mstr-rest-requests

A straightforward sync and async client for the MicroStrategy REST API, built on httpx.

Full documentation: https://mstr-rest-requests.readthedocs.io/

Installation

Requires Python 3.10 or later.

pip install mstr-rest-requests

Extras

To use the built-in credential providers, install the corresponding extra:

pip install mstr-rest-requests[aws]    # AWS Secrets Manager & SSM Parameter Store
pip install mstr-rest-requests[azure]  # Azure Key Vault
pip install mstr-rest-requests[gcp]    # Google Cloud Secret Manager
pip install mstr-rest-requests[requests]  # Deprecated requests-based sessions (mstr.requests.compat)

Quick start

from mstr.requests import AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession

with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(
    base_url="https://demo.microstrategy.com/MicroStrategyLibrary/api/",
    username="dave",
    password="hellodave",
) as session:
    projects = session.get("projects").json()

The session automatically logs in when the context manager is entered and logs out when it exits.

Authentication

Four authentication modes are supported. In every case you can use either the context-manager style shown above or the manual approach shown below.

Standard (username and password)

from mstr.requests import MSTRRESTSession

session = MSTRRESTSession(
    base_url="https://demo.microstrategy.com/MicroStrategyLibrary/api/"
)
session.login(username="dave", password="hellodave")

Identity token (delegation)

Context manager:

with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(
    base_url="https://.../api/",
    identity_token="supersecretidentitytoken",
) as session:
    ...

Manual:

session.delegate(identity_token="supersecretidentitytoken")

API key (trusted authentication)

Context manager (use the api_key parameter; supports callables for vaults):

with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(
    base_url="https://.../api/",
    api_key="your-api-key",
) as session:
    ...

Manual:

session.login(api_key="your-api-key")

Anonymous

Context manager:

with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(base_url="https://.../api/") as session:
    ...

Manual:

session.login()

Credential providers

Every credential parameter on AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession -- including base_url -- accepts either a plain string or a zero-argument callable that returns a string (the Credential type). Callables are resolved lazily when the context manager is entered, not when the session is constructed. You can import the type alias from mstr.requests for type hints.

This makes it easy to pull credentials from vaults, environment helpers, or any other source at connect time:

from mstr.requests import AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession

with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(
    base_url="https://demo.microstrategy.com/MicroStrategyLibrary/api/",
    username=lambda: get_username_from_somewhere(),
    password=lambda: get_password_from_somewhere(),
) as session:
    ...

Environment variables

No extra needed. env() reads the variable each time it is resolved and raises MissingCredentialException if it is unset or empty (unless you pass default=):

from mstr.requests.credentials.env import env

with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(
    base_url=env("MSTR_BASE_URL"),
    username=env("MSTR_USERNAME"),
    password=env("MSTR_PASSWORD"),
) as session:
    ...

AWS Secrets Manager

Install with pip install mstr-rest-requests[aws].

Single-value secrets

Use secrets_manager to create a callable for a single secret value:

from mstr.requests import AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession
from mstr.requests.credentials.aws import secrets_manager

with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(
    base_url="https://demo.microstrategy.com/MicroStrategyLibrary/api/",
    username=secrets_manager("my-secret-id", key="username"),
    password=secrets_manager("my-secret-id", key="password"),
) as session:
    ...

Multi-field secrets

When a single secret contains all connection details as a JSON object, use SecretsManagerSecret to fetch the secret once and share it across fields:

from mstr.requests import AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession
from mstr.requests.credentials.aws import SecretsManagerSecret

secret = SecretsManagerSecret("my-secret-id")

with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(
    base_url=secret.field("base_url"),
    username=secret.field("username"),
    password=secret.field("password"),
) as session:
    ...

The secret is only fetched on the first field resolution, and the result is cached for all subsequent fields.

AWS SSM Parameter Store

Also covered by the aws extra (pip install mstr-rest-requests[aws]).

Individual parameters

from mstr.requests.credentials.aws import parameter_store

with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(
    base_url=parameter_store("/myapp/mstr/base_url"),
    username=parameter_store("/myapp/mstr/username"),
    password=parameter_store("/myapp/mstr/password"),
) as session:
    ...

Grouped parameters with caching

ParameterStoreValues caches each parameter after the first fetch so repeated resolutions of the same name do not make extra API calls:

from mstr.requests.credentials.aws import ParameterStoreValues

params = ParameterStoreValues()

with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(
    base_url=params.parameter("/myapp/mstr/base_url"),
    username=params.parameter("/myapp/mstr/username"),
    password=params.parameter("/myapp/mstr/password"),
) as session:
    ...

Azure Key Vault

Install with pip install mstr-rest-requests[azure]. Authentication uses DefaultAzureCredential which supports managed identity, environment variables, Azure CLI, and more.

Single-value secrets

from mstr.requests.credentials.azure import key_vault

with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(
    base_url="https://demo.microstrategy.com/MicroStrategyLibrary/api/",
    username=key_vault("https://my-vault.vault.azure.net/", "mstr-username"),
    password=key_vault("https://my-vault.vault.azure.net/", "mstr-password"),
) as session:
    ...

Multi-field secrets

from mstr.requests.credentials.azure import KeyVaultSecret

secret = KeyVaultSecret("https://my-vault.vault.azure.net/", "mstr-connection")

with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(
    base_url=secret.field("base_url"),
    username=secret.field("username"),
    password=secret.field("password"),
) as session:
    ...

Google Cloud Secret Manager

Install with pip install mstr-rest-requests[gcp]. Authentication uses Application Default Credentials.

Single-value secrets

from mstr.requests.credentials.gcp import secret_manager

with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(
    base_url="https://demo.microstrategy.com/MicroStrategyLibrary/api/",
    username=secret_manager("my-project", "mstr-username"),
    password=secret_manager("my-project", "mstr-password"),
) as session:
    ...

Multi-field secrets

from mstr.requests.credentials.gcp import SecretManagerSecret

secret = SecretManagerSecret("my-project", "mstr-connection")

with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(
    base_url=secret.field("base_url"),
    username=secret.field("username"),
    password=secret.field("password"),
) as session:
    ...

Session handling

Checking session state

session.has_session()      # True if an auth token is present
session.get_session_info() # GET /sessions
session.extend_session()   # PUT /sessions (prolongs the session)
session.get_userinfo()     # GET /sessions/userInfo

Serialisation and restoration

A session can be serialised to JSON and later restored, which is useful for passing sessions between processes:

data = session.json()

# Later, in another process:
restored = MSTRRESTSession.from_dict(json.loads(data))

The saved data holds the live auth token and session cookies, so treat it as a secret. Restored cookies are sent only to the base_url host.

Projects

Pass a project name as project= and the session looks up its ID, fetching the project list the first time (and again for a name it doesn't know):

response = session.get("reports/abc123", project="My Project")
project_id = session.resolve_project_id("My Project")

Long-running jobs

AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession (and its async counterpart) can keep a session alive for long jobs:

• relogin=True -- when a request fails because the session expired (ERR009), log in again with freshly resolved credentials and send the request once more.
• keepalive_interval=240 -- call extend_session() every 240 seconds in the background while the with block runs.

with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(
    base_url="https://your-server/MicroStrategyLibrary/api/",
    username="dave",
    password=env("MSTR_PASSWORD"),
    relogin=True,
    keepalive_interval=240,
) as session:
    ...

Identity tokens

create_identity_token() returns a token another process can use to get its own session as the same user, without the user's credentials:

token = session.create_identity_token()

# In the other process:
with AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(base_url=..., identity_token=token) as s:
    ...

Making requests

MSTRRESTSession wraps an httpx.Client (available as session.client). Its request methods take the usual httpx arguments (params, json, headers, timeout, ...) plus two extra keyword arguments:

• include_auth (default True) -- attach the X-MSTR-AuthToken header. The token is only sent to the scheme, host and port of base_url; absolute URLs on other hosts, and redirects to them, go without it.
• project_id -- attach the X-MSTR-ProjectID header for project-scoped endpoints.
• project -- the same, from a project name.

response = session.get("reports/abc123", project_id="B7CA92...")

Retries

Pass retries= to retry requests that fail to connect, and (for GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT and DELETE) ones that time out, hit a network error or get a 502, 503 or 504. The wait starts at backoff_factor seconds (default 0.5) and doubles each time, up to 60 seconds; a longer Retry-After from the server is honoured.

session = MSTRRESTSession(base_url=..., retries=3, backoff_factor=1)

Logging

The library logs to the mstr.requests logger. At DEBUG it logs each request's method, URL, status and time taken; retries, re-logins and failed keep-alives are logged at WARNING or INFO. Headers, bodies, tokens and passwords are never logged, and any user:password@ in a URL is removed.

logging.getLogger("mstr.requests").setLevel(logging.DEBUG)

Testing your code

Pass an httpx.MockTransport as transport= to run your code against a fake server; see the testing guide.

Extra constructor arguments (verify, proxy, limits, http2, transport, ...) are passed to the httpx.Client. Unlike httpx's own defaults, there is no timeout unless you pass timeout=, and redirects are followed.

Async usage

AsyncMSTRRESTSession and AsyncAuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession mirror the synchronous classes method for method and work with asyncio and trio:

import asyncio

from mstr.requests import AsyncAuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession


async def main():
    async with AsyncAuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession(
        base_url="https://demo.microstrategy.com/MicroStrategyLibrary/api/",
        username="dave",
        password="hellodave",
    ) as session:
        await session.load_projects()
        project_id = session.get_project_id("My Project")
        responses = await asyncio.gather(
            session.get("reports/abc123", project_id=project_id),
            session.get("reports/def456", project_id=project_id),
        )


asyncio.run(main())

Differences from the synchronous classes:

• Methods are coroutines and return httpx.Response objects.
• Credentials can also be async def callables. Plain callables, including the built-in credential providers, run in a worker thread so they don't block the event loop.
• The session wraps an httpx.AsyncClient, available as session.client, with the same constructor arguments and defaults as the synchronous session.
• Use async with (or await session.aclose()) to release connections.
• to_dict() / from_dict() use the same format as the synchronous session, so a session can be handed between the two.

Upgrading from 1.x

Since 2.0 the sessions are built on httpx instead of requests. The class names, arguments and methods are the same, so most code keeps working. The differences:

• Methods return httpx.Response. Use response.is_success instead of response.ok. raise_for_status() raises httpx.HTTPStatusError, and also raises for 3xx responses.
• Request arguments follow httpx: follow_redirects instead of allow_redirects, and content= for raw bodies.
• The session wraps an httpx.Client (session.client) rather than being a requests.Session. Configure TLS, proxies, retries and connection limits with constructor arguments (verify, proxy, transport, limits) instead of session.mount() and adapters.
• Relative URLs are always appended to base_url, so a leading / or a missing trailing slash no longer drops the /api segment.
• Use with or session.close() to release connections.
• Saved sessions (to_dict() / json()) from 1.x load unchanged.

If you need the 1.x behaviour while you migrate, the requests-based classes are still available, with a DeprecationWarning, until 3.0:

pip install mstr-rest-requests[requests]

from mstr.requests.compat import AuthenticatedMSTRRESTSession

Exceptions

All API error responses are translated into typed exceptions:

from mstr.requests.rest.exceptions import LoginFailureException

Error responses without a JSON body (for example a proxy's HTML error page) are returned as normal. Pass raise_on_http_error=True when creating the session to raise MSTRHTTPError for those too. Exceptions raised for a response carry its status_code and the response.

License

Apache 2.0 -- see LICENSE for details.