[BEAM-4055] Migrate Python SDK off of apitools dependency

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: P2
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Fix Version/s: Not applicable
• Component/s: sdk-py-core
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Chamikara Madhusanka Jayalath
• Created: 11/Apr/18 22:38
• Updated: 24/Jul/20 20:18
• Resolved: 22/Jan/19 21:13

Description

apitools library used by Python SDK for connecting to various GCP services (Dataflow, GCS, BigQuery) is not being activaly developed. We should move off this library to better supported clients. For example [1][2].

[1] https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/python/

[2] https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/google-cloud-python/