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What

Servers such as FastAPI and Django apps need one client per request, scoped to the caller's JWT so that row level security applies. This adds with_token(), a cheap and supported way to do that.

Changes

• SupabaseClient.with_token(access_token) returns a client of the same type that:
  • shares the HTTP session, headers, request timeout, retry policy and service options of the original,
  • sends Authorization: Bearer <access_token> to postgrest, storage and functions, and uses the token for realtime,
  • never refreshes or replaces the token,
  • does no I/O, so it is cheap to create per request (about 27 µs),
  • has no auth client, like a supabase-js client created with accessToken. Using its auth raises SupabaseException. Use the original client's auth, for example auth.get_claims(token), which also keeps the JWKS cache across requests,
  • does not close the shared HTTP session when it is closed, or when one of its services such as postgrest is left with with or async with. It sends through a private wrapper of the session whose exit does nothing.
  • It rejects an empty token with ValueError.
• The auth client is still built in the constructor, so threads share one. A with_token() copy drops it right after construction, and close() and aclose() stop the auto-refresh only when an auth client exists.
• HttpxSession, AsyncHttpxSession and AsyncAiohttpSession in supabase_utils take a keyword-only owns_client (default True). When it is false, leaving the session does not close the HTTP client. The factories pass owns_client=False for an http_client given by the caller, so leaving a service such as postgrest no longer closes it either. feat(supabase): add close() and aclose() to the top-level client #2035 already covered closing the top-level client.
• README: a section on the one-client-per-request pattern for servers, and the with_token() case in the error tree.
• sdk-compliance.yaml: registers SupabaseClient.with_token under client.authentication_integration.cross_client_token_sync.

Not included

The access_token callback option, like supabase-js accessToken, is client.authentication_integration.third_party_auth in the registry and is tracked in SDK-111. It can reuse the auth-less client from this PR.

Tests

src/supabase/tests/test_with_token.py covers:

• the headers sent by every service, and the realtime token,
• isolation from the original client, including a sign-out on it,
• the shared options,
• that auth raises on a with_token() client,
• the empty token,
• that closing or leaving a scoped client or its services keeps the session open,
• that the factories keep a given http_client open (httpx sync and async, aiohttp) and close one they created.

The adapter tests in supabase_utils cover owns_client both ways.

Closes SDK-2658

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Summary

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• New Features
  • Added token-scoped clients for making requests on behalf of a specific user while reusing the original client’s connection and service options.
  • Token-scoped clients do not refresh or store auth sessions and leave the shared connection open when closed.
• Documentation
  • Added guidance for using one shared client with per-request tokens in server applications.
  • Clarified when HTTP sessions are closed, including when a supplied session remains the owner’s responsibility.

The change adds with_token(access_token) to sync and async Supabase clients. The derived client shares the original HTTP session and service options, uses the supplied token, and disables auth auto-refresh and session storage. Client context managers and factory functions now track HTTP session ownership. The README and SDK compliance entry document token-scoped clients and HTTP session lifecycle.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant SupabaseClient
  participant ScopedClient
  participant TableService
  participant HTTPClient
  Caller->>SupabaseClient: with_token(access_token)
  SupabaseClient->>ScopedClient: Construct with shared session and token Authorization
  Caller->>TableService: Query through ScopedClient
  TableService->>HTTPClient: Send request with Authorization and API key

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Possibly related PRs

• supabase/supabase-py#1370: Introduces the SupabaseClient base and shared service-client architecture used by with_token().
• supabase/supabase-py#2013: Changes auth storage and session-management contracts used by the scoped auth client.
• supabase/supabase-py#2005: Changes Authorization routing to Functions, which this change exercises with a caller JWT and separate API key.

Change: Feature

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 9ef27

The new with_token() method creates a per-request client that shares the parent's HTTP session and sends the caller's JWT. It deliberately has no auth client, and the README documents this. The ownership flag stops closing a derived client from closing the shared session, while factory-created sessions still close as before. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains after this review.

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