How to use a bearer token for authentication using Python SDK

Here’s the updated documentation. I assume the SDK would need to be downloaded again?

Updating this thread with some good news! 🎉

v198 of the portal, you can now use bearer tokens for both Python and Go SDKs

https://www.logicmonitor.com/release-notes/v-198-release-notes

And this makes it even easier to use with a regular id/key pair.

Seconding @Stuart Weenig’s questions and implication that bearer tokens with the SDK is less beneficial than with the API. The SDK already abstracts away the auth signature steps.

That all said, our API team has acknowledged that bearer token support in the SDK would be a good addition. I don’t have any further details on if/when this would be included in future roadmaps. 

Right, this is the part I’m talking about. I believe the answer to both is “no”.

# Configure API key authorization: LMv1
configuration = logicmonitor_sdk.Configuration()
configuration.company = 'YOUR_COMPANY'
configuration.access_id = 'YOUR_ACCESS_ID'
configuration.access_key = 'YOUR_ACCESS_KEY'

# create an instance of the API class
api_instance = logicmonitor_sdk.LMApi(logicmonitor_sdk.ApiClient(configuration))

Is there a particular reason you want to use a bearer token? When using the SDK, they’re just as easy except that there are three env variables instead of one.

If he submits the PR, it would get baked into the official repo version of the sdk. At that point it wouldn’t be a workaround, it would be built in. 

Is the python SDK repo available for PRs? Would LM even consider PRs?

@David Bond -- I’m not entirely sure what the pull request process is (of if it even exists) for the Python SDK… but if you want, please feel free to share the steps here. I’m sure others would appreciate an unofficial workaround to hold them over until this is officially added. 

@Joe Williams - sorry that you felt that offering our free library is "shilling", I'll stay out of the Python space in future.

Alternatively, I could provide a pull request for the python SDK.  Adding bearer token support should be trivial to add to the SDK- it was only a couple of lines of code for us.

@Javier -- I have received confirmation from our dev team that, at least currently, bearer tokens are not supported with the SDK.

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