Sample API Code

This Python example demonstrates LogZilla API integration with comprehensive error handling, authentication, and query management. The code sample provides practical implementations for common API operations.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.6 or higher
• requests library

import requests
import json
import time

## Configuration

# Replace with actual LogZilla API URL and authentication token.
BASE_URL = "https://your-logzilla-server/api"
AUTH_TOKEN = "your-api-token-here"

HEADERS = {
    "Authorization": f"token {AUTH_TOKEN}",
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
}

## API Request Function

def make_api_request(url, method="GET", payload=None):
    """
    Reusable function to make API requests with comprehensive error handling.
    """
    try:
        if method == "GET":
            response = requests.get(url, headers=HEADERS, timeout=10)
        elif method == "POST":
            # Apply timeout for consistency
            response = requests.post(url, json=payload, headers=HEADERS, timeout=10)
        else:
            # Unsupported method
            raise ValueError(f"Unsupported HTTP method: {method}")

        response.raise_for_status()
        return response.json()

    except requests.exceptions.HTTPError as e:
        if e.response.status_code == 401:
            print("API Error: 401 Unauthorized. Token refresh required.")
        elif e.response.status_code == 429:
            print("API Error: 429 Too Many Requests. Waiting 60 seconds...")
            time.sleep(60)
        elif e.response.status_code == 404:
            print(f"API Error: 404 Not Found at {url}")
            return None
        else:
            print(f"API Error: {e.response.json().get('detail', str(e))}")
        raise
    except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e:
        print(f"Network error: {e}")
        raise

## Usage Example

EVENT_ID = "your-event-id-here"
event_url = f"{BASE_URL}/events/{EVENT_ID}"

try:
    print(f"Retrieving event with ID: {EVENT_ID}")

    event_data = make_api_request(event_url, method="GET")

    if event_data is not None:
        print("Retrieved event data:")
        print(json.dumps(event_data, indent=2))
    else:
        print("Event not found.")

except ValueError as e:
    print(f"Request configuration error: {e}")
except requests.exceptions.RequestException:
    print("Request failed. Check error messages for details.")