bokeh.settings

Control global configuration options with environment variables. A global settings object that other parts of Bokeh can refer to.

Defined Settings

Settings are accessible on the bokeh.settings.settings instance, via accessor methods. For instance:

settings.minified()

Bokeh provides the following defined settings:

allowed_ws_origin

Type

List[String]

Env var

BOKEH_ALLOW_WS_ORIGIN

Default

[]

Dev Default

(Unset)

A comma-separated list of allowed websocket origins for Bokeh server applications.

auth_module

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_AUTH_MODULE

Default

None

Dev Default

(Unset)

A path to a Python modules that implements user authentication functions for the Bokeh server.

Warning

The contents of this module will be executed!

browser

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_BROWSER

Default

None

Dev Default

‘none’

The default browser that Bokeh should use to show documents with.

Valid values are any of the predefined browser names understood by the Python standard library webbrowser module.

version

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_CDN_VERSION

Default

None

Dev Default

(Unset)

What version of BokehJS to use with CDN resources.

See the Resources class reference for full details.

docs_alert

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_DOCS_ALERT

Default

None

Dev Default

(Unset)

Text for an alert banner to display when building the docs locally (for testing the alert banner capability).

docs_cdn

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_DOCS_CDN

Default

None

Dev Default

(Unset)

The version of BokehJS that should be use for loading CDN resources when building the docs.

To build and display the docs using a locally built BokehJS, use local. For example:

BOKEH_DOCS_CDN=local make clean serve

Will build a fresh copy of the docs using the locally built BokehJS and open a new browser tab to view them.

Otherwise, the value is interpreted a version for CDN. For example:

BOKEH_DOCS_CDN=1.4.0rc1 make clean

will build docs that use BokehJS version 1.4.0rc1 from CDN.

docs_version

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_DOCS_VERSION

Default

None

Dev Default

(Unset)

The Bokeh version to stipulate when building the docs.

This setting is necessary to re-deploy existing versions of docs with new fixes or changes.

ignore_filename

Type

Bool

Env var

BOKEH_IGNORE_FILENAME

Default

False

Dev Default

(Unset)

Whether to ignore the current script filename when saving Bokeh content.

log_level

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_LOG_LEVEL

Default

‘info’

Dev Default

‘debug’

Set the log level for JavaScript BokehJS code.

Valid values are, in order of increasing severity:

  • trace

  • debug

  • info

  • warn

  • error

  • fatal

minified

Type

Bool

Env var

BOKEH_MINIFIED

Default

True

Dev Default

False

Whether Bokeh should use minified BokehJS resources.

legacy

Type

Bool

Env var

BOKEH_LEGACY

Default

False

Dev Default

False

Whether Bokeh should use legacy (IE and phantomjs compatible) BokehJS resources.

nodejs_path

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_NODEJS_PATH

Default

None

Dev Default

(Unset)

Path to the Node executable.

NodeJS is an optional dependency that is required for PNG and SVG export, and for compiling custom extensions. Bokeh will try to automatically locate an installed Node executable. Use this environment variable to override the location Bokeh finds, or to point to a non-standard location.

validate_doc

Type

Bool

Env var

BOKEH_VALIDATE_DOC

Default

True

Dev Default

(Unset)

whether Bokeh should perform validation checks on documents.

Setting this value to False may afford a small performance improvement.

pretty

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_PRETTY

Default

False

Dev Default

True

Whether JSON strings should be pretty-printed.

py_log_level

Type

Log Level

Env var

BOKEH_PY_LOG_LEVEL

Default

‘none’

Dev Default

‘debug’

The log level for Python Bokeh code.

Valid values are, in order of increasing severity:

  • trace

  • debug

  • info

  • warn

  • error

  • fatal

  • none

resources

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_RESOURCES

Default

‘cdn’

Dev Default

‘absolute-dev’

What kind of BokehJS resources to configure, e.g inline or cdn

See the Resources class reference for full details.

rootdir

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_ROOTDIR

Default

None

Dev Default

(Unset)

Root directory to use with relative resources

See the Resources class reference for full details.

secret_key

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_SECRET_KEY

Default

None

Dev Default

(Unset)

A long, cryptographically-random secret unique to a Bokeh deployment.

sign_sessions

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_SIGN_SESSIONS

Default

False

Dev Default

(Unset)

Whether the Boeh server should only allow sessions signed with a secret key.

If True, BOKEH_SECRET_KEY must also be set.

simple_ids

Type

Bool

Env var

BOKEH_SIMPLE_IDS

Default

True

Dev Default

(Unset)

Whether Bokeh should use simple integers for model IDs (starting at 1000).

If False, Bokeh will use UUIDs for object identifiers. This might be needed, e.g., if multiple processes are contributing to a single Bokeh Document.

ssl_certfile

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_SSL_CERTFILE

Default

None

Dev Default

(Unset)

The path to a certificate file for SSL termination.

ssl_keyfile

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_SSL_KEYFILE

Default

None

Dev Default

(Unset)

The path to a private key file for SSL termination.

ssl_password

Type

String

Env var

BOKEH_SSL_PASSWORD

Default

None

Dev Default

(Unset)

A password to decrypt the SSL keyfile, if necessary.

validation_level

Type

Validation Level

Env var

BOKEH_VALIDATION_LEVEL

Default

‘none’

Dev Default

(Unset)

Whether validation checks should log or raise exceptions on errors and warnings.

Valid values are:

  • none: no exceptions raised (default).

  • errors: exception raised on errors (but not on warnings)

  • all: exception raised on both errors and warnings

xsrf_cookies

Type

Bool

Env var

BOKEH_XSRF_COOKIES

Default

False

Dev Default

(Unset)

Whether to enable Tornado XSRF cookie protection on the Bokeh server. This is only applicable when also using an auth module or custom handlers. See

https://www.tornadoweb.org/en/stable/guide/security.html#cross-site-request-forgery-protection

for more information about XSRF protection in Tornado. All PUT, POST, and DELETE handlers will need to be appropriately instrumented when this setting is active.

Precedence

Setting values are always looked up in the following prescribed order:

immediately supplied values

These are values that are passed to the setting:

settings.minified(minified_val)

If minified_val is not None, then it will be returned, as-is. Otherwise, if None is passed, then the setting will continute to look down the search order for a value. This is useful for passing optional function paramters that are None by default. If the parameter is passed to the function, then it will take precedence.

previously user-set values

If the value is set explicity in code:

settings.minified = False

Then this value will take precedence over other sources. Applications may use this ability to set values supplied on the command line, so that they take precedence over environment variables.

user-specified config override file

Values from a YAML configuration file that is explicitly loaded:

settings.load_config("/path/to/bokeh.yaml)

Any values from bokeh.yaml will take precedence over the sources below. Applications may offer command line arguments to load such a file. e.g. bokeh serve --use-config myconf.yaml

environment variable

Values found in the associated environment variables:

BOKEH_MINIFIED=no bokeh serve app.py
local user config file

Bokeh will look for a YAML configuration file in the current user’s home directory ${HOME}/.bokeh/bokeh.yaml.

global system configuration (not yet implemented)

Future support is planned to load Bokeh settings from global system configurations.

local defaults

These are default values defined when accessing the setting:

settings.resources(default="server")

Local defaults have lower precendence than every other setting mechanism except global defaults.

global defaults

These are default values defined by the setting declarations. They have lower precedence than every other setting mechanism.

If no value is obtained after searching all of these locations, then a RuntimeError will be raised.

API

There are a few methods on the settings object:

class Settings[source]
bokehjsdir() str[source]

The location of the BokehJS source tree.

css_files() List[str][source]

The CSS files in the BokehJS directory.

js_files() List[str][source]

The JS files in the BokehJS directory.

load_config(location: str) None[source]

Load a user-specified override config file.

The file should be a YAML format with key: value lines.

secret_key_bytes() bytes | None[source]

Return the secret_key, converted to bytes and cached.