The "How To" on initializing the SDK with different profiles in your ini file (Community)

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Last tested: May 13, 2020
 

For those that don't know, the ini file contains information like client secret and id that help us determine which user/profile to initialize the SDK with. Additionally you can have multiple profiles defined in a single ini file by adding the profile name in [example] above the credentials for that profile.

Now the question becomes, how can one initialize the SDK based off of a specific profile they have defined in their ini file? Well that is actually quite simple

INI File:

[somethingelse]

# API version is required

api_version=3.1

# Base URL for API. Do not include /api/* in the url

base_url=https://localhost:19999

# API 3 client id

client_id=...

# API 3 client secret

client_secret=...

# Set to false if testing locally against self-signed certs. Otherwise leave True

verify_ssl=False

[Looker]

# API version is required

api_version=3.1

# Base URL for API. Do not include /api/* in the url

base_url=https://instance.looker.com:19999

# API 3 client id

client_id=...

# API 3 client secret

client_secret=...

# Set to false if testing locally against self-signed certs. Otherwise leave True

verify_ssl=True

SDK Initialization:

# Initializing with the [Looker] profile

sdk = looker_sdk.init31(config_file="looker_instance.ini", section="Looker")

Here we are passing a config_file parameter pointing to the ini file. Then we are passing in a section parameter which references the section or profile in the ini file with which's credentials you want the SDK to be initialized with!

And that's all she wrote!