python-gitlab relies on requests.Session
objects to perform all the HTTP requests to the GitLab servers.
You can provide a custom session to create gitlab.Gitlab
objects:
import gitlab import requests session = requests.Session() gl = gitlab.Gitlab(session=session) # or when instantiating from configuration files gl = gitlab.Gitlab.from_config('somewhere', ['/tmp/gl.cfg'], session=session)
Reference: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/advanced/#session-objects
Context manager¶You can use Gitlab
objects as context managers. This makes sure that the requests.Session
object associated with a Gitlab
instance is always properly closed when you exit a with
block:
with gitlab.Gitlab(host, token) as gl: gl.statistics.get()
Warning
The context manager will also close the custom Session
object you might have used to build the Gitlab
instance.
python-gitlab reads credentials from .netrc
files via the requests
backend only if you do not provide any other type of authentication yourself.
If you’d like to disable reading netrc files altogether, you can follow Using a custom session and explicitly set trust_env=False
as described in the requests
documentation.
import gitlab import requests session = requests.Session(trust_env=False) gl = gitlab.Gitlab(session=session)
Reference: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/authentication/#netrc-authentication
Proxy configuration¶python-gitlab accepts the standard http_proxy
, https_proxy
and no_proxy
environment variables via the requests
backend. Uppercase variables are also supported.
For more granular control, you can also explicitly set proxies by Using a custom session as described in the requests
documentation.
Reference: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/advanced/#proxies
SSL certificate verification¶python-gitlab relies on the CA certificate bundle in the certifi
package that comes with the requests library.
If you need python-gitlab to use your system CA store instead, you can provide the path to the CA bundle in the REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE
environment variable.
Reference: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/advanced/#ssl-cert-verification
Client side certificate¶The following sample illustrates how to use a client-side certificate:
import gitlab import requests session = requests.Session() session.cert = ('/path/to/client.cert', '/path/to/client.key') gl = gitlab.Gitlab(url, token, api_version=4, session=session)
Reference: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/advanced/#client-side-certificates
Rate limits¶python-gitlab obeys the rate limit of the GitLab server by default. On receiving a 429 response (Too Many Requests), python-gitlab sleeps for the amount of time in the Retry-After header that GitLab sends back. If GitLab does not return a response with the Retry-After header, python-gitlab will perform an exponential backoff.
If you don’t want to wait, you can disable the rate-limiting feature, by supplying the obey_rate_limit
argument.
import gitlab import requests gl = gitlab.Gitlab(url, token, api_version=4) gl.projects.list(get_all=True, obey_rate_limit=False)
If you do not disable the rate-limiting feature, you can supply a custom value for max_retries
; by default, this is set to 10. To retry without bound when throttled, you can set this parameter to -1. This parameter is ignored if obey_rate_limit
is set to False
.
import gitlab import requests gl = gitlab.Gitlab(url, token, api_version=4) gl.projects.list(get_all=True, max_retries=12)
Warning
You will get an Exception, if you then go over the rate limit of your GitLab instance.
Transient errors¶GitLab server can sometimes return a transient HTTP error. python-gitlab can automatically retry in such case, when retry_transient_errors
argument is set to True
. When enabled, HTTP error codes 500 (Internal Server Error), 502 (502 Bad Gateway), 503 (Service Unavailable), 504 (Gateway Timeout), and Cloudflare errors (520-530) are retried.
Additionally, HTTP error code 409 (Conflict) is retried if the reason is a Resource lock.
It will retry until reaching the max_retries
value. By default, retry_transient_errors
is set to False
and an exception is raised for these errors.
import gitlab import requests gl = gitlab.Gitlab(url, token, api_version=4) gl.projects.list(get_all=True, retry_transient_errors=True)
The default retry_transient_errors
can also be set on the Gitlab
object and overridden by individual API calls.
import gitlab import requests gl = gitlab.Gitlab(url, token, api_version=4, retry_transient_errors=True) gl.projects.list(get_all=True) # retries due to default value gl.projects.list(get_all=True, retry_transient_errors=False) # does not retryTimeout¶
python-gitlab will by default use the timeout
option from its configuration for all requests. This is passed downwards to the requests
module at the time of making the HTTP request. However if you would like to override the global timeout parameter for a particular call, you can provide the timeout
parameter to that API invocation:
import gitlab gl = gitlab.Gitlab(url, token, api_version=4) gl.projects.import_github(ACCESS_TOKEN, 123456, "root", timeout=120.0)Typing¶
Generally, python-gitlab
is a fully typed package. However, currently you may still need to do some type narrowing on your own, such as for nested API responses and Union
return types. For example:
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING import gitlab gl = gitlab.Gitlab(url, token, api_version=4) license = gl.get_license() if TYPE_CHECKING: assert isinstance(license["plan"], str)
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