Statsd Sets for use with WoLpH/python-statsd.

statsd_sets.py

import statsd

class Sets(statsd.Client):
    '''Class to implement a statsd sets message
    since python-statsd does not have sets.
    A modified copy of https://python-statsd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/_modules/statsd/raw.html#Raw

    >>> sets = Sets('test.app')
    >>> sets.send('name', 12435)
    True
    >>> import uuid
    >>> sets.send('name', str(uuid.uuid4()))
    True
    '''

    def send(self, subname, value):
        '''Send the data to statsd via self.connection

        :keyword subname: The subname to report the data to
                          (appended to the client name)
        :type subname: str
        :keyword value: The sets value to be recorded
        '''
        name = self._get_name(self.name, subname)
        self.logger.info('%s: %s' % (name, value))
        return statsd.Client._send(self, {name: '%s|s' % (value)})