This also renames the new experimental node package to lancedb. The
classic node package remains named vectordb.
The goal here is to avoid introducing piecemeal breaking changes to the
vectordb crate. Instead, once the new API is stabilized, we will
officially release the lancedb crate and deprecate the vectordb crate.
The same pattern will eventually happen with the npm package vectordb.
This PR adds the same consistency semantics as was added in #828. It
*does not* add the same lazy-loading of tables, since that breaks some
existing tests.
This closes#998.
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Co-authored-by: Weston Pace <weston.pace@gmail.com>
This is the start of a more comprehensive refactor and stabilization of
the Rust API. The `Connection` trait is cleaned up to not require
`lance` and to match the `Connection` trait in other APIs. In addition,
the concrete implementation `Database` is hidden.
BREAKING CHANGE: The struct `crate::connection::Database` is now gone.
Several examples opened a connection using `Database::connect` or
`Database::connect_with_params`. Users should now use
`vectordb::connect`.
BREAKING CHANGE: The `connect`, `create_table`, and `open_table` methods
now all return a builder object. This means that a call like
`conn.open_table(..., opt1, opt2)` will now become
`conn.open_table(...).opt1(opt1).opt2(opt2).execute()` In addition, the
structure of options has changed slightly. However, no options
capability has been removed.
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Co-authored-by: Will Jones <willjones127@gmail.com>
A `count_rows` method that takes a filter was recently added to
`LanceTable`. This PR adds it everywhere else except `RemoteTable` (that
will come soon).
* Easy to type
* Handle `String, &str, [String] and [&str]` well without manual
conversion
* Fix function name to be verb
* Improve docstring of Rust.
* Promote `query` and `search()` to public `Table` trait
