forge-dashboard-sdk-python

A Python client for forge-dashboard's REST API, generated from its OpenAPI spec with openapi-python-client. It saves you from hand-rolling HTTP requests, auth and retries against the API yourself.

Requirements

• Python 3.12 or later.
• A running forge-dashboard instance.
• A personal API token for that instance (see "Authentication" below) — every endpoint except health, get_version and the two webhook receivers needs one.

Installation

pip install forge-dashboard-sdk

Pin an exact version in your own pyproject.toml/requirements.txt rather than tracking the latest release in anything but a quick trial.

Authentication

forge-dashboard accepts either a browser's passkey session cookie or a personal API token — Authorization: Bearer <token> — as an alternative that needs no WebAuthn ceremony. This SDK only speaks the token half, the one a script can actually use. Mint one by signing into the dashboard once and calling POST /api/tokens, then pass it to ForgeDashboardClient or set FORGE_DASHBOARD_API_TOKEN in the environment:

import os
from forge_dashboard import ForgeDashboardClient

client = ForgeDashboardClient(
    "https://forge-dashboard.example.com",
    api_token=os.environ.get("FORGE_DASHBOARD_API_TOKEN"),
)

Usage

health and get_version need no token and are good first calls to prove the client reaches the server at all:

from forge_dashboard import ForgeDashboardClient

with ForgeDashboardClient("https://forge-dashboard.example.com") as client:
    version = client.get_version()
    print("server version:", version.version)

The aggregated dashboard needs a token, and demonstrates error handling:

import os
from forge_dashboard import APIError, ForgeDashboardClient, decode_error
from forge_dashboard._generated.api.dashboard import get_dashboard

client = ForgeDashboardClient(
    "https://forge-dashboard.example.com",
    api_token=os.environ.get("FORGE_DASHBOARD_API_TOKEN"),
)

try:
    response = get_dashboard.sync_detailed(client=client.raw)
    if error := decode_error(response):
        raise error
    for pr in response.parsed.pull_requests:
        print(pr.title, pr.ci)
except APIError as e:
    if e.status_code == 401:
        raise SystemExit("API token expired or invalid") from e
    raise

Every other operation follows the generated client's pattern — forge_dashboard._generated.api.<tag>.<operation>.sync_detailed(client=client.raw, ...) (or asyncio_detailed for async) returns a typed Response whose .parsed field holds the decoded body for a documented status code. Use decode_error to turn any error response into a forge_dashboard.APIError uniformly:

from forge_dashboard import decode_error
from forge_dashboard._generated.api.dashboard import get_dashboard

response = get_dashboard.sync_detailed(client=client.raw)
if error := decode_error(response):
    raise error
dashboard = response.parsed

The client retries a 429 or 5xx response with exponential backoff and jitter (honoring a server-sent Retry-After), and never retries any other 4xx. Tune it by passing a forge_dashboard.RetryConfig as retry=, or swap the underlying httpx.Client/httpx.AsyncClient entirely with httpx_client=/httpx_async_client=.

Regenerating the client

See CONTRIBUTING.md — the generated code is pinned to a specific forge-dashboard commit and shouldn't drift from it silently.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for building, testing and the release process.

License

MIT — a permissive license for the client, independent of forge-dashboard's own AGPL-3.0.