Implement updating a bucket

[SimonMayerhofer]

Proposal:
Currently there is no way of updating a bucket with the current BucketsApi. With the CLI it is e.g. possible to update the name or the retention period of a bucket.

Current behavior:
no way

Desired behavior:
Beeing able to change the name of the bucket.

Use case:
Why is this important (helps with prioritizing requests)?
In my use case of influx, I always need to delete all data and write it again in order to have all my data there. Currently I first need to delete and then write the data again. What would result in less downtime or less incomplete data during writing is a workflow where I can:

1. create & write to 'temp' bucket
2. rename 'production' bucket to 'old'
3. rename 'temp' bucket to 'production'
4. delete 'old' bucket

That way I could easily write data as long as I want to a separate bucket and still be able to use the main bucket, and quickly change them after the writing is done.

[bednar]

Hi @SimonMayerhofer,

thanks for using our client.

The BucketsApi is wrapper for generated BucketsService which cover full spec of InfluxDB 2 HTTP API.

As a workaround you can use something like:

from influxdb_client import InfluxDBClient, BucketRetentionRules, BucketsService, PatchBucketRequest

"""
Define credentials
"""
url = "http://localhost:8086"
token = "my-token"
org = "my-org"

with InfluxDBClient(url=url, token=token) as client:
    buckets_api = client.buckets_api()

    retention_rules = BucketRetentionRules(type="expire", every_seconds=3600)
    created_bucket = buckets_api.create_bucket(bucket_name="bucket-by-python",
                                               retention_rules=retention_rules,
                                               org=org)
    print(created_bucket)
    print("---")

    service = BucketsService(client.api_client)
    service.patch_buckets_id(bucket_id=created_bucket.id, patch_bucket_request=PatchBucketRequest(name="Updated name"))

    updated_bucket = buckets_api.find_bucket_by_id(created_bucket.id)
    print(updated_bucket)

Regards

[SimonMayerhofer]

Awesome! Thanks a lot :)