Palantir SDK Patterns

Overview

Production-ready patterns for Foundry Platform SDK and OSDK usage. Covers client singletons, typed error handling, pagination helpers, retry logic, and multi-tenant client factories.

Prerequisites

Completed palantir-install-auth setup
Familiarity with async/await patterns
foundry-platform-sdk or @osdk/client installed

Instructions

Step 1: Singleton Client (Python)

# src/foundry_client.py
import os
import foundry
from functools import lru_cache

@lru_cache(maxsize=1)
def get_client() -> foundry.FoundryClient:
    """Thread-safe singleton — cached after first call."""
    auth = foundry.ConfidentialClientAuth(
        client_id=os.environ["FOUNDRY_CLIENT_ID"],
        client_secret=os.environ["FOUNDRY_CLIENT_SECRET"],
        hostname=os.environ["FOUNDRY_HOSTNAME"],
        scopes=["api:read-data", "api:write-data"],
    )
    auth.sign_in_as_service_user()
    return foundry.FoundryClient(auth=auth, hostname=os.environ["FOUNDRY_HOSTNAME"])

Step 2: Typed Error Handling

import foundry
from dataclasses import dataclass
from typing import TypeVar, Generic, Optional

T = TypeVar("T")

@dataclass
class Result(Generic[T]):
    data: Optional[T] = None
    error: Optional[str] = None
    status_code: Optional[int] = None

def safe_call(fn, *args, **kwargs) -> Result:
    """Wrap any Foundry SDK call with structured error handling."""
    try:
        return Result(data=fn(*args, **kwargs))
    except foundry.ApiError as e:
        return Result(error=e.message, status_code=e.status_code)
    except Exception as e:
        return Result(error=str(e))

# Usage
result = safe_call(
    get_client().ontologies.OntologyObject.list,
    ontology="my-company", object_type="Employee", page_size=10,
)
if result.error:
    print(f"Error {result.status_code}: {result.error}")
else:
    print(f"Found {len(result.data.data)} objects")

Step 3: Pagination Helper

def paginate_objects(client, ontology: str, object_type: str, page_size: int = 100):
    """Iterate through all objects with automatic pagination."""
    page_token = None
    while True:
        result = client.ontologies.OntologyObject.list(
            ontology=ontology,
            object_type=object_type,
            page_size=page_size,
            page_token=page_token,
        )
        yield from result.data
        page_token = result.next_page_token
        if not page_token:
            break

# Usage
for emp in paginate_objects(get_client(), "my-company", "Employee"):
    print(emp.properties["fullName"])

Step 4: Retry with Exponential Backoff

import time
import random

def retry_with_backoff(fn, max_retries=3, base_delay=1.0):
    """Retry on 429/5xx with jittered exponential backoff."""
    for attempt in range(max_retries + 1):
        try:
            return fn()
        except foundry.ApiError as e:
            if attempt == max_retries or e.status_code not in (429, 500, 502, 503):
                raise
            delay = base_delay * (2 ** attempt) + random.uniform(0, 0.5)
            print(f"Retry {attempt + 1}/{max_retries} in {delay:.1f}s (HTTP {e.status_code})")
            time.sleep(delay)

Step 5: TypeScript OSDK Patterns

import { createClient, type Client } from "@osdk/client";
import { createConfidentialOauthClient } from "@osdk/oauth";

// Singleton with lazy initialization
let _client: Client | null = null;

export function getOsdkClient(): Client {
  if (!_client) {
    const oauth = createConfidentialOauthClient(
      process.env.FOUNDRY_CLIENT_ID!,
      process.env.FOUNDRY_CLIENT_SECRET!,
      `https://${process.env.FOUNDRY_HOSTNAME}/multipass/api/oauth2/token`,
    );
    _client = createClient(
      `https://${process.env.FOUNDRY_HOSTNAME}`,
      process.env.ONTOLOGY_RID!,
      oauth,
    );
  }
  return _client;
}

Output

Thread-safe singleton client with cached auth
Structured Result type for error handling
Automatic pagination for large object sets
Retry logic with jittered backoff

Error Handling

Pattern	Use Case	Benefit
Singleton	All API calls	One auth flow, reused connection
Result wrapper	Error propagation	No uncaught exceptions
Pagination helper	Large datasets	Memory-safe iteration
Retry with backoff	Transient failures	Resilient operations

Examples

Multi-Tenant Client Factory

_clients: dict[str, foundry.FoundryClient] = {}

def get_client_for_tenant(tenant_id: str) -> foundry.FoundryClient:
    if tenant_id not in _clients:
        hostname = get_tenant_hostname(tenant_id)
        token = get_tenant_token(tenant_id)
        _clients[tenant_id] = foundry.FoundryClient(
            auth=foundry.UserTokenAuth(hostname=hostname, token=token),
            hostname=hostname,
        )
    return _clients[tenant_id]

Resources

Next Steps

Apply patterns in palantir-core-workflow-a for real pipeline usage.