Integrating with other services

ldclient.integrations module

This submodule contains factory/configuration methods for integrating the SDK with services other than LaunchDarkly.

class ldclient.integrations.Consul[source]

Bases: object

Provides factory methods for integrations between the LaunchDarkly SDK and Consul.

DEFAULT_PREFIX = 'launchdarkly'
static new_feature_store(host=None, port=None, prefix=None, consul_opts=None, caching=<ldclient.feature_store.CacheConfig object>)[source]

Creates a Consul-backed implementation of ldclient.interfaces.FeatureStore. For more details about how and why you can use a persistent feature store, see the SDK reference guide.

To use this method, you must first install the python-consul package. Then, put the object returned by this method into the feature_store property of your client configuration (ldclient.config.Config).

from ldclient.integrations import Consul
store = Consul.new_feature_store()
config = Config(feature_store=store)
Parameters:

  • host (Optional[str]) – hostname of the Consul server (uses localhost if omitted)

  • port (Optional[int]) – port of the Consul server (uses 8500 if omitted)

  • prefix (Optional[str]) – a namespace prefix to be prepended to all Consul keys

  • consul_opts (Optional[dict]) – optional parameters for configuring the Consul client, if you need to set any of them besides host and port, as defined in the python-consul API

  • caching (CacheConfig) – specifies whether local caching should be enabled and if so, sets the cache properties; defaults to ldclient.feature_store.CacheConfig.default()

Return type:

CachingStoreWrapper

class ldclient.integrations.DynamoDB[source]

Bases: object

Provides factory methods for integrations between the LaunchDarkly SDK and DynamoDB.

static new_big_segment_store(table_name, prefix=None, dynamodb_opts={})[source]

Creates a DynamoDB-backed Big Segment store.

Big Segments are a specific type of user segments. For more information, read the LaunchDarkly documentation: https://docs.launchdarkly.com/home/users/big-segments

To use this method, you must first install the boto3 package for the AWS SDK. Then, put the object returned by this method into the store property of your Big Segments configuration (see ldclient.config.Config).

from ldclient.config import Config, BigSegmentsConfig
from ldclient.integrations import DynamoDB
store = DynamoDB.new_big_segment_store("my-table-name")
config = Config(big_segments=BigSegmentsConfig(store=store))

Note that the DynamoDB table must already exist; the LaunchDarkly SDK does not create the table automatically, because it has no way of knowing what additional properties (such as permissions and throughput) you would want it to have. The table must have a partition key called “namespace” and a sort key called “key”, both with a string type.

By default, the DynamoDB client will try to get your AWS credentials and region name from environment variables and/or local configuration files, as described in the AWS SDK documentation. You may also pass configuration settings in dynamodb_opts.

Parameters:

  • table_name (str) – the name of an existing DynamoDB table

  • prefix (Optional[str]) – an optional namespace prefix to be prepended to all DynamoDB keys

  • dynamodb_opts (Mapping[str, Any]) – optional parameters for configuring the DynamoDB client, as defined in the boto3 API

static new_feature_store(table_name, prefix=None, dynamodb_opts={}, caching=<ldclient.feature_store.CacheConfig object>)[source]

Creates a DynamoDB-backed implementation of ldclient.interfaces.FeatureStore. For more details about how and why you can use a persistent feature store, see the SDK reference guide.

To use this method, you must first install the boto3 package for the AWS SDK. Then, put the object returned by this method into the feature_store property of your client configuration (ldclient.config.Config).

from ldclient.integrations import DynamoDB
store = DynamoDB.new_feature_store("my-table-name")
config = Config(feature_store=store)

Note that the DynamoDB table must already exist; the LaunchDarkly SDK does not create the table automatically, because it has no way of knowing what additional properties (such as permissions and throughput) you would want it to have. The table must have a partition key called “namespace” and a sort key called “key”, both with a string type.

By default, the DynamoDB client will try to get your AWS credentials and region name from environment variables and/or local configuration files, as described in the AWS SDK documentation. You may also pass configuration settings in dynamodb_opts.

Parameters:

  • table_name (str) – the name of an existing DynamoDB table

  • prefix (Optional[str]) – an optional namespace prefix to be prepended to all DynamoDB keys

  • dynamodb_opts (Mapping[str, Any]) –

    optional parameters for configuring the DynamoDB client, as defined in the boto3 API

  • caching (CacheConfig) – specifies whether local caching should be enabled and if so, sets the cache properties; defaults to ldclient.feature_store.CacheConfig.default()

Return type:

CachingStoreWrapper

class ldclient.integrations.Files[source]

Bases: object

Provides factory methods for integrations with filesystem data.

static new_data_source(paths, auto_update=False, poll_interval=1, force_polling=False)[source]

Provides a way to use local files as a source of feature flag state. This would typically be used in a test environment, to operate using a predetermined feature flag state without an actual LaunchDarkly connection.

To use this component, call new_data_source, specifying the file path(s) of your data file(s) in the paths parameter; then put the value returned by this method into the update_processor_class property of your LaunchDarkly client configuration (ldclient.config.Config).

from ldclient.integrations import Files
data_source = Files.new_data_source(paths=[ myFilePath ])
config = Config(update_processor_class=data_source)

This will cause the client not to connect to LaunchDarkly to get feature flags. The client may still make network connections to send analytics events, unless you have disabled this in your configuration with send_events or offline.

The format of the data files is described in the SDK Reference Guide on Reading flags from a file. Note that in order to use YAML, you will need to install the pyyaml package.

If the data source encounters any error in any file– malformed content, a missing file, or a duplicate key– it will not load flags from any of the files.

Parameters:

  • paths (List[str]) – the paths of the source files for loading flag data. These may be absolute paths or relative to the current working directory. Files will be parsed as JSON unless the pyyaml package is installed, in which case YAML is also allowed.

  • auto_update (bool) – (default: false) True if the data source should watch for changes to the source file(s) and reload flags whenever there is a change. The default implementation of this feature is based on polling the filesystem, which may not perform well; if you install the watchdog package, its native file watching mechanism will be used instead. Note that auto-updating will only work if all of the files you specified have valid directory paths at startup time.

  • poll_interval (float) – (default: 1) the minimum interval, in seconds, between checks for file modifications– used only if auto_update is true, and if the native file-watching mechanism from watchdog is not being used.

  • force_polling (bool) – (default: false) True if the data source should implement auto-update via polling the filesystem even if a native mechanism is available. This is mainly for SDK testing.

Return type:

object

Returns:

an object (actually a lambda) to be stored in the update_processor_class configuration property

class ldclient.integrations.Redis[source]

Bases: object

Provides factory methods for integrations between the LaunchDarkly SDK and Redis.

DEFAULT_MAX_CONNECTIONS = 16
DEFAULT_PREFIX = 'launchdarkly'
DEFAULT_URL = 'redis://localhost:6379/0'
static new_big_segment_store(url='redis://localhost:6379/0', prefix='launchdarkly', max_connections=16, redis_opts={})[source]

Creates a Redis-backed Big Segment store.

Big Segments are a specific type of user segments. For more information, read the LaunchDarkly documentation: https://docs.launchdarkly.com/home/users/big-segments

To use this method, you must first install the redis package. Then, put the object returned by this method into the store property of your Big Segments configuration (see ldclient.config.Config).

from ldclient.config import Config, BigSegmentsConfig
from ldclient.integrations import Redis
store = Redis.new_big_segment_store()
config = Config(big_segments=BigSegmentsConfig(store=store))
Parameters:

  • url (str) – the URL of the Redis host; defaults to DEFAULT_URL

  • prefix (str) – a namespace prefix to be prepended to all Redis keys; defaults to DEFAULT_PREFIX

  • redis_opts (Dict[str, Any]) – extra options for initializing Redis connection from the url, see redis.connection.ConnectionPool.from_url for more details.

Return type:

BigSegmentStore

static new_feature_store(url='redis://localhost:6379/0', prefix='launchdarkly', max_connections=16, caching=<ldclient.feature_store.CacheConfig object>, redis_opts={})[source]

Creates a Redis-backed implementation of FeatureStore. For more details about how and why you can use a persistent feature store, see the SDK reference guide.

To use this method, you must first install the redis package. Then, put the object returned by this method into the feature_store property of your client configuration (ldclient.config.Config).

from ldclient.config import Config
from ldclient.integrations import Redis
store = Redis.new_feature_store()
config = Config(feature_store=store)
Parameters:

  • url (str) – the URL of the Redis host; defaults to DEFAULT_URL

  • prefix (str) – a namespace prefix to be prepended to all Redis keys; defaults to DEFAULT_PREFIX

  • caching (CacheConfig) – specifies whether local caching should be enabled and if so, sets the cache properties; defaults to ldclient.feature_store.CacheConfig.default()

  • redis_opts (Dict[str, Any]) – extra options for initializing Redis connection from the url, see redis.connection.ConnectionPool.from_url for more details.

Return type:

CachingStoreWrapper