External transport discussion about google-auth-library-python

[dhermes]

I like what you've constructed above.

[theacodes]

I like what you've constructed above.

Yay!

Any thoughts on this:

The only concern I have about this is the long import path (google.auth.transport.urllib3). I can't think of a good, clean way to do something like oauth2client's authorize and I'm not sure that I want to.

[dhermes]

Long import paths don't bother me. You can make transport the thing that people import.

[theacodes]

You can make transport the thing that people import.

How so? Import all the submodules?

[dhermes]

Yes.

[jplanza]

@jonparrott Is this the expected pattern for people to follow when they need to attach a custom http object to a google.auth.default() request? I'm trying to sort out how to run google-auth through a proxy; using a proxy is a pretty common use case, so if this is the right way to do it, some documentation pointers would be very helpful here:

https://google-auth.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user-guide.html

[theacodes]

If you're using a proxy and the requests transport you can just set the standard HTTP_PROXY and HTTPS_PROXY environment variables.