Yash Raj PandeyandClaude Opus 5.5 5fa30ae404 fix(python): honor explicit Cohere and VoyageAI reranker API keys (#4546)
`CohereReranker` and `VoyageAIReranker` read the environment variable
before the `api_key` argument. When `COHERE_API_KEY` or `VOYAGE_API_KEY`
is set, the reranker ignores an explicit `api_key` and uses the account
from the environment.

The docs say the opposite. `docs/web/integrations/reranking/cohere.mdx`
and `voyageai.mdx` use the environment variable only when `api_key` is
not provided. `JinaReranker` and `WatsonxReranker` already put the
explicit key first, and #4515 makes the same change for
`OpenaiReranker`.

## Fix

`CohereReranker._client` and `VoyageAIReranker._client` now use
`self.api_key` first and the environment variable as the fallback.

## Tests

`python/python/tests/test_reranker_credentials.py` replaces the SDK
module with a stub whose `Client` records the API key. It covers both
keys set, each key alone, and no key. With the stub, the test runs
without `cohere` or `voyageai` installed.

- On `main`, the 2 cases with both keys set fail and the other 6 pass.
With the fix, all 8 pass.
- `test_rerankers.py` with the new file: 24 passed, 13 skipped (the
skipped tests need real API keys).
- `ruff format --check` and `ruff check` (0.9.9) pass on the changed
files.
- I did not build the native extension. I ran the tests against the
lancedb 0.40.0 wheel with the changed files copied over it. In that
wheel, both reranker files are byte-identical to `main` before this
change.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-23 03:22:53 +08:00
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