edgecontext.py

Documentation: https://reddit-edgecontext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Services deep within the backend often need to know information about the client that originated the request, such as what user is authenticated or what country they're in. Baseplate services can get this information from the edge context which is automatically propagated along with calls between services.

This library provides a Thrift specification of an edge context payload and a corresponding implementation of the EdgeContextFactory interface from Baseplate.py.

Usage

Add the EdgeContextFactory to application startup:

from baseplate import Baseplate
from baseplate.lib.secrets import secrets_store_from_config
from reddit_edgecontext import EdgeContextFactory


def make_processor(app_config):
    secrets = secrets_store_from_config(app_config, timeout=60)
    edgecontext_factory = EdgeContextFactory(secrets)

    # pass edgecontext_factory to your framework's integration
    # for Thrift: baseplate.frameworks.thrift.baseplateify_processor
    # for Pyramid: baseplate.frameworks.pyramid.BaseplateConfigurator

Then read fields while handling requests:

def my_view(request):
    return request.edgecontext.user.id

See the documentation for all the available fields.

Development

A Dockerfile is provided to get a development environment running. To use it, build the base Docker image:

$ docker build -t edgecontext .

And then fire up the environment and use the provided Makefile targets to do common tasks:

$ docker run -it -v $PWD:/src -w /src edgecontext
$ make fmt

The following make targets are provided:

• fmt: Apply automatic formatting to the source code.
• thrift: Generate code from the Thrift IDL. Run fmt after doing this.
• lint: Run linters on the code.
• test: Run the test suite.
• docs: Build the docs. Output can be found in build/html/.

The generated Thrift code is committed to the Git repo, so if you change reddit_edgecontext/edgecontext.thrift make sure to run make thrift fmt and commit those changes as well.