pyarrow.flight.FlightClient¶

class pyarrow.flight.FlightClient(location, tls_root_certs=None, *, cert_chain=None, private_key=None, override_hostname=None, middleware=None, write_size_limit_bytes=None, disable_server_verification=None, generic_options=None)¶

Bases: pyarrow.lib._Weakrefable

A client to a Flight service.

Connect to a Flight service on the given host and port.

Parameters

locationstr, tuple or Location: Location to connect to. Either a gRPC URI like grpc://localhost:port, a tuple of (host, port) pair, or a Location instance.
tls_root_certsbytes or None: PEM-encoded
cert_chain: bytes or None: Client certificate if using mutual TLS
private_key: bytes or None: Client private key for cert_chain is using mutual TLS
override_hostnamestr or None: Override the hostname checked by TLS. Insecure, use with caution.
middlewarelist optional, default None: A list of ClientMiddlewareFactory instances.
write_size_limit_bytesint optional, default None: A soft limit on the size of a data payload sent to the server. Enabled if positive. If enabled, writing a record batch that (when serialized) exceeds this limit will raise an exception; the client can retry the write with a smaller batch.
disable_server_verificationbool optional, default False: A flag that indicates that, if the client is connecting with TLS, that it skips server verification. If this is enabled, all other TLS settings are overridden.
generic_optionslist optional, default None: A list of generic (string, int or string) option tuples passed to the underlying transport. Effect is implementation dependent.

__init__(*args, **kwargs)¶

Methods

`__init__`(args, *kwargs)
`authenticate`(self, auth_handler, ...)	Authenticate to the server.
`authenticate_basic_token`(self, username, ...)	Authenticate to the server with HTTP basic authentication.
`connect`(type cls, location[, ...])
`do_action`(self, action, ...)	Execute an action on a service.
`do_exchange`(self, ...)	Start a bidirectional data exchange with a server.
`do_get`(self, Ticket ticket, ...)	Request the data for a flight.
`do_put`(self, FlightDescriptor descriptor, ...)	Upload data to a flight.
`get_flight_info`(self, ...)	Request information about an available flight.
`get_schema`(self, ...)	Request schema for an available flight.
`list_actions`(self, FlightCallOptions options)	List the actions available on a service.
`list_flights`(self, bytes criteria, ...)	List the flights available on a service.
`wait_for_available`(self[, timeout])	Block until the server can be contacted.

authenticate(self, auth_handler, FlightCallOptions options: FlightCallOptions = None)¶

Authenticate to the server.

Parameters

auth_handlerClientAuthHandler: The authentication mechanism to use.
optionsFlightCallOptions: Options for this call.

authenticate_basic_token(self, username, password, FlightCallOptions options: FlightCallOptions = None)¶

Authenticate to the server with HTTP basic authentication.

Parameters

usernamestr: Username to authenticate with
passwordstr: Password to authenticate with
optionsFlightCallOptions: Options for this call

Returns

tupleTuple[str, str]: A tuple representing the FlightCallOptions authorization header entry of a bearer token.

connect(type cls, location, tls_root_certs=None, cert_chain=None, private_key=None, override_hostname=None, disable_server_verification=None)¶

do_action(self, action, FlightCallOptions options: FlightCallOptions = None)¶

Execute an action on a service.

Parameters

actionstr, tuple, or Action: Can be action type name (no body), type and body, or any Action object
optionsFlightCallOptions: RPC options

Returns

resultsiterator of Result values

do_exchange(self, FlightDescriptor descriptor: FlightDescriptor, FlightCallOptions options: FlightCallOptions = None)¶

Start a bidirectional data exchange with a server.

Parameters

descriptorFlightDescriptor: A descriptor for the flight.
optionsFlightCallOptions: RPC options.

Returns

writerFlightStreamWriter
readerFlightStreamReader

do_get(self, Ticket ticket: Ticket, FlightCallOptions options: FlightCallOptions = None)¶

Request the data for a flight.

Returns

readerFlightStreamReader

do_put(self, FlightDescriptor descriptor: FlightDescriptor, Schema schema: Schema, FlightCallOptions options: FlightCallOptions = None)¶

Upload data to a flight.

Returns

writerFlightStreamWriter
readerFlightMetadataReader

get_flight_info(self, FlightDescriptor descriptor: FlightDescriptor, FlightCallOptions options: FlightCallOptions = None)¶: Request information about an available flight.

get_schema(self, FlightDescriptor descriptor: FlightDescriptor, FlightCallOptions options: FlightCallOptions = None)¶: Request schema for an available flight.

list_actions(self, FlightCallOptions options: FlightCallOptions = None)¶: List the actions available on a service.

list_flights(self, bytes criteria: bytes = None, FlightCallOptions options: FlightCallOptions = None)¶: List the flights available on a service.

wait_for_available(self, timeout=5)¶

Block until the server can be contacted.

Parameters

timeoutint, default 5: The maximum seconds to wait.

pyarrow.flight.FlightCallOptions

pyarrow.flight.ClientMiddlewareFactory