Listing Resources from the Client
Your server has been written to the file currency_server.py, and is now ready to connect to! To start with, create a client that can list the resources available on this server.
This exercise is part of the course
Introduction to Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Exercise instructions
- Inside the server session context, retrieve the available resources.
- Loop through
response.resourcesand print each resource's URI, name, and description using their attributes.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
from mcp import ClientSession, StdioServerParameters
from mcp.client.stdio import stdio_client
async def list_resources():
"""List all available resources from the MCP server."""
params = StdioServerParameters(command=sys.executable, args=["currency_server.py"])
async with stdio_client(params) as (reader, writer):
async with ClientSession(reader, writer) as session:
await session.initialize()
# Get the list of resources
response = ____ ____()
print("Available resources:")
# Print each resource's URI, name, and description
for resource in response.____:
print(f" - {resource.____}")
print(f" Name: {resource.____}")
print(f" Description: {resource.____}")
return response.resources
asyncio.run(list_resources())