external_data.agent module

class external_data.agent.ExternalData(interval, default_user, default_password, sources, global_topic_prefix, **kwargs)

Bases: volttron.platform.vip.agent.Agent

Gathers and publishes JSON data available via a web api.

external_data.agent.external_data_agent(config_path, **kwargs)

external_data.agent.main(argv=['/home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/volttron/envs/releases-8.x/lib/python3.6/site-packages/sphinx/__main__.py', '-T', '-E', '-b', 'html', '-d', '_build/doctrees', '-D', 'language=en', '.', '_build/html'])

Main method called by the eggsecutable.