netsuite

Make requests to NetSuite Web Services and Restlets

Installation

Programmatic use only:

pip install netsuite

With CLI support:

pip install netsuite[cli]

NetSuite Configuration

It is recommended that you use token based authentication when allow 3rd party applications (such as this) to access your NetSuite instance. You can follow this guide (archived here, just in case) to enable token based authentication. Remember to copy the relevant tokens and keys from various points in the guide to your netsuite.ini file! It will look something like this:

[netsuite]
auth_type = token
# found in NetSuite at Setup > Company > Company Information > ACCOUNT ID
account = 123456
consumer_key = 789123
consumer_secret = 456789
token_id = 012345
token_secret = 678901

CLI

Configuration

To use the command line utilities you must add a config file with a [netsuite] section as shown in the NetSuite Configuration Section above.

You can add multiple sections like this if you have several different configurations. The [netsuite] section will be read by default, but can be overridden using the -c flag.

The default location that will be read is ~/.config/netsuite.ini. This can overriden with the -p flag.

Append --help to the commands to see full documentation.

restlet - Make requests to restlets

$ echo '{"savedSearchId": 987}' | netsuite restlet 123 -

interact - Interact with web services and/or restlets

$ netsuite interact
Welcome to Netsuite WS client interactive mode
Available vars:
    `ns` - NetSuite client

Example usage:
    results = ns.getList('customer', internalIds=[1337])

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Programmatic Usage

Getting Started

To use this library in python scripts, you must either create a config file in $HOME/.config/config.ini. If you prefer to use a different location (or if you are a Windows user), you can alternatively set the NETSUITE_CONFIG environment variable to the location of your configuration file.

Bash:

export NETSUITE_CONFIG=/full/path/to/config.ini

Python:

import os

os.environ['NETSUITE_CONFIG'] = '/full/path/to/config.ini'

To test that this configuration will load properly, you may want to check the output of:

import netsuite
# optional: netsuite.config.from_int(config_path, config_region)
print(netsuite.config.from_ini().__dict__)

#{'auth_type': 'token',
# 'account': '123456',
# 'consumer_key': '789123',
# 'consumer_secret': '456789',
# 'token_id': '012345',
# 'token_secret': '678901',
# 'application_id': None,
# 'email': None,
# 'password': None,
# 'preferences': {}}

Basic Usage

Fetch Records by ID

import os

os.environ['NETSUITE_CONFIG'] = '/path/to/netsuite.ini'

import netsuite

config = netsuite.config.from_ini()
client = netsuite.NetSuite(config=config)

# list of vendor records
client.getList("vendor", internalIds=[1337], externalIds=['MY_CORPORATE_IDENTIFIER1'])

# list of customer records
client.getList("customer", internalIds=[1337], externalIds=['MY_CORPORATE_IDENTIFIER1'])

Search

SearchStringField = client.Core.SearchStringField
CustomerSearchBasic = client.Common.CustomerSearchBasic
CustomerSearch = client.Relationships.CustomerSearch

search_string = SearchStringField(**{
            'operator': 'contains',
            'searchValue': 'a'
        })
customer_search_basic = CustomerSearchBasic(companyName=search_string)
record = CustomerSearch(basic=customer_search_basic)
response = client.request('search', record)

Advanced Usage and Discovery

Before you can really use the API, you have to have an idea of what you're looking for. The client has a few helper methods to facilitate the process of discovering types and functionality defined in the service.

• get_type
• get_type_factory_name
• get_type_class
• search_types
• search_type_args
• types_dump

Let's say that we want to do a search for Vendor, but we know nothing about the types or service calls required to make that happen. All we know is how to do a customer search. Based on what we know about doing a customer search, it stands to reason that there is probably a VendorSearchBasic and a VendorSearch type, but we don't know what namespace they are in or how to construct them.

get_type

print(client.get_type('VendorSearch'))
print(client.get_type('VendorSearchBasic'))

First, we can see that VendorSearch requires VendorSearchBasic.

ns13:VendorSearch(basic: ns5:VendorSearchBasic, **)

And the output of VendorSearchBasic shows me that there are all kinds of searches we could conduct on vendors.

A small subset:

• accountNumber: ns0:SearchStringField
• dateCreated: ns0:SearchDateField
• firstName: ns0:SearchStringField
• lastName: ns0:SearchStringField
• lastModifiedDate: ns0:SearchDateField

Suppose we want to find all of the recently modified vendors. In the customer search snippet above, we already knew what factories we should be using to generate the Customer types. Let's just say for now we don't know what factories we will be using for our Vendor search functionality.

Instead of searching through the WSDL, we can use get_type_factory_name and/or get_type_class.

get_type_factory_name

print(client.get_type_factory_name('VendorSearch'))
# `Relationships`

Now we know in the future that we can generate an instance of that type using

client.Relationships.VendorSearch()

Alternatively,

get_type_class

VendorSearch = client.get_type_class('VendorSearch')

Now, using all of that to figure out how to search vendors:

SearchDateField = client.get_type_class('SearchDateField')
VendorSearchBasic = client.get_type_class('VendorSearchBasic')
VendorSearch = client.get_type_class('VendorSearch')

search_date = SearchDateField('ninetyDaysAgo', operator='after')
vendor_search_basic = VendorSearchBasic(lastModifiedDate=search_date)
record = VendorSearch(basic=vendor_search_basic)
response = client.request('search', record)

Note: valid arguments for SearchDateField can be found here and for SearchDateFieldOperator here. These pages are indexed so a simple web search should help you find things like this.

search_types

If you only have a vague idea of what you are looking for, you can use search_types to discover new type names. For example, if you wanted to know what type definitions have "Vendor" in the name:

type_definitions_containing_substring_vendor = client.search_types('Vendor')

#[
#    'ns17:ItemVendor(vendor: ns0:RecordRef, vendorCode: xsd:string, **)',
#    'ns17:ItemVendorList(itemVendor: ns17:ItemVendor[], replaceAll: xsd:boolean)',
#    . . . 
#]

Or if you want to see which types have an argument matching the substring

search_type_args

type_definitions_with_vendor_in_arg_names = client.search_type_args('Vendor')

[
    . . .
    'ns17:ServicePurchaseItem(nullFieldList: ns0:NullField, . . ., vendorName: xsd:string, . . .)'
    . . . 
]

If all of that fails, you can always try perusing the output of

types_dump

print(client.types_dump)

The output is very large, so be mindful of that.