Frequently Asked Questions

Date of slack thread: 5/2/24

Anonymous: Hello! We’ve recently added the Statsig python SDK to our web app. We would like to be able to poll for updates to experiments and experiment configurations manually instead of relying on background jobs polling the Statsig server.

I’ve added a RedisDataStore to our StatsigOptions at initialization, and we’re able to use local_mode=True to assign users to a group once the cache is populated. But what is the best way to manually populate the cache without initializing the SDK with local_mode=False and letting it run in the background?

Anonymous: Digging a bit more, it seems like we may need to manually hit the <https://api.statsigcdn.com/v1/download_config_specs/> endpoint. Does that seem correct?

Vijaye (Statsig): <@U01RAN2FKJP>

tore (statsig): If you want to use the data store to accomplish this, you’ll need to do a few things. You won’t need local mode to accomplish this

1. we just added support to python to support polling from the specs in the adapter, rather than the network. You need to use the latest version of the sdk, and implement the should_be_used_for_querying_updates method https://github.com/statsig-io/python-sdk/releases/tag/0.31.0

https://github.com/statsig-io/python-sdk/blob/main/statsig/interface_data_store.py#L14C9-L14C44

2. You’ll need some other process that keeps the data store up to date. What were you planning to use to do this? If you want complete control over when to update the specs you’ll need to hit the download_config_specs endpoint yourself, as you identified