary statistics | Reading | All summary types, calculationBasis |
| 6. Write single value | Writing | updateOption, bufferOption |
| 7. Write multiple values | Writing | Partial failure checking |
| 8. Batch read | Batch | Chunking, digital state handling |
| 9. AF element traversal | AF | Databases, elements, attributes, recursive walker |
| 10. Event frames | AF | Search, create, read event frame values |
| 11. Incremental ETL | Production | Watermark tracking for reliable pipelines |
| 12. Health check | Production | API reachability, data freshness, connectivity |
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