Developer Overview
Python API
ShotGrid software provides a Python-based API for accessing ShotGrid and integrating with other tools. The API follows the CRUD pattern allowing execution of Create, Read, Update, and Delete actions on the ShotGrid server. Each request acts on a single entity type and depending on the specific action, can define filters, columns to return, sorting information, and some additional options.
Event Trigger Framework
When you want to access the ShotGrid event stream, the preferred way to do so is to monitor the events table, get any new events, process them and repeat.
A lot of stuff is required for this process to work successfully, stuff that may not have any direct bearing on the business rules that need to be applied.
The role of the framework is to keep any tedious monitoring tasks out of the hands of the business logic implementor.
The framework is a daemon process that runs on a server and monitors the ShotGrid event stream. When events are found, the daemon hands the events out to a series of registered plugins. Each plugin can process the event as it wishes.
Action Menu Item Framework
API developers can customize context menu items on a per-entity basis. For example, from a Versions page, you could select multiple versions, right-click, then…. Build a PDF Report (for example). We call these ActionMenuItems (AMI’s).