Python

Python SDK for Poodle’s email sending API.

Table of Contents

• Installation
• Quick Start
• Features
• Examples
• API Reference
• Development
• Contributing
• License

Installation

pip install poodle-python

Quick Start

from poodle import PoodleClient

# Initialize the client
client = PoodleClient("your-api-key")

# Send an email
try:
    response = client.send_email(
        from_email="[email protected]",
        to_email="[email protected]",
        subject="Hello from Poodle!",
        html_content="<h1>Hello World</h1>",
        text_content="Hello World"  # Optional plain text version
    )
    print(f"Success: {response['message']}")
except PoodleError as e:
    print(f"Error: {e.message}")
    if e.status_code:
        print(f"Status Code: {e.status_code}")
    if e.details:
        print(f"Details: {e.details}")

Features

• Intuitive API: Get started in minutes.
• Detailed Errors: Understand and debug issues quickly with PoodleError objects.
• Flexible Content: Send rich HTML or plain text emails easily.
• Connection Pooling: Optimize performance with connection pooling.
• Type Hints: Better IDE support with type hints.
• Context Manager: Proper resource cleanup with context manager.

Examples

Initialize with Custom Options

client = PoodleClient(
    api_key="your-api-key",
    base_url="https://custom.api.url",  # Optional custom API URL
    timeout=60.0  # Optional custom timeout in seconds
)

Send HTML-only Email

response = client.send_email(
    from_email="[email protected]",
    to_email="[email protected]",
    subject="HTML Email",
    html_content="<h1>Hello</h1><p>This is an HTML email</p>"
)

Send Plain Text Email

response = client.send_email(
    from_email="[email protected]",
    to_email="[email protected]",
    subject="Plain Text Email",
    text_content="Hello! This is a plain text email."
)

Using as Context Manager

with PoodleClient("your-api-key") as client:
    response = client.send_email(
        from_email="[email protected]",
        to_email="[email protected]",
        subject="Test Email",
        text_content="Hello World"
    )

Error Handling

try:
    response = client.send_email(...)
except PoodleError as e:
    print(f"An API Error occurred: {e.message}")
    if e.status_code == 429:  # Rate limit exceeded
        # The PoodleError __str__ method will format this nicely.
        # e.details will contain the specific error string from the API.
        print(str(e))
        if e.details:
            print(f"Rate limit details: {e.details}")
    elif e.status_code == 400:  # Validation error
        print(f"Validation error: {e.message}")
        if e.details:
            print(f"Validation details: {e.details}")
    elif e.status_code:
        print(f"Status Code: {e.status_code}")
        if e.details:
            print(f"Error details: {e.details}")
    else:
        # Network error or other non-HTTP error (e.details will be None)
        print(f"Error: {e}")

API Reference

PoodleClient

Constructor

PoodleClient(
    api_key: str,
    base_url: Optional[str] = None,
    timeout: Optional[float] = None
)

• api_key: Your Poodle API key (required)
• base_url: Optional custom API base URL
• timeout: Optional custom timeout for API requests in seconds

Methods

send_email

send_email(
    from_email: str,
    to_email: str,
    subject: str,
    html_content: Optional[str] = None,
    text_content: Optional[str] = None
) -> Dict[str, Any]

Sends an email using the Poodle API.

Parameters:

• from_email: The sender’s email address
• to_email: The recipient’s email address
• subject: The email subject line
• html_content: Optional HTML content for the email
• text_content: Optional plain text content for the email

Returns: A dictionary containing at least:

• success: Boolean indicating success
• message: Success message from the API

Raises:

• PoodleError: If the API request fails or returns an error

PoodleError

Custom exception class for Poodle-related errors.

Attributes:

• message: Human-readable error message (from API message field)
• status_code: HTTP status code from the API (if applicable)
• details: Optional string containing additional error details from the API (from API error field, or None)

Development

Setup Development Environment

1. Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/usepoodle/poodle-python.git
cd poodle-python

2. Install development dependencies:

pip install poetry
poetry install

Running Tests

poetry run pytest

Code Style

This project uses:

• Black for code formatting
• Flake8 for linting
• MyPy for type checking

To check code style:

poetry run black .
poetry run flake8
poetry run mypy poodle

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please read our Contributing Guide for details on the process for submitting pull requests and our Code of Conduct.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.