Write sine wave points to Influxdb for testing.

sine_wave_test_influxdb.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import argparse

from influxdb import InfluxDBClient
import math
import datetime
import time

USER = 'root'
PASSWORD = 'root'
DBNAME = 'tutorial'

def main(host='localhost', port=8086):
    """
    main function to generate the sin wave
    """
    now = datetime.datetime.today()

    client = InfluxDBClient(host, port, USER, PASSWORD, DBNAME)
    client.drop_database(DBNAME)

    print("Create database: " + DBNAME)
    client.create_database(DBNAME)
    client.switch_database(DBNAME)

    while True:
        for angle in range(0, 360):
            point = [{
                "measurement": 'sin',
                "fields": {
                    "value": math.sin(math.radians(angle))
                }
            }]
            client.write_points(point)
	    time.sleep(1)

def parse_args():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
        description='example code to play with InfluxDB')
    parser.add_argument('--host', type=str, required=False, default='localhost',
                        help='hostname influxdb http API')
    parser.add_argument('--port', type=int, required=False, default=8086,
                        help='port influxdb http API')
    return parser.parse_args()


if __name__ == '__main__':
    args = parse_args()
    main(host=args.host, port=args.port)