Ever wondered what's going on in your .pro files? I did so I tried to take one apart with Python and re-create it with TM1py...

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I've seen numerous solutions for handling data integration where data needs to be extracted form TM1. Most end up involving multiple tasks triggered and managed in different tools by different teams. None of the moving parts are particularly complicated but the end to end process can be difficult to debug and it never seems to result in a particularly reusable solution. The introduction of the REST API and development of TM1py have increased the options. I thought it might be interesting to see how Airflow might be used to manage pipelines need data from TM1.

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I wanted an excuse to explore TM1py in more depth and had been thinking for a while about the possibilities offered by using a test framework like pytest to run automate tests of a TM1 model. This is really a quick proof of concept to gauge how feasible it might prove.

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