Add optional requests session for connection reuse

[Davack]

feat: Add optional requests session for connection reuse

Adds an optional session: Optional[requests.Session] = None keyword argument, accepted by OAuth2, APIHarnessV2, the legacy APIHarness, and every Service Class, allowing callers to reuse a single HTTP connection across login, every API call, token renewal, and logout — instead of opening a new connection for every request.

• Added session keyword to OAuth2, UberInterface/APIHarnessV2, ServiceClass/BaseServiceClass, and the legacy APIHarness

• Every request path funnels through a single chokepoint (perform_request() in _util/_functions.py), which now dispatches to session.request when a session is supplied and to the existing module-level requests.request otherwise — so default (no session) behavior is byte-for-byte unchanged

• session is propagated through the same existing pattern already used for proxy/timeout/user_agent (InterfaceConfiguration → FalconInterface → UberInterface/OAuth2 → ServiceClass/BaseServiceClass), including ServiceClass.override() custom routes

• FalconPy never calls .close() on a caller-provided session; the caller retains full ownership of its lifecycle (e.g. via a with requests.Session() as session: block)

• No global/module-level session is introduced — session is scoped to the auth object / harness instance the caller constructs

• Added tests/test_session_support.py (18 tests) and tests/test_session_connection_reuse.py (2 tests), both fully mocked / local-only — no live credentials or internet access required

• Added util/session_benchmark.py, a local loopback benchmark demonstrating the connection-reuse mechanism without requiring API credentials

• Added samples/authentication/session_reuse.py and a corresponding section in samples/authentication/README.md

• Enhancement

• Updated unit tests

• Documentation

• Code sample

Unit test coverage

$ coverage run --rcfile=util/coverage.config -m pytest -q tests/test_session_support.py tests/test_session_connection_reuse.py
....................                                                     [100%]
20 passed in 1.25s

Coverage of every file touched by this change (new session tests only, in isolation):
Name                                                 Stmts   Miss  Cover
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src/falconpy/_api_request/_request.py                  116     15    87%
src/falconpy/_api_request/_request_connection.py        10      0   100%
src/falconpy/_auth_object/_falcon_interface.py         286     93    67%
src/falconpy/_auth_object/_interface_config.py          49      5    90%
src/falconpy/_auth_object/_uber_interface.py            52     22    58%
src/falconpy/_service_class/_base_service_class.py     123     32    74%
src/falconpy/_service_class/_service_class.py          117     37    68%
src/falconpy/_util/_functions.py                       461    217    53%
src/falconpy/_util/_service.py                           3      0   100%
src/falconpy/_util/_uber.py                             53     29    45%
src/falconpy/api_complete/_advanced.py                  62     21    66%
src/falconpy/api_complete/_legacy.py                   204     70    66%
src/falconpy/oauth2.py                                  33      8    76%
------------------------------------------------------------------------
TOTAL                                                 1569    549    65%

(These files carry substantial pre-existing coverage from the rest of the suite; the numbers above reflect only the two new session-focused test files run in isolation, not full project coverage. Every new branch introduced by this change — session vs. no-session in perform_request, login/logout with/without session, APIHarnessV2, legacy APIHarness, ServiceClass.override() — is exercised.)

I do not currently have CrowdStrike API credentials available to run the full live-API test suite (util/run-tests.sh) from this environment. I ran it against placeholder credentials purely to validate that this change introduces no collection/import errors and no new failures: all 577 non-manual tests still collect cleanly, and I diff-checked the full failure set against an unmodified main checkout under identical placeholder-credential conditions — byte-for-byte identical failures (confirmed on the 8 files most relevant to this change: test_authentications.py, test_authorization.py, test_uber.py, test_uber_api_complete.py, test_service_class.py, test_hosts.py, test_timeout.py, test_result_object.py — 82/82 identical failures, all attributable to the absence of real API responses, not this change). Happy to have a maintainer re-run against live credentials as an extra check.

Bandit analysis

$ bandit -r src
Test results:
	No issues identified.

Code scanned:
	Total lines of code: 135632
	Total lines skipped (#nosec): 0

Run metrics:
	Total issues (by severity):
		Undefined: 0
		Low: 0
		Medium: 0
		High: 0
	Total issues (by confidence):
		Undefined: 0
		Low: 0
		Medium: 0
		High: 0

flake8, pylint (10.00/10), and pydocstyle all pass with zero findings against src/falconpy.

Added features and functionality

• Added session keyword argument to OAuth2, APIHarnessV2 (via UberInterface), the legacy APIHarness, and every Service Class (via ServiceClass/BaseServiceClass) — reuses a requests.Session across login, every API call, token renewal, and logout.
  • _util/_functions.py
  • _api_request/_request.py
  • _api_request/_request_connection.py
  • _auth_object/_interface_config.py
  • _auth_object/_falcon_interface.py
  • _auth_object/_uber_interface.py
  • oauth2.py
  • _util/_service.py
  • _util/_uber.py
  • _service_class/_base_service_class.py
  • api_complete/_legacy.py

  Unit testing expanded to complete code coverage of every new branch.

  • tests/test_session_support.py
  • tests/test_session_connection_reuse.py

Issues resolved

• No existing issue filed. This is a proactively contributed enhancement, not a bug fix.

Other

• Benchmark: I measured ~948 ms/request against the live CrowdStrike API without a session, versus ~273 ms/request with a persistent session — comparable to the ~269 ms/request already achieved by the existing NG-SIEM pooled-session client (_ngsiem/_session_manager.py), which was the inspiration for exposing this same pattern more broadly. Those numbers come from earlier testing against the live API and aren't reproduced in this PR's CI-equivalent run (no credentials available there). To back that up with something independently reproducible by any reviewer, I added util/session_benchmark.py, a local loopback benchmark requiring no credentials or internet access, which produced a real, reproducible 2.18x speedup from connection reuse alone (isolating the TCP-handshake-avoidance mechanism, without TLS or real network latency, so it understates the live-API improvement):

  Without session (requests.request per call):  mean 0.72 ms
  With session (requests.Session reused):        mean 0.33 ms
  Mean speedup: 2.18x
  

• Backward compatibility: no breaking changes. Default behavior (no session=) is unchanged — verified explicitly in TestSessionDefaultBehaviorUnchanged, which asserts the module-level requests.request is still used and requests.Session is never instantiated internally when the keyword is omitted.
• Design note: the alternative of always using an internally-managed Session was considered and rejected — it would silently change behavior for every existing caller (connection pooling, cookie persistence, trust_env interactions). Making this strictly opt-in with an unchanged default is the more conservative and appropriate choice for a widely-used SDK.
• Usage example:

  with requests.Session() as session:
      falcon = APIHarnessV2(client_id=client_id, client_secret=client_secret, session=session)
      response = falcon.command("query_devices_by_filter")
  # session is closed here by the caller's `with` block, not by FalconPy

• Author's note: I was a CrowdStrike engineer until last month, and I'm contributing this from an external position now. This idea came directly from watching high-volume automation workloads pay a repeated TCP/TLS handshake cost on every single call — the NG-SIEM ingestion path already solves this internally with a pooled SessionManager, and this PR makes the same capability available generically across the SDK's main request path, opt-in and fully backward compatible.

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