0.8.0 - 2018-01-04

New Endpoint Coverage

• Account
  • Delete a sub account
• Grading Standards (Thanks, @JonGuilbe)
• Notification Preferences (Thanks, @a-goetz)
  • Update a preference
  • Update preferences by category
  • Update multiple preferences
• Outcomes (Thanks, @a-goetz)
• Quiz Question Groups (Thanks, @JonGuilbe)
• Rubric (Thanks, @sigurdurb)

General

• Added support for other iterables as parameter values. (Thanks, @liblit)
• For many endpoints that accept an "object id", either a CanvasAPI Object or integer ID can now be passed. (Thanks, @a-goetz)
• Added a requester cache that rememebers the last 5 requests to Canvas. It can be accessed as the attribute _cache of the requester object. (e.g. course._requester._cache)
• Files can now be downloaded directly from the File object in one of two ways: (Thanks, @DanBrink91)
  1. get_contents will directly return the contents of the file. (e.g. file.get_contents())
  2. download will download the file and save it to the provided path. (e.g. file.download('example.txt'))
• Moved several methods exclusive to the API Key owner's user from the User class to a new class called CurrentUser. There is a new method in the Canvas class called get_current_user to access this object. (e.g. canvas.get_current_user()) (Thanks, @DanBrink91)

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where creating conversations wouldn't work until the user iterated over the response.
• Lots of formatting fixes and spelling corrections.

Deprecation Warning

Including /api/v1/ at the end of the API URL passed to a new Canvas object is now deprecated. Users should now only pass the root URL into the Canvas object (e.g. "https://example.com/api/v1/" should now be "https://example.com").

For now, users including /api/v1/ will see a DeprecationWarning, but things will otherwise operate normally. The ability to continue using /api/v1/ will be removed in a future release.