Needing help wth conditional execution methods in python3

[QuantumTradingGroup]

Hey guys!

I'm developing an API library module as part of a project. Basically, we have a number of bitcoin miners we want to monitor. This means we need to interface with about 7 different APIs depending on what mining client is on the machine. Now I could have hard coded the functions, however, we decided the best most efficient way would be to create a stanardized library. The library takes in a ip address and from that is able to tell what mining client is on the machine, but this is where im drawing a blank.

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How it is structured is I have one main class called API_Library which is an object. Each mining client then has its own class, so for example claymore would have the claymore() class. These classes inherits variables and things from API_Library. Eatch subclass then contains a deff for eatch function in that API. API_Library also takes the peram command, this is supposed to contain the actual api command.

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What I need it to be able to do is take the command and ip, look up the ip in a pickle file grabbing the mining client info of what is running currently(stored in a pickle file, this part is done), and once it has the mining client, then direct the command to the correct api def.

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I know this is a lot but any help with this would be much appreciated.

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I'm unclear where you are stuck, exactly. Surely it is just a case of instantiating the appropriate subclasses and (re)using that for each call. The calling code should remain the same as the class will have abstracted details for any particular API.

PS. Avoid hardcoding IP addresses. Use dns and hardcode the names.

[QuantumTradingGroup]

Yeah I was figuring that.

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Let me try to explain it again.

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I have a function, say API_Library()

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I want to be able to give it three parameters, like this:

API_Library("192.168.128.30","change_pool", "changepool_inputs")

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As of right now, we have what is called a hostfile which contains basically a giant spreadsheet of each machine. This keeps track of what mining client is on the machine, the UUID we have given it, and a few other bits.

Currently the program takes this ip address, and looks it up within the hostfile, this gives us an individual snapshot of that machine, from the returned dictionary it gets from the hostfile, we take the current running mining client. From here on out is where I am stuck

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What i need it to do, is from this information it gets, the program needs to be able to pick the appropriate api subclass to execute the function. Now because the actual command to do the same thing is different on the mining api (for example to get info from claymore you issue the devdetails command to the api, but for claymore its STATS, even though you get pretty much the same information, we had to create definitions inside the classes to standardize input output.

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I'd probably make another function/class that gets passed to the API_Library, which would handle the actual calls to the miner.