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* Add new wait_for_index() table operation that polls until indices are created/fully indexed * Add an optional wait timeout parameter to all create_index operations * Python and NodeJS interfaces <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **New Features** - Added optional waiting for index creation completion with configurable timeout. - Introduced methods to poll and wait for indices to be fully built across sync and async tables. - Extended index creation APIs to accept a wait timeout parameter. - **Bug Fixes** - Added a new timeout error variant for improved error reporting on index operations. - **Tests** - Added tests covering successful index readiness waiting, timeout scenarios, and missing index cases. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
LanceDB Documentation
LanceDB docs are deployed to https://lancedb.github.io/lancedb/.
Docs is built and deployed automatically by Github Actions
whenever a commit is pushed to the main branch. So it is possible for the docs to show
unreleased features.
Building the docs
Setup
- Install LanceDB Python. See setup in Python contributing guide.
Run
make developto install the Python package. - Install documentation dependencies. From LanceDB repo root:
pip install -r docs/requirements.txt
Preview the docs
cd docs
mkdocs serve
If you want to just generate the HTML files:
PYTHONPATH=. mkdocs build -f docs/mkdocs.yml
If successful, you should see a docs/site directory that you can verify locally.
Adding examples
To make sure examples are correct, we put examples in test files so they can be run as part of our test suites.
You can see the tests are at:
- Python:
python/python/tests/docs - Typescript:
nodejs/examples/
Checking python examples
cd python
pytest -vv python/tests/docs
Checking typescript examples
The @lancedb/lancedb package must be built before running the tests:
pushd nodejs
npm ci
npm run build
popd
Then you can run the examples by going to the nodejs/examples directory and
running the tests like a normal npm package:
pushd nodejs/examples
npm ci
npm test
popd
API documentation
Python
The Python API documentation is organized based on the file docs/src/python/python.md.
We manually add entries there so we can control the organization of the reference page.
However, this means any new types must be manually added to the file. No additional
steps are needed to generate the API documentation.
Typescript
The typescript API documentation is generated from the typescript source code using typedoc.
When new APIs are added, you must manually re-run the typedoc command to update the API documentation. The new files should be checked into the repository.
pushd nodejs
npm run docs
popd