static async Task <MetabaseApi> InitApi(MetabaseApiSettings apiSettings)
{
const string filename = "metabase-token.txt";
string GetInitialToken()
{
try
{
return(File.ReadAllText(filename));
}
catch (Exception e)
{
return(null);
}
}
// get an existing token if available to work around Metabase throttling
// https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues/4979
var MetabaseInitialToken = GetInitialToken();
var metabaseSession = new MetabaseSessionTokenManager(apiSettings, MetabaseInitialToken);
var api = new MetabaseApi(metabaseSession);
try
{
await api.GetAllDashboards(); // attempt an API call to either validate or renew the session token
var token = await metabaseSession.CurrentToken();
File.WriteAllText(filename, token);
return(api);
}
catch (Exception e)
{
throw new Exception("Error initialising Metabase API for " + apiSettings.MetabaseApiUrl, e);
}
}
public MetabaseApi(MetabaseSessionTokenManager sessionManager)
{
this.sessionManager = sessionManager;
}