Introduction¶
EAvatar ME, or Avame for short, is an event-driven agent for task automation. It’s designed with following scenarios in mind:
- Web scraping
- Web functional tests
- Network service monitoring
- Cloud application integration
Basically speaking, Avame runs tasks on behalf of the user in the background.
A task is a unit of work that performs one action only. Related tasks are grouped as a job for complicated workflow. Incidentally, a job is the unit for submission and is described by a script. The scripts are nothing but restrictive Python code. Compared to regular Python code, a script do not support following features, just to name a few:
- No import statement
- No while loop
- No print statement
- Names start with double underscores are prohibited.
- No function definition
- No class definition
All these restrictions are to make scripts easier to write and read. Other heavy-lifting actions are provided by modules and exposed to scripts.
The source code of Avame project is released with Apache license 2.0