gidgetlab 0.2.0

An async GitLab API library

An asynchronous GitLab API library.

This library is based on gidgethub from Brett Cannon, an async GitHub API library.

I liked the concept and decided to adapt it to the GitLab API. All credit to Brett Cannon for the initial library.

Installation

Gidgetlab is available on PyPI.

python3 -m pip install gidgetlab

Note that the library is still in alpha development stage.

Goals

The key goal is the same as gidgethub (but for GitLab): to provide a base library for the GitLab API which performs no I/O of its own (a sans-I/O library). This allows users to choose whatever HTTP library they prefer while parceling out GitLab-specific details to this library. This base library is then built upon to provide an abstract base class to a cleaner API to work with. Finally, implementations of the abstract base class are provided for asynchronous HTTP libraries for immediate usage.

Alternative libraries

If you think you want a different approach to the GitLab API, GitLab maintains a list of libraries.