Best Practices

One OandaClient per application

Using async_v20 example, used OandaClient as a context manager. This is correct when the client does not need to be shared between multiple coroutines.

This is a an example of multiple coroutines using the One OandaClient instance:

import asyncio

from async_v20 import OandaClient

client = OandaClient()


async def poll_account(poll_interval=6, client=client):
    while True:
        account = await client.account()
        print(account)
        await asyncio.sleep(poll_interval)


async def stream(instruments, client=client):
    async for price in await client.stream_pricing(instruments):
        print(price)


loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
loop.run_until_complete(
    asyncio.gather(poll_account(), stream('EUR_USD'))
    )
client.close()

Initialize first

OandaClient requires initialization. The initialization procedure can delay execution of OandaClient. methods

If this is a concern for you, it is recommended to preemptively initialize the OandaClient instance.

import asyncio

from async_v20 import OandaClient

client = OandaClient()

loop = asyncio.get_event_loop()
response = loop.run_until_complete(client.initialize())

# Write your code here

loop.run_until_complete(client.close())

Check Services

It is encouraged to check the service you wish to consume is available. See Health API.