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Client

What is this?

With the following clients you can use them as context managers and they provide extra functionality for you. Each client is documented below:

Classes

CloudFormation helpers

What is this?

The following methods are added to clients instantiated using Betterboto:

Methods

Organizations helpers

What is this?

The following methods are added to clients instantiated using Betterboto:

Methods

betterboto.organizations.convert_path_to_ou(self, ou)

This method accepts an ou and returns the path from the root account down to the ou

Parameters

• self – organizations client

• ou – the account

Returns

the path from the root account down to the ou

betterboto.organizations.list_children_nested(self, **kwargs)

This method will return a list of all children (either ACCOUNT or ORGANIZATIONAL_UNIT) for the given ParentId. It includes children, grandchildren lower levels of nesting.

Parameters

• self – organizations client

• kwargs – these are passed onto the list_children method call

Returns

list of children in the structure of [{‘Id’: “0123456789010”}, {‘Id’: “1009876543210”}]

betterboto.organizations.list_children_single_page(self, **kwargs)

This will continue to call list_children until there are no more pages left to retrieve. It will return the aggregated response in the same structure as list_children does.

Parameters

• self – organizations client

• kwargs – these are passed onto the list_children method call

Returns

organizations_client.list_children.response

Service Catalog helpers

What is this?

The following methods are added to clients instantiated using Betterboto:

Methods

betterboto.servicecatalog.list_portfolios_single_page(self, **kwargs)

This will continue to call list_portfolios until there are no more pages left to retrieve. It will return the aggregated response in the same structure as list_portfolios does.

Parameters

• self – servicecatalog client

• kwargs – these are passed onto the list_portfolios method call

Returns

servicecatalog_client.list_portfolios.response

betterboto.servicecatalog.list_provisioning_artifacts_single_page(self, **kwargs)

This will continue to call list_provisioning_artifacts until there are no more pages left to retrieve. It will return the aggregated response in the same structure as list_provisioning_artifacts does.

Parameters

• self – servicecatalog client

• kwargs – these are passed onto the list_provisioning_artifacts method call

Returns

servicecatalog_client.list_provisioning_artifacts.response

betterboto.servicecatalog.search_products_as_admin_single_page(self, **kwargs)

This will continue to call search_products_as_admin until there are no more pages left to retrieve. It will return the aggregated response in the same structure as search_products_as_admin does.

Parameters

• self – servicecatalog client

• kwargs – these are passed onto the search_products_as_admin method call

Returns

servicecatalog_client.search_products_as_admin.response