.. _anyvar-config:

AnyVar Client Configuration
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AnyVLM employs an `AnyVar <https://anyvar.readthedocs.org/en/stable/>`_ for internal variant storage. AnyVLM defines an internal client abstraction to either connect to AnyVar via HTTP request (:py:class:`~anyvlm.anyvar.http_client.HttpAnyVarClient`) or by instantiating the AnyVar within the AnyVLM process (:py:class:`~anyvlm.anyvar.python_client.PythonAnyVarClient`). The client instance is constructed by the :py:func:`~anyvlm.main.create_anyvar_client` factory function which references the ``ANYVAR_URI`` environmental variable to determine the kind of client.

* If ``ANYVAR_URI`` looks like an HTTP URL (i.e. it starts with ``"http://"`` or ``"https://"``), then an :py:class:`HTTP-based client <anyvlm.anyvar.http_client.HttpAnyVarClient>` is constructed
* Otherwise, a :py:class:`client <anyvlm.anyvar.python_client.PythonAnyVarClient>` will create and manage an AnyVar instance directly within the current process. This can be configured further by AnyVar's own environment variable-based config system. See the `AnyVar docs <https://anyvar.readthedocs.io/en/stable/configuration/index.html>`_ for more information.