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Dropping a view unbinds its name and leaves the definition dataset to a server-side cleanup job, so the two are separate events a caller may want to wait on. `drop_view_async` returns that job — the same shape `drop_materialized_view_async` and `drop_function_async` already use: a `202` carries the job id, a `200` (nothing was bound to the name) yields an already-finished job with no id, and any other success status is an error rather than a silent no-op. ## `drop_view` waits `drop_view` now awaits the job before returning, so a caller who does not want to think about cleanup gets the stronger guarantee: when it returns, the definition really is deleted. That is deliberately **different** from `drop_materialized_view` and `drop_function`, which return as soon as the name is unbound and document that content may still be deleting. The view API is the newer one, and waiting is the semantic worth having; the other two are left alone rather than changing behaviour already released. ## Surfaces `Database` trait, the remote client, `Connection`, and the Python and Node bindings — matching where `drop_materialized_view_async` is already exposed. Four client tests cover the accepted case reporting its job id, the nothing-bound case reporting a finished job, a `202` without a usable `job_id`, and an unexpected success status.
LanceDB Documentation
LanceDB docs are available at docs.lancedb.com.
The SDK docs are 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 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