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Daniel Rammer a651b67c76 feat: bring the MemWAL LSM surface to parity across the SDKs
Four of the eight LSM methods are remote-only in the core: `impl BaseTable
for NativeTable` implements only set/unset/get_lsm_write_spec and
close_lsm_writers, while flush_lsm, compact_lsm and get_lsm_stats fall
through to trait defaults returning NotSupported. That is why Node had
bound the four that work locally and stopped, and why the remaining four
had no binding-level coverage anywhere.

Node: add napi bindings for flush_lsm, compact_lsm, checkpoint_lsm and
get_lsm_stats, with typed LsmStats/BucketStats/GenerationStats/
MemtableStats objects mirroring the existing LsmWriteSpec object in the
same file. Tests assert each binding reaches the core and surfaces
NotSupported locally; behavior against a real endpoint stays covered by
the mocked-endpoint tests in rust/lancedb/src/remote/table.rs.

Python: LsmWriteSpec was importable only from the private lancedb._lancedb
-- it appeared in table.py solely under `if TYPE_CHECKING:`. Export it as
lancedb.LsmWriteSpec, add it to __all__, and list it in the API reference,
which had no mention of it and so rendered it nowhere.

Java: add the LSM routes to lancedb-core. Java reaches LanceDB purely over
REST through the generated namespace client, and these routes are not in
the Lance Namespace spec, so they are issued through a small dedicated
client. LsmWriteSpec is deliberately not org.lance.memwal.
InitializeMemWalParams: that type defaults to maintaining no indexes where
a spec here defaults to maintaining every index, and it cannot express the
null that asks the server to resolve the set. checkpointLsm is ported from
rust/lancedb/src/table/checkpoint.rs with its constants and status
semantics intact -- 429/503 retried in place, 421 restarting from flush.

Note: `mvnw spotless:apply` cannot run on JDK 21 (google-java-format 1.7,
pinned in java/pom.xml, predates JDK 16's compiler API change). This is
pre-existing and reproduces on a pristine main checkout; the Java sources
here were formatted by hand to the checkstyle rules.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 14:42:37 -05:00

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# LanceDB Java Enterprise Client
## Configuration and Initialization
### LanceDB Cloud
For LanceDB Cloud, use the simplified builder API:
```java
import com.lancedb.LanceDbNamespaceClientBuilder;
import org.lance.namespace.LanceNamespace;
// If your DB url is db://example-db, then your database here is example-db
LanceNamespace namespaceClient = LanceDbNamespaceClientBuilder.newBuilder()
.apiKey("your_lancedb_cloud_api_key")
.database("your_database_name")
.build();
```
### LanceDB Enterprise
For Enterprise deployments, use your custom endpoint:
```java
LanceNamespace namespaceClient = LanceDbNamespaceClientBuilder.newBuilder()
.apiKey("your_lancedb_enterprise_api_key")
.database("your_database_name")
.endpoint("<your_enterprise_endpoint>")
.build();
```
## MemWAL LSM write path
Most table operations reach LanceDB through the `LanceNamespace` above, which is
generated from the Lance Namespace specification. The MemWAL LSM routes are not part
of that specification, so they are issued through a separate client:
```java
import com.lancedb.LanceDbRestClient;
import com.lancedb.LanceDbTableLsm;
import com.lancedb.LsmWriteSpec;
LanceDbRestClient client = LanceDbNamespaceClientBuilder.newBuilder()
.apiKey("your_lancedb_cloud_api_key")
.database("your_database_name")
.buildRestClient();
LanceDbTableLsm lsm = new LanceDbTableLsm(client, "my_table");
// Route future merge_insert upserts through the MemWAL, hash-bucketed by `id`.
lsm.setLsmWriteSpec(LsmWriteSpec.bucket("id", 16));
// ... merge_insert traffic ...
// Converge the fresh tier into the base table.
lsm.checkpointLsm();
// Inspect live per-bucket state.
lsm.getLsmStats().ifPresent(stats -> System.out.println(stats.get("buckets")));
client.close();
```
`maintainedIndexes` is tri-state, and the null default is the opposite of what a Java
reader usually expects:
| Value | Meaning |
| --- | --- |
| unset (null) | Maintain **every** index the MemWAL can, resolved on install |
| `Collections.emptyList()` | Maintain **none** |
| `Arrays.asList("id_idx")` | Maintain exactly those |
## Development
Build:
```shell
./mvnw install -pl lancedb-core -am
```
Run tests:
```shell
./mvnw test -pl lancedb-core
```