1. Refactored every client (Rust core, Python, Node/TypeScript) so
“namespace” usage is explicit: code now keeps namespace paths
(namespace_path) separate from namespace clients (namespace_client).
Connections propagate the client, table creation routes through it, and
managed versioning defaults are resolved from namespace metadata. Python
gained LanceNamespaceDBConnection/async counterparts, and the
namespace-focused tests were rewritten to match the clarified API
surface.
2. Synchronized the workspace with Lance 5.0.0-beta.3 (see
https://github.com/lance-format/lance/pull/6186 for the upstream
namespace refactor), updating Cargo/uv lockfiles and ensuring all
bindings align with the new namespace semantics.
3. Added a namespace-backed code path to lancedb.connect() via new
keyword arguments (namespace_client_impl, namespace_client_properties,
plus the existing pushdown-ops flag). When those kwargs are supplied,
connect() delegates to connect_namespace, so users can opt into
namespace clients without changing APIs. (The async helper will gain
parity in a later change)
## Summary
This PR introduces a `HeaderProvider` which is called for all remote
HTTP calls to get the latest headers to inject. This is useful for
features like adding the latest auth tokens where the header provider
can auto-refresh tokens internally and each request always set the
refreshed token.
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Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
If we start supporting external catalogs then "drop database" may be
misleading (and not possible). We should be more clear that this is a
utility method to drop all tables. This is also a nice chance for some
consistency cleanup as it was `drop_db` in rust, `drop_database` in
python, and non-existent in typescript.
This PR also adds a public accessor to get the database trait from a
connection.
BREAKING CHANGE: the `drop_database` / `drop_db` methods are now
deprecated.
* Make `npm run docs` fail if there are any warnings. This will catch
items missing from the API reference.
* Add a check in our CI to make sure `npm run dos` runs without warnings
and doesn't generate any new files (indicating it might be out-of-date.
* Hide constructors that aren't user facing.
* Remove unused enum `WriteMode`.
Closes#2068
* Sets `"useCodeBlocks": true`
* Adds a post-processing script `nodejs/typedoc_post_process.js` that
puts the parameter description on the same line as the parameter name,
like it is in our Python docs. This makes the text hierarchy clearer in
those sections and also makes the sections shorter.
We aren't yet ready to switch over the examples since almost all JS
examples rely on embeddings and we haven't yet ported those over.
However, this makes it possible for those that are interested to start
using `@lancedb/lancedb`
