Generated code dependencies

Generated code requires:

• pydantic
• httpx
• websockets (only for the default async base client)
• graphql-core (only when enable_custom_operations is used)
• opentelemetry-api (only when opentelemetry_client is enabled)

When each dependency is required

• pydantic is always required - all generated models (inputs, enums, results, fragments) inherit from a pydantic BaseModel.
• httpx is required by the default base clients (AsyncBaseClient and BaseClient), which use it to perform HTTP requests.
• websockets is required only by the default async base client (AsyncBaseClient), and only when handling subscriptions over WebSockets. See Subscriptions.
• graphql-core is required only when the custom operation builder is enabled (enable_custom_operations = true); the generated client.py and base_operation.py then import GraphQL AST nodes from it. Regular generated clients do not import it. See Custom operation builder.
• opentelemetry-api is required only when opentelemetry_client = true, which swaps in an OpenTelemetry-instrumented base client that imports opentelemetry.trace and opentelemetry.context. See OpenTelemetry.

Avoiding httpx and websockets

Both the httpx and websockets dependencies can be avoided by providing another base client class with the base_client_file_path and base_client_name options. When you supply your own base client, ariadne-codegen copies it into the generated package instead of the default one, so the generated code only depends on whatever your base client imports.

[tool.ariadne-codegen]
base_client_file_path = "path/to/custom_base_client.py"
base_client_name = "CustomBaseClient"