Interface is overly complex: couple of file operations takes 120 lines

Hi,

While the project is extensible and “correct” from OOP point of view, it lacks sensible defaults and shortcuts. In the examples in this repo, it took 120 lines to open, read and delete a file. This makes the project unusable…

It would be cool to get a file this way, for example:

with Session.connect('server', 12345, 'Administrator', password) as session:
    with session.open_file('C$', '/path/to/file') as f:
        ...

Having only two visible entities, session and opened file, would be enough for most users. Connection and TreeConnect may be hidden. Security stuff needs more shurtcuts as it’s impossible for average user to quickly come up with correct ones.

[jborean93]

Just an FYI, I’ve started work on this and am slowly making progress. You can see the latest status by looking at the easy-api branch. Ultimately I’m trying to replicate the builtin os and shutil modules in Python.

[jborean93]

I’ve finally gotten around to it and have finalised the PR to add the easy-api changes to smbprotocol. If you are interested in trying this out and need any help let me know and I’ll walk you through some of it. The smbclient package should simplify all these operations in a major way and provide a nice an easy way to complete common file operations.

There are still things that are only accessible in the low level API of smbprotocol but over time these can hopefully make their way into smbclient.