## Problem The existing Function `column_status` surface cannot decode the Agent scheduler's `queued` state or the `failure_threshold_reached` and `binding_revision_missing` blocked reasons. It also preserves only the latest refresh job, so a later cancellation can hide an earlier actual failure. ## Change - Adds the `queued`, `failure_threshold_reached`, and `binding_revision_missing` wire states in Rust, Python, and Node. The wire change is additive, while Rust callers must update exhaustive enum matches and public struct literals. - Adds optional `last_failure_job` alongside `last_refresh_job`. The latest cancellation and the most recent actual failure retain separate meanings. - Reuses the canonical Rust `JobFailure` and existing Python/Node `JobFailureInfo` models for nested job failure details instead of introducing a parallel status error model. - Maps the existing public `sql_job_id` field through Node's `JobFailureInfo`. - Keeps `column_status`, `column_statuses`, and `wait_fresh` as the existing API surfaces. There is no new endpoint, row-error list, durable ledger, or unknown-enum fallback. - Documents `queued` versus `running` and the separate latest-attempt and latest-failure jobs in the existing hidden freshness release draft. The new status values are additive but cross-service: `queued`, the two new blocked reasons, and `last_failure_job` require matching Agent/QN and SDK deployments before clients can rely on them. This SDK follow-up does not change the normal `7cc3904a` dependency pin or claim whole ENT-3487 completion. ## Validation The tested private source is `b19c8adbdc936c5976def6c17be47f6d5e3faf3e`, based on product commit `c9bac25ecb8b73b1bd0256bbea65c2621bcf6a94`. The final product docs commit changes generated TypeDoc only. - Rust: 2 selected tests passed, 0 failed, exit 0. The same two Rust blobs are unchanged from their tested `788ef85b` source through `c9bac25e`. - Python: the PyO3 extension built successfully, and the selected native PyO3 SDK test against a mock HTTP REST transport passed 1/0, exit 0. The test requests pinned version 42. - Node: the addon and TypeScript builds passed, Biome passed, and the selected Jest transport test passed 1/0 with 57 filtered tests. Addon SHA-256: `c888e260b61d41e79689ed2f20dd0dc98586a2377ce34f21610b06111734d426`. - Python extension SHA-256: `36c961d8a0cbd2e102a7765f2e47efb4c5af6310baa6262c8e3120407463da2b`. - TypeDoc was generated from the native `native.d.ts` produced by that Node build. A second generation produced no remaining diff. The public diff contains only product, test, and generated API documentation changes. Native runner scripts and preserved compile-failure logs remain private validation evidence. Agent/QN production mapping, mixed-version rollout, and the remaining ENT-3487 server-side work are tracked separately.
LanceDB Documentation
For website guides in docs/web, start with
Documentation in CONTRIBUTING.md. That
covers editing pages, generated examples, previews, availability and drafts.
This page covers the SDK reference in docs/src, built with MkDocs. Its
GitHub Actions workflow builds and deploys on
pushes to main, so it can include unreleased APIs. That is separate from the
release editions of the Mintlify website.
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
Run these commands from the LanceDB repository root. The subshell changes into
docs to load mkdocs.yml, while leaving your shell in the repository root.
(cd docs && PYTHONPATH=. mkdocs serve)
If you want to just generate the HTML files:
(cd docs && PYTHONPATH=. mkdocs build)
If successful, you should see a docs/site directory in the repository root 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 examples depend on @lancedb/lancedb at file:../dist, so the package must be
built before running the tests. This uses pnpm; see the
Typescript contributing guide for the toolchain setup.
pushd nodejs
pnpm install
pnpm build
popd
Then you can run the examples by going to the nodejs/examples directory, which is a
separate pnpm package with its own lockfile:
pushd nodejs/examples
pnpm install
pnpm 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
# `pnpm docs` would invoke pnpm's built-in `docs` command, not the script.
pnpm run docs
popd