ThoughtSpot For Developers•5w ago

Hey everyone, I have questions about

Hey everyone, I have questions about initializing the Thoughtspot SDK. As far as I understand before embedding Liveboards I have to initialize SDK with

init({
    thoughtSpotHost: "https://<hostname>:<port>",
    authType: <AuthType>,
    ... // other authType dependent properties.
});

init({
    thoughtSpotHost: "https://<hostname>:<port>",
    authType: <AuthType>,
    ... // other authType dependent properties.
});

And here is my question: * Does init() creates a global state or I can have multiple init() instances for different ThoughtSpot Hosts? For example I have 2 ThoughtSpot Hosts with their own sets of Liveboards, is it possible to somehow configure SDK so I can embed Liveboard from both Hosts at the same page at the same time?

11 Replies

shikharTS•5w ago

I think you should be able to use 2 init for different TS hosts. Each will initialize the corresponding TS host. @jbc to correct me if I am wrong..

StellnoxOP•5w ago

Hm, interesting. So theoretically I can do something like this

init({
    thoughtSpotHost: "Host 1",
    authType: <AuthType>,
    ... // other authType dependent properties.
});
init({
    thoughtSpotHost: "Host 2",
    authType: <AuthType>,
    ... // other authType dependent properties.
});

init({
    thoughtSpotHost: "Host 1",
    authType: <AuthType>,
    ... // other authType dependent properties.
});
init({
    thoughtSpotHost: "Host 2",
    authType: <AuthType>,
    ... // other authType dependent properties.
});

Considering that credentials for both hosts is correct. And that should allow me to embed Liveboards from "Host 1" and "Host 2"?

shikharTS•5w ago

I think so yes.

StellnoxOP•5w ago

Ok, thanks, I'll give it a shot

shikharTS•5w ago

Hey @Stellnox I confirmed with @jbc (senior FE engineer) internally. Looks like this is not possible. We have a limitation on our side

We store a single instance of init config. That’s our limitation. They cannot instantiate with multiple hosts., it will override with the last invoked call

We store a single instance of init config. That’s our limitation. They cannot instantiate with multiple hosts., it will override with the last invoked call

What is your use case though? What 2 instances of TS do you have?

StellnoxOP•5w ago

That's a bummer, I dont have any specific instance to share. My usecase in that I would like to embed several Liveboards from different TS hosts.

shikharTS•5w ago

Usually we have just one TS host per customer.. Can you give an example of the different TS hosts?

StellnoxOP•5w ago

Well I dont have any specific example unfortunately, its just that edge case when I need to embed liveboard from different hosts.

shikharTS•5w ago

I see. Will let @jbc comment here once he gets time to give workarounds if possible.

StellnoxOP•5w ago

Thank you a lot!

jbc•5w ago

Hey @Stellnox , at the moment we don't have a support for multiple hosts as that wasn't a known requirement so far. You can raise this as a feature request and we could solution this further. cc @Himanshu Arora @Nicolas The workarounds that can be suggested might be too complicated to implement on your end. You would need a different scope for each usage, so you could save the SDK bundle as separate file within your codebase. eg: tsembed-1.js and tsembed-2.js Or add a NodeJs helper which loads the our SDK with a different name everytime you call it.

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