AsyncIO - Allow providing an initial aiohttp session to the auth0 client

[ca-simone-chiorazzo]

Describe the problem you'd like to have solved

We've refactored our implementation of auth0 python in order to leverage the new asyncio support. During the development, we've found difficult to provide an aiohttp HTTP client session to the auth0 SDK, making difficult to leverage a best practice like https://docs.aiohttp.org/en/stable/faq.html#how-do-i-manage-a-clientsession-within-a-web-server

Describe the ideal solution

Provide a way to inject a custom aiohttp client session that can be reused in a web server.

Alternatives and current work-arounds

for name in modules.keys():
            module = getattr(auth0_client, name)
            module._async_client.client.set_session(SingletonAuth0AiohttpClientSession.get_aiohttp_client_session())

where the SingletonAuth0AiohttpClientSession is a class that is managed by FastAPI application events that automatically closes the session on the application shutdown.

Additional information, if any

[adamjmcgrath]

Hi @ca-simone-chiorazzo - thanks for raising this

You can share a session between individual services as follows:

  Users = asyncify(Users)
  Connections = asyncify(Connections)
  session = aiohttp.ClientSession()
  users = Users(domain, mgmt_api_token)
  connections = Connections(domain, mgmt_api_token)
  users.set_session(session)
  connections.set_session(session) 
  u = await auth0.users.all_async()
  c = await auth0.connections.all_async()
  session.close()

Is this what you were after?

[ca-simone-chiorazzo]

@adamjmcgrath Nope, I was referring to passing the client session directly to the Auth0 client and not on individual services

[ca-simone-chiorazzo]

@adamjmcgrath It would be great to have something like:

session = aiohttp.ClientSession()
auth0_client = Auth0(domain='a-domain', token='a-token', http_session=session)

in order to be able to continue leverage the Auth0 object.