Batch API requests?

[alexwennerberg]

One of the things I use in the Python SDK all the time to improve performance is their wrapper around making batch requests:
https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/batch
https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/guide/batch

I may be missing something, but I don't see any support for batch requests in this library. Is that on the roadmap?

Thanks!

[Byron]

This should be as easy as running make update-json on your machine. That will fetch all APIs discoverable by the google discovery API and update existing API descriptions, too.
That way you might see the respective endpoints show up.
I myself have not run this in a little while, but will happily try again once I have my new computer which provides much more power and thus developer happiness :D.

[alexwennerberg]

Unfortunately the batch method isn't discoverable by the Google API, it has a different syntax. It would involve creating request JSONs and then merging them into a single multipart upload, as shown here: https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/batch#example

Thanks!

[Byron]

Oh, I see! Thanks for bringing this to my attention. If (or when) the next version of this generator is created to enable proper async-everything, it should be made to allow custom implementations to be added, too, just for these cases.
In the mean-time, I don't think I will touch this code-base except for the occasional make update-json and republish.