capo-api-gateway: typed, async Python SDK for AWS API Gateway¶

capo-api-gateway is a typed Python SDK for AWS API Gateway. It has an async client, AsyncAPIGatewayClient, for asyncio and trio, and a sync client, APIGatewayClient, with the same methods. Requests and responses are typed with TypedDicts, so your editor and type checker know every field.

It is part of capo, a community-driven alternative to boto3 and aioboto3, built on its own HTTP stack instead of botocore and generated from the official AWS Smithy models. Documentation: https://capo-sdk.dev/services/api-gateway/

Installation¶

pip install capo-api-gateway

Usage¶

from capo_api_gateway import AsyncAPIGatewayClient


async def main():
    async with AsyncAPIGatewayClient() as api_gateway:
        # Example: call the create_api_key operation
        response = await api_gateway.create_api_key()
        print(response["id"])

Pagination¶

Some operations in this SDK support pagination. If the operation supports pagination it will have an iter_ prefixed method that returns an async iterator.

from capo_api_gateway import AsyncAPIGatewayClient


async def main():
    async with AsyncAPIGatewayClient() as api_gateway:
        # Example: paginate over get_api_keys
        async for item in api_gateway.iter_get_api_keys():
            print(item)

Error Handling¶

The SDK raises exceptions for errors returned by the API. Catch them to handle failures gracefully.

from capo_api_gateway import AsyncAPIGatewayClient
from capo_api_gateway.error import BadRequestException


async def main():
    async with AsyncAPIGatewayClient() as api_gateway:
        try:
            await api_gateway.create_api_key()
        except BadRequestException as e:
            print(f"Error: {e}")
            print(e.data)  # additional error data

Retrying¶

The SDK retries failed operations automatically. Retry behaviour follows the Smithy specification: errors are retried based on their is_retryable and is_throttling_error attributes. Throttling errors use a longer base delay. Network-level failures (connection errors and timeouts) are also retried. Non-retryable errors, such as client errors without the @retryable trait, are raised immediately without further attempts.

The number of attempts defaults to 3 and can be changed at the client level via retry_max_attempts, or per call via config_overrides.

from capo_api_gateway import AsyncAPIGatewayClient


async def main():
    async with AsyncAPIGatewayClient() as api_gateway:
        # Default: 3 attempts for every operation
        response = await api_gateway.create_api_key()

        # Override per operation
        response = await api_gateway.create_api_key(config_overrides={"retry_max_attempts": 5})

        # Disable retries for this call
        response = await api_gateway.create_api_key(config_overrides={"retry_max_attempts": 1})