High-level client

[dekuenstle]

The basic dmsclient is only an minimal abstraction of the rest requests. Usually the only way of filtering is through a product id. Still, the most common usecases would require exact or fuzzy filtering by the name or similar. The cli solves e.g. the issue to buy a product with a fuzzy name by querying all products, matching the products to the fuzzy name (with util functions of the core) and then buy with the matched product's id.

This functionality should be available directly through a high level client which handles multiple rest-api calls and matching itself. If done properly, the methods of the cli.py should be reduceable to client calls and i/o. Still unclear is, how to handle feedback cases: E.g. if the fuzzy product name matches multiple, the cli asks the user about which is meant. Any suggestions how to handle this by @smoehrle or others?

[smoehrle]

You already mentioned the solution. Move the logic from the cli into the client so it is reusable for other purposes. E.g. the client has a search/match function which handles the fuzzy name matching and returns a list of results which may be none, one or multiple. But only the caller can decide what to do next.