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## 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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Class: abstract Connection

A LanceDB Connection that allows you to open tables and create new ones.

Connection could be local against filesystem or remote against a server.

A Connection is intended to be a long lived object and may hold open resources such as HTTP connection pools. This is generally fine and a single connection should be shared if it is going to be used many times. However, if you are finished with a connection, you may call close to eagerly free these resources. Any call to a Connection method after it has been closed will result in an error.

Closing a connection is optional. Connections will automatically be closed when they are garbage collected.

Any created tables are independent and will continue to work even if the underlying connection has been closed.

Methods

close()

abstract close(): void

Close the connection, releasing any underlying resources.

It is safe to call this method multiple times.

Any attempt to use the connection after it is closed will result in an error.

Returns

void


createEmptyTable()

createEmptyTable(name, schema, options)

abstract createEmptyTable(
   name,
   schema,
   options?): Promise<Table>

Creates a new empty Table

Parameters
  • name: string The name of the table.

  • schema: SchemaLike The schema of the table

  • options?: Partial<CreateTableOptions> Additional options (backwards compatibility)

Returns

Promise<Table>

createEmptyTable(name, schema, namespace, options)

abstract createEmptyTable(
   name,
   schema,
   namespace?,
   options?): Promise<Table>

Creates a new empty Table

Parameters
  • name: string The name of the table.

  • schema: SchemaLike The schema of the table

  • namespace?: string[] The namespace to create the table in (defaults to root namespace)

  • options?: Partial<CreateTableOptions> Additional options

Returns

Promise<Table>


createTable()

createTable(options, namespace)

abstract createTable(options, namespace?): Promise<Table>

Creates a new Table and initialize it with new data.

Parameters
  • options: object & Partial<CreateTableOptions> The options object.

  • namespace?: string[] The namespace to create the table in (defaults to root namespace)

Returns

Promise<Table>

createTable(name, data, options)

abstract createTable(
   name,
   data,
   options?): Promise<Table>

Creates a new Table and initialize it with new data.

Parameters
  • name: string The name of the table.

  • data: TableLike | Record<string, unknown>[] Non-empty Array of Records to be inserted into the table

  • options?: Partial<CreateTableOptions> Additional options (backwards compatibility)

Returns

Promise<Table>

createTable(name, data, namespace, options)

abstract createTable(
   name,
   data,
   namespace?,
   options?): Promise<Table>

Creates a new Table and initialize it with new data.

Parameters
  • name: string The name of the table.

  • data: TableLike | Record<string, unknown>[] Non-empty Array of Records to be inserted into the table

  • namespace?: string[] The namespace to create the table in (defaults to root namespace)

  • options?: Partial<CreateTableOptions> Additional options

Returns

Promise<Table>


display()

abstract display(): string

Return a brief description of the connection

Returns

string


dropAllTables()

abstract dropAllTables(namespace?): Promise<void>

Drop all tables in the database.

Parameters

  • namespace?: string[] The namespace to drop tables from (defaults to root namespace).

Returns

Promise<void>


dropTable()

abstract dropTable(name, namespace?): Promise<void>

Drop an existing table.

Parameters

  • name: string The name of the table to drop.

  • namespace?: string[] The namespace of the table (defaults to root namespace).

Returns

Promise<void>


isOpen()

abstract isOpen(): boolean

Return true if the connection has not been closed

Returns

boolean


openTable()

abstract openTable(
   name,
   namespace?,
   options?): Promise<Table>

Open a table in the database.

Parameters

  • name: string The name of the table

  • namespace?: string[] The namespace of the table (defaults to root namespace)

  • options?: Partial<OpenTableOptions> Additional options

Returns

Promise<Table>


tableNames()

tableNames(options)

abstract tableNames(options?): Promise<string[]>

List all the table names in this database.

Tables will be returned in lexicographical order.

Parameters
  • options?: Partial<TableNamesOptions> options to control the paging / start point (backwards compatibility)
Returns

Promise<string[]>

tableNames(namespace, options)

abstract tableNames(namespace?, options?): Promise<string[]>

List all the table names in this database.

Tables will be returned in lexicographical order.

Parameters
  • namespace?: string[] The namespace to list tables from (defaults to root namespace)

  • options?: Partial<TableNamesOptions> options to control the paging / start point

Returns

Promise<string[]>