That makes sense but doesn't connect only happen once when create_engine() is called? On Thursday, September 7, 2023 at 12:00:35 PM UTC-6 Mike Bayer wrote:
> the documentation for this pattern is at > https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/core/engines.html#generating-dynamic-authentication-tokens > > , and a completely specific example is at > https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/20/dialects/mssql.html#mssql-pyodbc-access-tokens > > . Basically your application needs to have some way to retrieve the > correct credentials as it runs, and you hook that into the event to > populate the connect arguments with the correct credentials. > > On Thu, Sep 7, 2023, at 1:54 PM, Steven Schierholz wrote: > > So I have seen some chats here about cred refresh from vault and some > suggestions have been to use @event.listens_for(engine, "do_connect") to > update creds when the connection is established. My understanding of this > is that connecting to the database should only happen once when my flask > application starts up, but I need to update the creds without restarting my > application so I'm not sure that the event listener will work in my case. > > Am I understanding that correctly? If so, is there a way to get the right > creds to pass to the engine for sqlalchemy every 24 hours when the creds > from vault get updated without restarting my application? > > > -- > SQLAlchemy - > The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper > > http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ > > To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and > Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full > description. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sqlalchemy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sqlalchemy+...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sqlalchemy/2de2e3fb-526c-49f7-8780-9ef55a9ad8bcn%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sqlalchemy/2de2e3fb-526c-49f7-8780-9ef55a9ad8bcn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ To post example code, please provide an MCVE: Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable Example. See http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve for a full description. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sqlalchemy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sqlalchemy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sqlalchemy/2d36beb7-d2ae-4178-8787-442e74cc9615n%40googlegroups.com.