connection_classes.md

• Connection Classes
  • Selecting a Connection Class
    • Urllib3HttpConnection
    • RequestsHttpConnection
    • AsyncHttpConnection
  • Connection Pooling

Connection Classes

The OpenSearch Python synchronous client supports both the Urllib3HttpConnection connection class (default) from the urllib3 library, and RequestsHttpConnection from the requests library. We recommend you use the default, unless your application is standardized on requests.

The faster, asynchronous client, implements a class called AsyncHttpConnection, which uses aiohttp.

Selecting a Connection Class

Urllib3HttpConnection

from opensearchpy import OpenSearch, Urllib3HttpConnection

client = OpenSearch(
    hosts = [{'host': 'localhost', 'port': 9200}],
    http_auth = ('admin', 'admin'),
    use_ssl = True,
    verify_certs = False,
    ssl_show_warn = False,
    connection_class = Urllib3HttpConnection
)

RequestsHttpConnection

from opensearchpy import OpenSearch, RequestsHttpConnection

client = OpenSearch(
    hosts = [{'host': 'localhost', 'port': 9200}],
    http_auth = ('admin', 'admin'),
    use_ssl = True,
    verify_certs = False,
    ssl_show_warn = False,
    connection_class = RequestsHttpConnection
)

AsyncHttpConnection

from opensearchpy import AsyncOpenSearch, AsyncHttpConnection

async def main():
    client = AsyncOpenSearch(
        hosts = [{'host': 'localhost', 'port': 9200}],
        http_auth = ('admin', 'admin'),
        use_ssl = True,
        verify_certs = False,
        ssl_show_warn = False,
        connection_class = AsyncHttpConnection
    )

Connection Pooling

The OpenSearch Python client has a connection pool for each host value specified during initialization, and a connection pool for HTTP connections to each host implemented in the underlying HTTP libraries. You can adjust the max size of the latter connection pool with pool_maxsize.

If you don't set this value, each connection library implementation will provide its default, which is typically 10. Changing the pool size may improve performance in some multithreaded scenarios.

The following example sets the number of connections in the connection pool to 12.

from opensearchpy import OpenSearch

client = OpenSearch(
    hosts = [{'host': 'localhost', 'port': 9200}],
    http_auth = ('admin', 'admin'),
    use_ssl = True,
    verify_certs = False,
    ssl_show_warn = False,
    pool_maxsize = 12,
)