X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blobdiff_plain/0561bd0c3c07257fd58ded6c7cfa5feeae97af57..a9b9c6ff05e0268570b829bd62a6f683cf9f1d19:/sdk/python/arvados/safeapi.py

diff --git a/sdk/python/arvados/safeapi.py b/sdk/python/arvados/safeapi.py
index 5c8a836939..c6e17cae0b 100644
--- a/sdk/python/arvados/safeapi.py
+++ b/sdk/python/arvados/safeapi.py
@@ -20,16 +20,24 @@ class ThreadSafeApiCache(object):
 
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, apiconfig=None, keep_params={}):
+    def __init__(self, apiconfig=None, keep_params={}, api_params={}):
         if apiconfig is None:
             apiconfig = config.settings()
         self.apiconfig = copy.copy(apiconfig)
+        self.api_params = api_params
         self.local = threading.local()
+
+        # Initialize an API object for this thread before creating
+        # KeepClient, this will report if ARVADOS_API_HOST or
+        # ARVADOS_API_TOKEN are missing.
+        self.localapi()
+
         self.keep = keep.KeepClient(api_client=self, **keep_params)
 
     def localapi(self):
         if 'api' not in self.local.__dict__:
-            self.local.api = arvados.api_from_config('v1', apiconfig=self.apiconfig)
+            self.local.api = arvados.api_from_config('v1', apiconfig=self.apiconfig,
+                                                     **self.api_params)
         return self.local.api
 
     def __getattr__(self, name):