Rate limit date format isn't handled properly and prevents hitting backoff code about okta-sdk-python

[serhiibuniak-okta]

@JonsSpaghetti Thank you for a detailed description of the issue. I'm looking into it. Is it a blocker? I don't see some easy workaround to unblock you, but writing own retry wrapper around request and playing with rateLimit configuration (set maxRetries to 0 to disable our retry logic):

# use lib retry or write own retry logic 
from retry.api import retry_call


# assume problem is while calling method "list_users"
async def main():
    config = {'rateLimit': {'maxRetries': 0}}
    client = OktaClient(config)
    retry_call(client.list_users, tries=3)

[JonsSpaghetti]

@serhiibuniak-okta I saw that you posted a fix for this, thanks for the quick turnaround. The solution you posted makes sense to me so if we need to do this immediately I'll consider setting maxRetries to 0 and using separate retry logic or something similar.

Do you have any estimate when the change will go in/be available in a published version of the SDK?

[serhiibuniak-okta]

@JonsSpaghetti The issue was in outdated date format. For easier workaround you can try reassign constant before any other import:

from okta import constants
constants.DATE_FORMAT = "%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z"

# then rest of imports and code:
from okta.client import Client as OktaClient

Hope, this helps. And regarding estimates about published version: I will clarify from Monday and reply with estimations.

[serhiibuniak-okta]

@JonsSpaghetti This fix will be included in published version soon, next upcoming release.

[serhiibuniak-okta]

@JonsSpaghetti Release v1.3.2 is ready, I'm closing this issue as resolved.