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Allow clients to tag requests with a source_tag #324
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Something else to keep in mind is we would like to track usage of SDKs coming from our own higher-level tools in addition to external integration partners. For example,
This doesn't change a ton about the general strategy, but it makes me think having |
We should also reevaluate some of the cruft that's currently being passed in the user-agent strings. I've been here for a year and never had a need to know anything about what urllib3 version was in use. |
That's good to know that there isn't much relying on what's there currently. Would be nice to identify the high value information we'd like to capture and include. I can understand how it could be helpful to know what http client/version is being used to access the service, particularly if there is a known bug with a particular version that causes trouble for our service, as this would likely help CS triage and help. |
Agree we should capture those clients, but I do wonder if we should try to keep the partner info separate. A lot of that depends on what we end up doing in the back-end, like how this info is extracted and matched up to what's in our partner CRM, etc. In addition to setting the |
FYI there is a minimal unit test file called |
I was working on that concurrently with your comment -- just pushed |
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Approach and tests look good to me.
It can be tackled in a different PR if you want, but I think you'll need to go delving into GRPC base.py
code and look at how additional_metadata
gets passed. Unfortunately, I think those data calls are not sending the same user agent currently as gets sent with REST calls.
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Problem
Need to allow clients to include a
source_tag
to identify the source of their requests.Solution
Allow clients to specify a
source_tag
field in the client constructor, that will be used to identify the traffic source, if applicable.Example:
This would cause the user-agent to get a value like:
Type of Change
Testing