promoted-python-delivery-client 2.1.1

Promoted.ai Python Delivery Client

promoted-python-delivery-client

Python client SDK for the Promoted.ai Delivery API

Features

• Demonstrates and implements the recommended practices and data types for calling Promoted.ai's Delivery API.
• Client-side position assignment and paging when not using results from Delivery API, for example when logging only or as part of an experiment control.

Creating a PromotedDeliveryClient

We recommend creating a PromotedDeliveryClient in a separate file so it can be reused. It is thread-safe and intended to be used as a singleton, leveraging the well-known Python requests library for calling Promoted.ai's services.

PromotedClient.java

client = PromotedDeliveryClient(delivery_endpoint=delivery_endpoint,
                                delivery_api_key=delivery_api_key,
                                delivery_timeout_millis=250,
                                metrics_endpoint=metrics_endpoint,
                                metrics_api_key=metrics_api_key,
                                metrics_timeout_millis=1000)

Client Configuration Parameters

Name	Type	Description
delivery_endpoint	str	API endpoint for Promoted.ai's Delivery API
delivery_api_key	str	API key used in the x-api-key header for Promoted.ai's Delivery API
delivery_timeout_millis	int	Timeout on the Delivery API call. Defaults to 250.
metrics_endpoint	str	API endpoint for Promoted.ai's Metrics API
metrics_api_key	str	API key used in the x-api-key header for Promoted.ai's Metrics API
metrics_timeout_millis	int	Timeout on the Metrics API call. Defaults to 3000.
warmup	bool	Option to warm up the HTTP connection pool at initialization, defaults to False.
thread_pool_size	int	Number of threads to use in a ThreadPoolExecutor to make background calls for metrics and shadow traffic, defaults to 5.
apply_treatment_checker	func[[CohortMembership], bool]	Optional function called during delivery, accepts an experiment and returns a boolean indicating whether the request should be considered part of the control group (False) or in the treatment arm of an experiment (True). If not set, the default behavior of checking the experiement arm is applied.
max_request_insertions	int	Maximum number of request insertions that will be passed to (and returned from) Delivery API. Defaults to 1000.
shadow_traffic_delivery_rate	float between 0 and 1	rate = [0,1] of traffic that gets directed to Delivery API as "shadow traffic". Only applies to cases where Delivery API is not called. Defaults to 0 (no shadow traffic).
blocking_shadow_traffic	bool	Option to make shadow traffic a blocking (as opposed to background) call to delivery API, defaults to False.
perform_checks	bool	Performs some validation that request fields are filled properly. These checks take time so this should be turned off once a request is satisfactory.

Data Types

UserInfo

Basic information about the request user.

Field Name	Type	Optional?	Description
user_id	str	Yes	The platform user id, cleared from Promoted logs.
anon_user_id	str	Yes	A different user id (presumably a UUID) disconnected from the platform user id (e.g. an "anonymous user id"), good for working with unauthenticated users or implementing right-to-be-forgotten.
is_internal_user	bool	Yes	If this user is a test user or not, defaults to false.

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CohortMembership

Useful fields for experimentation during the delivery phase.

Field Name	Type	Optional?	Description
arm	str	Yes	'CONTROL' or one of the TREATMENT values ('TREATMENT', 'TREATMENT1', etc.).
cohort_id	str	Yes	Name of the cohort (e.g. "LOCAL_HOLDOUT" etc.)

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Properties

Properties bag. Can create using a Dict[str, object]. Has the JSON structure:

  "struct": {
    "product": {
      "id": "product3",
      "title": "Product 3",
      "url": "www.mymarket.com/p/3"
      // other key-value pairs...
    }
  }

---

Insertion

Content being served at a certain position.

Field Name	Type	Optional?	Description
user_info	UserInfo	Yes	The user info structure.
insertion_id	str	Yes	Generated by the SDK (do not set)
content_id	str	No	Identifier for the content to be ranked, must be set.
retrieval_rank	int	Yes	Optional original ranking of this content item.
retrieval_score	float	Yes	Optional original quality score of this content item.
properties	Properties	Yes	Any additional custom properties to associate. For v1 integrations, it is fine not to fill in all the properties.

Insertions can be specified in a more compact manner using the request-level insertion_matrix_headers and insertion_matrix fields. This can improve latency when there are many insertions or many properties.

For example, instead of defining a request like so:

insertion = [
  Insertion(content_id="28835", properties=Properties(struct={"price": 1.23})),
  Insertion(content_id="37796", properties=Properties(struct={"price": 0})),
  Insertion(content_id="49815"),
]
req = Request(insertion=insertion, ...)

It could be defined as:

insertion_matrix_headers = ["contentId", "price"]
insertion_matrix = [
  ["28835", 1.23],
  ["37796", 0],
  ["49815", None],
]
req = Request(insertion_matrix_headers=insertion_matrix_headers,
              insertion_matrix=insertion_matrix,
              ...
)

Things to note:

• Properties with nested structs should concatenate paths with a . (period).
• Properties which don't exist for an insertion must be specified as None.

The perform_checks client parameter can help ensure correct usage.

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Size

User's screen dimensions.

Field Name	Type	Optional?	Description
width	int	No	Screen width
height	int	No	Screen height

---

Screen

State of the screen including scaling.

Field Name	Type	Optional?	Description
size	Size	Yes	Screen size
scale	float	Yes	Current screen scaling factor

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ClientHints

Alternative to user-agent strings. See https://raw.githubusercontent.com/snowplow/iglu-central/master/schemas/org.ietf/http_client_hints/jsonschema/1-0-0

Field Name	Type	Optional?	Description
is_mobile	bool	Yes	Mobile flag
brand	ClientBrandHint[]	Yes
architecture	str	Yes
model	str	Yes
platform	str	Yes
platform_version	str	Yes
ua_full_version	str	Yes

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ClientBrandHint

See https://raw.githubusercontent.com/snowplow/iglu-central/master/schemas/org.ietf/http_client_hints/jsonschema/1-0-0

Field Name	Type	Optional?	Description
brand	str	Yes	Mobile flag
version	str	Yes

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Location

Information about the user's location.

Field Name	Type	Optional?	Description
latitude	float	No	Location latitude
longitude	float	No	Location longitude
accuracy_in_meters	int	Yes	Location accuracy if available

---

Browser

Information about the user's browser.

Field Name	Type	Optional?	Description
user_agent	str	Yes	Browser user agent string
viewport_size	Size	Yes	Size of the browser viewport
client_hints	ClientHints	Yes	HTTP client hints structure

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Device

Information about the user's device.

Field Name	Type	Optional?	Description
device_type	one of (UNKNOWN_DEVICE_TYPE, DESKTOP, MOBILE, TABLET)	Yes	Type of device
brand	str	Yes	"Apple, "google", Samsung", etc.
manufacturer	str	Yes	"Apple", "HTC", Motorola", "HUAWEI", etc.
identifier	str	Yes	Android: android.os.Build.MODEL; iOS: iPhoneXX,YY, etc.
screen	Screen	Yes	Screen dimensions
ip_address	str	Yes	Originating IP address
location	Location	Yes	Location information
browser	Browser	Yes	Browser information

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Paging

Describes a page of insertions

Field Name	Type	Optional?	Description
size	int	Yes	Size of the page being requested
offset	int	Yes	Page offset

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Request

A request for content insertions.

Field Name	Type	Optional?	Description
user_info	UserInfo	Yes	The user info structure.
requestId	str	Yes	Generated by the SDK when needed (do not set)
use_case	str	Yes	One of the use case enum values or strings, i.e. 'FEED', 'SEARCH', etc.
properties	Properties	Yes	Any additional custom properties to associate.
paging	Paging	Yes	Paging parameters
device	Device	Yes	Device information (as available)
disable_personalization	bool	Yes	If true, disables personalized inputs into Delivery algorithm.

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DeliveryRequest

Input to deliver, returns ranked insertions for display.

Field Name	Type	Optional?	Description
request	Request	No	The underlying request for content, including all candidate insertions with content ids.
experiment	CohortMembership	Yes	A cohort to evaluation in experimentation.
only_log	bool	Yes	Defaults to false. Set to true to log the request as the CONTROL arm of an experiment, not call Delivery API, but rather deliver paged insertions from the request.
insertion_start	int	Yes	Start index in the request insertions in the list of ALL insertions. See Pages of Request Insertions for more details.

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DeliveryResponse

Output of deliver, includes the ranked insertions for you to display.

Field Name	Type	Optional?	Description
response	Response	No	The reponse from Delivery API, which includes the insertions. These are from Delivery API (when deliver was called, i.e. we weren't either only-log or part of an experiment) or the input insertions (when the other conditions don't hold).
client_request_id	str	Yes	Client-generated request id sent to Delivery API and may be useful for logging and debugging. You may fill this in yourself if you have a suitable id, otherwise the SDK will generate one.
execution_server	one of 'API' or 'SDK'	Yes	Indicates if response insertions on a delivery request came from the API or the SDK.

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PromotedDeliveryClient

Method	Input	Output	Description
deliver	DeliveryRequest	DeliveryResponse	Makes a request (subject to experimentation) to Delivery API for insertions, which are then returned.

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Calling the Delivery API

Let's say the previous code looks like this:

def get_products(req: ProductRequest):
    products = ...; // Logic to get products from DB, apply filtering, etc.
    sendSuccessToClient(products)

We might modify to something like this:

def get_products(req: ProductRequest):
    products = ...; // Logic to get products from DB, apply filtering, etc.

    insertion: List[Insertion] = []

    # Keep a map for reordering
    product_map: Dict[str, Product] = {}

    for product in range(products):
        ins = Insertion(content_id=product.product_id)
        insertion.append(ins)
        product_map[product.product_id] = product

    req = Request(insertion=insertion,
                  user_info=UserInfo(anon_user_id="abc"),
                  paging=Paging(size=100, offset=0))

    delivery_req = DeliveryRequest(request=req)

    resp = client.deliver(delivery_req)

    ranked_products: List[Product] = []
    for ins in range(resp.response.insertion):
        ranked_products.append(product_map[ins.content_id]))

    sendSuccessToClient(ranked_products)

Pages of Request Insertions

Clients can send a subset of all request insertions to Promoted in Delivery API's request.insertion array. The insertion_start property specifies the start index of the array request.insertion in the list of ALL request insertions.

request.paging.offset should be set to the zero-based position in ALL request insertions (not the relative position in the request.insertion array).

Examples

• If there are 10 items and all 10 items are in request.insertion, then insertion_start=0.
• If there are 10,000 items and the first 500 items are on request.insertion, then insertionStart=0.
• If there are 10,000 items and we want to send items [500,1000) on request.insertion, then insertionStart=500.
• If there are 10,000 items and we want to send the last page [9500,10000) on request.insertion, then insertionStart=9500.

insertion_start is required to be less than paging.offset or else a ValueError will result.

Additional details: https://docs.promoted.ai/docs/ranking-requests#sending-even-more-request-insertions

Logging only

You can use deliver but add a only_log: True parameter to the DeliveryRequest.

Position

• Do not set the insertion position field in client code. The SDK and Delivery API will set it when deliver is called.

Experiments

Promoted supports the ability to run Promoted-side experiments. Sometimes it is useful to run an experiment in your where promoted-java-delivery-client is integrated (e.g. you want arm assignments to match your own internal experiment arm assignments).

# Create a small config indicating the experiment is a 50-50 experiment where 10% of the users are activated.
experiment_config = create_50_50_two_arm_experiment_config("promoted-v1", 5, 5)

def get_products(req: ProductRequest):
    products = ...; // Logic to get products from DB, apply filtering, etc.

    # This gets the anonymous user id from the request.
    anon_user_id = get_anon_user_id(req)
    experiment_membership = experimentConfig.check_membership(anon_user_id)

    req = Request(insertion=insertion,
                  user_info=UserInfo(anon_user_id="abc"),
                  paging=Paging(size=100, offset=0))

    # If experimentActivated can be false (e.g. only 5% of users get put into an experiment) and
    # you want the non-activated behavior to not call Delivery API, then you need to specify onlyLog to false.
    # This is common during ramp up.  `onlyLog` can be dropped if it's always false.
    #
    # Example:
    # `onlyLog: experimentMembership is None`
    deliveryRequest = DeliveryRequest(request=req, experiment=experiment_membership)

    response = client.deliver(delivery_request)
    # ...

Here's an example using custom arm assignment logic (not using twoArmExperimentConfig5050).

    # If you already use an experiment framework, it'll have the ability to return
    # (1) if a user is activated into an experiment and
    # (2) which arm to perform.
    #
    experimentMembership: CohortMembership = None
    if is_user_activated(experimentName, anon_user_id):
        in_treatment = is_user_in_treatment_arm(experiment_name, anon_user_id)

        # Only log if the user is activated into the experiment.
        experiment_membership = CohortMembership(cohort_id=experiment_name,
                                                 arm=(CohortArm.TREATMENT if in_treatment else CohortArm.CONTROL);

SDK Development

Prereqs

• wheel
• setuptools
• twine
• bump2version

Development

• Follow the setup script from the GitHub Action.
• Build wheel: python setup.py bdist_wheel
• Install locally: pip install dist/promoted_python_delivery_client-2.1.1-py3-none-any.whl --force-reinstall
• Try it out:
  • See the scripts/ directory.
  • Create a scripts/.env file with a few variables:

    DELIVERY_ENDPOINT=<GET ME FROM PROMOTED>
    DELIVERY_API_KEY=<GET ME FROM PROMOTED>
    METRICS_ENDPOINT=<GET ME FROM PROMOTED>
    METRICS_API_KEY=<GET ME FROM PROMOTED>
    

  • Invoke (for example) python3 scripts/call_delivery.py.

Testing

Unit tests

• Use pytest:
  • pytest tests/

Release

• Create a development branch. The following command will create a commit with the version update.
• bump2version [major|minor|patch]. These are the strings (e.g. major). This is not the version number.
• Send a pull request and merge.
• Clear dist: rm -rf dist/
• Build wheel: python setup.py bdist_wheel
• python3 -m twine upload dist/*
  • PyPi
  • You should use an account with MFA setup. Follow the API token UI for the username and password. Username is __token__. Password is the API key from the UI.
  • FUTURE: Do this with a Github Action.

Dependencies

• dataclasses-json -- flexible JSON serialization and deserialization of Python dataclasses. One key feature we use is the ability to omit None's (nulls) from request JSON to decrease payload size.
• requests -- defacto standard HTTP library used to call Promoted APIs.