Insight object attribute

[oymelnyk]

Hi, can you help me?
I want to get value of Insight object attribute.
Now I have Insight Object key, and I don`t understand how I can do it.

[oymelnyk]

Insight Object:
key = "A123"
name = "Some object"
first_attr = "INFO"
second_attr = "Additional info".

I want to get name, and first_attr.

Maybe this is a simple question, I'm sorry, as I'm a beginner

[dstengele]

Hi, don't be sorry, the documentation ist still kind of... lacking :D

I suppose, you have initialized the basic stuff as described in the README? If so, you can do an IQL search with object_schema.search_iql("Key = A-123") and, as this method returns a Generator instead of a list directly, convert it to a list and get the first item:

objects = [user for user in object_schema.search_iql("Key = A-123")]
insight_object = objects[0]

That object then holds allthe information of the Insight object and you can access its attributes via the attributes property which is a dict of the attribute names as they are defined in Insight:

name = insight_object.attributes["name").value
first_attr = insight_object.attributes["first_attr").value

The .value is important as the attribute dict only holds InsightAttributeValueObjects whose actual values are requested from the REST API when needed.

[oymelnyk]

Hi,
AttributeError: 'generator' object has no attribute 'attributes'

[oymelnyk]

I found mistake.
I have 'key' and I need to use this:

obj = InsightObject (insight, 'Key')

first_attr = obj.attributes['attr_name'].value