Meltano

I am developing a new tap with the SDK which is basically a wrapper for `googleapiclient`. This involves instantiating a single `service` object with credentials at a high level which multiple streams make use of for their stream-specific calls.

The way I have done it so far is to instantiate this `service` object on the tap, and then access from the stream level via `self._tap.service` , but I feel like there should be a better way to do it that doesn't involve accessing an underscored object (!). Any tips welcome

Authenticators do, I think, what you're saying. Are you talking about something else?

For some reason this isn't shown on the hub but <https://github.com/AutoIDM/tap-googleads/blob/08a6e71af96323e97b882edfd0a2f10bd9e9fa7b/tap_googleads/client.py#L33-L43>

Kind of, now you mention it. I guess it's this pattern?

<https://sdk.meltano.com/en/v0.37.0/code_samples.html#make-all-streams-reuse-the-same-authenticator-instance>

The example I'm showing there is an older way of doing the same thing, definitely follow the docs but that should be helpful and it's google as well

IDK why I didn't think of that, cheers :slightly_smiling_face: