Azure Communication Rooms client library for Python

This package contains a Python SDK for Azure Communication Services for Rooms. Read more about Azure Communication Services here

Disclaimer

Azure SDK Python packages support for Python 2.7 has ended 01 January 2022. For more information and questions, please refer to https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/issues/20691

Key concepts

The Azure Communication Rooms package is used to do following:

  • Create scheduled meetings

  • Create meetings with managed permissions for its participants ## Getting started

Installating the package

python -m pip install azure-communication-rooms

Prequisites

Client Initialization

To initialize the Rooms Client, the connection string can be used to instantiate.

from azure.communication.rooms import RoomsClient

client = RoomsClient.from_connection_string(conn_str='<connection_str>' )

Examples

Key parameters

  • valid_from: A datetime object from which room will start existing

  • valid_until: A datetime object after which room meeting would end

  • room_join_policy: The join policy of the room. Allows only participants or any communication .. code-block:

    service users to join
    
  • participants: A list of RoomParticipant containing MRI’s of invitees to the room All the above attributes are optional. The service provides default values of valid_until and valid_from if they are missing.

Create Room

from azure.communication.rooms import RoomsClient
from azure.core.exceptions import HttpResponseError
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

client = RoomsClient.from_connection_string(conn_str='<connection_str>')
try:
    response = client.create_room(
        valid_from=datetime.now(),
        valid_until=valid_from + timedelta(weeks=4)
        participants=["first-participant", "second-participant"]
    )
except HttpResponseError as e:
    print('service responds error: {}'.format(e))

Update Room

from azure.communication.rooms import RoomsClient
from azure.core.exceptions import HttpResponseError
from datetime import datetime, timedelta

client = RoomsClient.from_connection_string(conn_str='<connection_str>')
try:
    response = client.update_room(
        room_id="id of the room to be updated",
        valid_from=datetime.now(),
        valid_until=valid_from + timedelta(weeks=4)
    )
except HttpResponseError as e:
    print('service responds error: {}'.format(e))

Delete a Room

from azure.communication.rooms import RoomsClient
from azure.core.exceptions import HttpResponseError

client = RoomsClient.from_connection_string(conn_str='<connection_str>' )
try:
    client.delete_room(
        room_id="id of the room to be deleted")
except HttpResponseError as e:
    print('service responds error: {}'.format(e))

Add participants to Room

from azure.communication.rooms import RoomsClient
from azure.core.exceptions import HttpResponseError

client = RoomsClient.from_connection_string(conn_str='<connection_str>' )
try:
    response = client.add_participants(
        room_id="id of the room to be updated",
        participants=["new-participant-one", "new-participant-two"]
    )
except HttpResponseError as e:
    print('service responds error: {}'.format(e))

Please take a look at the samples directory for detailed examples of how to use this library to create and manage rooms.

Troubleshooting

Rooms operations will throw an exception if the request to the server fails. The Rooms client will raise exceptions defined in Azure Core.

Next steps

More sample code

More examples are coming soon…

Provide Feedback

If you encounter any bugs or have suggestions, please file an issue in the Issues section of the project

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