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RSVP method missing in pyfacebook lib

When I was working with the fbconnect in a python-django project, I found something missing. There was no method to update rsvp for an event. I am not sure how/why those brains missed this case. Anyways, a little hack for the existing pyfacebook library does the job. Here is it.

You can download the existing project from github - http://github.com/sciyoshi/pyfacebook

Inside the package, you just need to edit one file to make it possible. Open facebook/__init__.py in your favourite editor ;).

In that file go to the definition of the dict METHODS change the value of the key 'events', initially it is like

# events methods
    'events': {
        'get': [
            ('uid', int, ['optional']),
            ('eids', list, ['optional']),
            ('start_time', int, ['optional']),
            ('end_time', int, ['optional']),
            ('rsvp_status', str, ['optional']),
        ],
        'getMembers': [
            ('eid', int, []),
        ],
        'create': [
            ('event_info', json, []),
        ],
    },

Now add the rsvp method to the events dict, then this dict will be like this

# events methods
    'events': {
        'get': [
            ('uid', int, ['optional']),
            ('eids', list, ['optional']),
            ('start_time', int, ['optional']),
            ('end_time', int, ['optional']),
            ('rsvp_status', str, ['optional']),
        ],
        'getMembers': [
            ('eid', int, []),
        ],
        'create': [
            ('event_info', json, []),
        ],
        'rsvp': [
            ('eid', int, []),
            ('rsvp_status', str, ['optional']),
        ],
    },

Official documentation for facebook's event rsvp is here - http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Events.rsvp

 

Sql and cache tracking in local development for django

While developing django applications, did you ever get confused about the unexpected result by the query generated by ORM and wished to check that query? There is a good solution. I have a habit of watching #django at times and thats how I got to know about this. Its django-devserver. Package is available here - http://github.com/dcramer/django-devserver/. After installing(with dependancies) you need to include devserver in INSTALLED_APPS in your settings file as:

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    'devserver',
)

and also you have to add a new tuple in settings as DEVSERVER_MODULES. This is for specifying which all modules to load.

DEVSERVER_MODULES = (
    'devserver.modules.sql.SQLRealTimeModule',
    'devserver.modules.sql.SQLSummaryModule',
    'devserver.modules.profile.ProfileSummaryModule',

    # Modules not enabled by default
    'devserver.modules.ajax.AjaxDumpModule',
    'devserver.modules.profile.MemoryUseModule',
    'devserver.modules.cache.CacheSummaryModule',
)

You will have to use python manage.py rundevserver instead of python manage.py runserver to run your development server. Then you will get additional informations like real-time SQL-Loggings and a summary of your cache calls

Go through the Read Me file before installing.

NB:- Beware - your terminal may get spammed by the sql-logs :p

Happy coding!