How to parse the payload ?

[Kleriker]

Hey guys,

i am not new to eventghost but i am new to scripting with python . The last days i worked hard on my home-automation and i am now at the point, where i want to get my call monitor (janrufmonitor) involved. I am now able the get this data sent to EG as payload: "MSN / Callername / Callernumer / time / date". But now i reached the end of my skills, because i have no idea how to parse the payload to assign each information to its own variable.

Therefore i really hope for your help.

Best regards,
Alex

PS: Sorry for my bad english skills - it is not my native language

[miljbee]

eg.event.payload will give you the payload. You can then parse it with str.find or str.split, 

[krambriw]

A sample code I believe should work
Best regards

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# "MSN / Callername / Callernumer / time / date"

p = eg.event.payload
p = p.split('/')
caller_msn = p[0].strip()
caller_name = p[1].strip()
caller_nbr = p[2].strip()
caller_time = p[3].strip()
caller_date = p[4].strip()

[Kleriker]

Thank you very much for your help

The Final Script looks like this (a friend was able to help me):

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s = eg.event.payload
res = s[0].split(',')
msn = res[0].split('/')[0]
name = res[1].strip()
phone = res[2].split('/')[1].strip()
date = res[2].split('/')[2]
time = res[2].split('/')[3]

Best regards,
Alex

[Kleriker]

Hi krambriw,

i have noticed that your script is working a bit better, so i want to use it. But there is one problem, because the actual payload looks like this:

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[u'MSN/Name/Number/Date/Time']

The problem are the "[ ]". How do i get rid of them with your script ?

Best regards,
Alex

[miljbee]

[] is for python lists
["test"] is a list containing one string (which is also a list, but that's another story)

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myList=["test"]
myString=myList[0]

u'test' is a unicode string
you can switch between both if needed :
str(u'myUnicodeString')
unicode("myString")

[Kleriker]

Hi miljbee,

thank you for your help, but obviously i am to stupid, to bring your explaination into my script. Can you help me please ?
I want to get rid off the [] and " u' " and the " ' " at the end.


Best regards,
Alex

EDIT:

Never mind - it worked Thank you !

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z = eg.event.payload
p = z[0]
p = p.split('/')
msn = p[0].strip()
name = p[1].strip()
phone = p[2].strip()
date = p[3].strip()
time = p[4].strip()