airbyte-lib

airbyte-lib is a library that allows to run Airbyte syncs embedded into any Python application, without the need to run Airbyte server.

Development

• Make sure Poetry is installed.
• Run poetry install
• For examples, check out the examples folder. They can be run via poetry run python examples/<example file>
• Unit tests and type checks can be run via poetry run pytest

Release

• In your PR:
  • Bump the version in pyproject.toml
  • Add a changelog entry to the table below
• Once the PR is merged, go to Github and trigger the Publish AirbyteLib Manually workflow. This will publish the new version to PyPI.

Secrets Management

AirbyteLib can auto-import secrets from the following sources:

1. Environment variables.
2. Google Colab secrets.
3. Manual entry via getpass.

Note: Additional secret store options may be supported in the future. More info here.

Retrieving Secrets

from airbyte_lib import get_secret, SecretSource

source = get_connection("source-github")
source.set_config(
   "credentials": {
      "personal_access_token": get_secret("GITHUB_PERSONAL_ACCESS_TOKEN"),
   }
)

The get_secret() function accepts an optional source argument of enum type SecretSource. If omitted or set to SecretSource.ANY, AirbyteLib will search all available secrets sources. If source is set to a specific source, then only that source will be checked. If a list of SecretSource entries is passed, then the sources will be checked using the provided ordering.

By default, AirbyteLib will prompt the user for any requested secrets that are not provided via other secret managers. You can disable this prompt by passing prompt=False to get_secret().

Versioning

Versioning follows Semantic Versioning. For new features, bump the minor version. For bug fixes, bump the patch version. For pre-releases, append dev.N to the version. For example, 0.1.0dev.1 is the first pre-release of the 0.1.0 version.

Documentation

Regular documentation lives in the /docs folder. Based on the doc strings of public methods, we generate API documentation using pdoc. To generate the documentation, run poetry run generate-docs. The documentation will be generated in the docs/generate folder. This needs to be done manually when changing the public interface of the library.

A unit test validates the documentation is up to date.

Connector compatibility

To make a connector compatible with airbyte-lib, the following requirements must be met:

• The connector must be a Python package, with a pyproject.toml or a setup.py file.
• In the package, there must be a run.py file that contains a run method. This method should read arguments from the command line, and run the connector with them, outputting messages to stdout.
• The pyproject.toml or setup.py file must specify a command line entry point for the run method called source-<connector name>. This is usually done by adding a console_scripts section to the pyproject.toml file, or a entry_points section to the setup.py file. For example:

[tool.poetry.scripts]
source-my-connector = "my_connector.run:run"

setup(
    ...
    entry_points={
        'console_scripts': [
            'source-my-connector = my_connector.run:run',
        ],
    },
    ...
)

To publish a connector to PyPI, specify the pypi section in the metadata.yaml file. For example:

data:
 # ...
 remoteRegistries:
   pypi:
     enabled: true
     packageName: "airbyte-source-my-connector"

Validating source connectors

To validate a source connector for compliance, the airbyte-lib-validate-source script can be used. It can be used like this:

airbyte-lib-validate-source —connector-dir . -—sample-config secrets/config.json

The script will install the python package in the provided directory, and run the connector against the provided config. The config should be a valid JSON file, with the same structure as the one that would be provided to the connector in Airbyte. The script will exit with a non-zero exit code if the connector fails to run.

For a more lightweight check, the --validate-install-only flag can be used. This will only check that the connector can be installed and returns a spec, no sample config required.

Changelog