[DatasourceItem] use_remote_query_agent settable on publish

[MSGMax]

Summary

Can we have DatasourceItem attribute use_remote_query_agent settable (True/False), so we can publish Datasources that are capable of connecting to Private Networks (use Tableau Bridge)?

Request Type

Currently this attribute cannot be set when DatasourceItem object is created.

Type 1: support a REST API:
This functionality is supported by REST API
https://help.tableau.com/current/api/rest_api/en-us/REST/rest_api_ref_data_sources.htm#update_data_source

Type 2: add a REST API and support it in tsc.
N/A

Type 3: new functionality
N/A

Description

Enable setting use_remote_query_agent (True/False) when DatasourceItem item is being created

[jorwoods]

It looks like use_remote_query_agent is already an attribute on DatasourceItems, and included as part of the XML request during publish, though not included as part of update requests. Does this existing functionality meet your need?

server-client-python/tableauserverclient/server/request_factory.py

Lines 163 to 164 in 777db4e

	if datasource_item.use_remote_query_agent is not None:
	datasource_element.attrib["useRemoteQueryAgent"] = str(datasource_item.use_remote_query_agent).lower()

[MSGMax]

Hi jorwoods,

Thanks for looking into it.
I have a problem with initialising DatasourceItem before I can even publish it as per below code:
datasource_item = tsc.DatasourceItem(project_id='hh881338-4a4c-4365-837t-abc7aa1c69e6', name='test', use_remote_query_agent=True)

above throws the following error:
DatasourceItem.init() got an unexpected keyword argument 'use_remote_query_agent'.

Can you give me an example of a code that would allow me to publish a new data source with use_remote_query_agent set to true (default is false)?

Thanks,
M

[jorwoods]

datasource_item = tsc.DatasourceItem(project_id='hh881338-4a4c-4365-837t-abc7aa1c69e6',  name='test')
datasource_item.use_remote_query_agent=True

[MSGMax]

Works perfectly. Case closed.
Thank you very much.