Client Session

This module is the first place to begin with your Python programs that use Backend.AI API functions.

The high-level API functions cannot be used alone – you must initiate a client session first because each session provides proxy attributes that represent API functions and run on the session itself.

To achieve this, during initialization session objects internally construct new types by combining the BaseFunction class with the attributes in each API function classes, and makes the new types bound to itself. Creating new types every time when creating a new session instance may look weird, but it is the most convenient way to provide class-methods in the API function classes to work with specific session instances.

When designing your application, please note that session objects are intended to live long following the process’ lifecycle, instead of to be created and disposed whenever making API requests.

class ai.backend.client.session.BaseSession(*, config=None)[source]

The base abstract class for sessions.

abstractmethod close()[source]

Terminates the session and releases underlying resources.

closed

Checks if the session is closed.

Return type

bool

config

The configuration used by this session object.

class ai.backend.client.session.Session(*, config=None)[source]

An API client session that makes API requests synchronously. You may call (almost) all function proxy methods like a plain Python function. It provides a context manager interface to ensure closing of the session upon errors and scope exits.

Admin

The Admin function proxy bound to this session.

Agent

The Agent function proxy bound to this session.

AgentWatcher

The AgentWatcher function proxy bound to this session.

Auth

The Auth function proxy bound to this session.

EtcdConfig

The EtcdConfig function proxy bound to this session.

Domain

The Domain function proxy bound to this session.

Group

The Group function proxy bound to this session.

Image

The Image function proxy bound to this session.

Kernel

The Kernel function proxy bound to this session.

KeyPair

The KeyPair function proxy bound to this session.

Manager

The Manager function proxy bound to this session.

Resource

The Resource function proxy bound to this session.

KeypairResourcePolicy

The KeypairResourcePolicy function proxy bound to this session.

User

The User function proxy bound to this session.

closed

Checks if the session is closed.

Return type

bool

config

The configuration used by this session object.

ScalingGroup

The ScalingGroup function proxy bound to this session.

VFolder

The VFolder function proxy bound to this session.

close()[source]

Terminates the session. It schedules the close() coroutine of the underlying aiohttp session and then enqueues a sentinel object to indicate termination. Then it waits until the worker thread to self-terminate by joining.

worker_thread

The thread that internally executes the asynchronous implementations of the given API functions.

class ai.backend.client.session.AsyncSession(*, config=None)[source]

An API client session that makes API requests asynchronously using coroutines. You may call all function proxy methods like a coroutine. It provides an async context manager interface to ensure closing of the session upon errors and scope exits.

closed

Checks if the session is closed.

Return type

bool

config

The configuration used by this session object.

Admin

The Admin function proxy bound to this session.

Agent

The Agent function proxy bound to this session.

AgentWatcher

The AgentWatcher function proxy bound to this session.

Auth

The Auth function proxy bound to this session.

EtcdConfig

The EtcdConfig function proxy bound to this session.

Group

The Group function proxy bound to this session.

Image

The Image function proxy bound to this session.

Kernel

The Kernel function proxy bound to this session.

KeyPair

The KeyPair function proxy bound to this session.

Manager

The Manager function proxy bound to this session.

Resource

The Resource function proxy bound to this session.

KeypairResourcePolicy

The KeypairResourcePolicy function proxy bound to this session.

User

The User function proxy bound to this session.

ScalingGroup

The ScalingGroup function proxy bound to this session.

VFolder

The VFolder function proxy bound to this session.

await close()[source]

Terminates the session and releases underlying resources.