remove embedding object and use dicts instead

.github/workflows/test_python.yml

@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ jobs:
       - name: Set up Python
         uses: actions/setup-python@v4
         with:
-          python-version: '3.x'
-          cache: 'pip'
+          python-version: "3.11"
+          cache: "pip"
       - name: Install dependencies
         run: |
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip

python/starpoint/_utils.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import logging
-from typing import Dict, Optional
+from typing import Dict, Optional, List
 from uuid import UUID
 
 import requests
@@ -102,3 +102,13 @@ def _check_collection_identifier_collision(
         raise ValueError(NO_COLLECTION_VALUE_ERROR)
     elif collection_id and collection_name:
         raise ValueError(MULTI_COLLECTION_VALUE_ERROR)
+
+
+def _ensure_embedding_dict(embeddings: List[float] | Dict[str, List[float] | int] | None):
+    if isinstance(embeddings, list):
+        dict_embeddings = {
+                "values": embeddings,
+                "dimensionality": len(embeddings)
+            }
+        return dict_embeddings
+    return embeddings

python/starpoint/db.py

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 import validators
 
 from starpoint import reader, writer, _utils
-from starpoint.embedding import Embedding
 
 LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -88,7 +87,7 @@ def insert(
 
     def column_insert(
         self,
-        embeddings: List[Embedding],
+        embeddings: List[Dict[str, List[float] | int]],
         document_metadatas: List[Dict[Any, Any]],
         collection_id: Optional[str] = None,
         collection_name: Optional[str] = None,
@@ -127,7 +126,7 @@ def query(
         sql: Optional[str] = None,
         collection_id: Optional[str] = None,
         collection_name: Optional[str] = None,
-        query_embedding: Optional[List[float] | Embedding] = None,
+        query_embedding: Optional[List[float] | Dict[str, List[float] | int]] = None,
         params: Optional[List[Any]] = None,
         text_search_query: Optional[List[str]] = None,
         text_search_weight: Optional[float] = None,
@@ -143,6 +142,7 @@ def query(
             collection_name: The collection's name where the query will happen.
                 This or the `collection_id` needs to be provided.
             query_embedding: An embedding to query against the collection using similarity search.
+                This is of the shape {"values": List[float], "dimensionality": int}
             params: values for parameterized sql
 
         Returns:
@@ -154,12 +154,6 @@ def query(
             requests.exceptions.SSLError: Failure likely due to network issues.
         """
 
-        # check if query embedding is a float, if it is, convert to a embedding object
-        if isinstance(query_embedding, list):
-            query_embedding = Embedding(
-                vectors=query_embedding,
-                dim=len(query_embedding))
-
         return self.reader.query(
             sql=sql,
             collection_id=collection_id,
@@ -231,7 +225,8 @@ def update(
 
     def column_update(
         self,
-        embeddings: List[Embedding],
+        ids: List[str],
+        embeddings: List[Dict[str, List[float] | int]],
         document_metadatas: List[Dict[Any, Any]],
         collection_id: Optional[str] = None,
         collection_name: Optional[str] = None,
@@ -259,6 +254,7 @@ def column_update(
             requests.exceptions.SSLError: Failure likely due to network issues.
         """
         return self.writer.column_update(
+            ids=ids,
             embeddings=embeddings,
             document_metadatas=document_metadatas,
             collection_id=collection_id,

python/starpoint/embedding.py

@@ -30,15 +30,6 @@
 )
 
 
-class Embedding(object):
-    values: List[float]
-    dimensionality: int
-
-    def __init__(self, values: List[float], dimensionality: Optional[int] = None):
-        self.values = values
-        self.dimensionality = len(values) if dimensionality is None else dimensionality
-
-
 class EmbeddingModel(Enum):
     MINILM = "MINI_LM"
 

python/starpoint/reader.py

@@ -9,9 +9,9 @@
     _build_header,
     _check_collection_identifier_collision,
     _validate_host,
+    _ensure_embedding_dict
 )
 
-from starpoint.embedding import Embedding
 
 LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ def query(
         sql: Optional[str] = None,
         collection_id: Optional[str] = None,
         collection_name: Optional[str] = None,
-        query_embeddings: Optional[Embedding] = None,
+        query_embeddings: Optional[Dict[str, int | List[float]] | List[float]] = None,
         params: Optional[List[Any]] = None,
         text_search_query: Optional[List[str]] = None,
         text_search_weight: Optional[float] = None,
@@ -89,10 +89,13 @@ def query(
         )
         """
 
+        # check if type of query embeddings is list of float, if so convert to a dict 
+        query_embeddings = _ensure_embedding_dict(query_embeddings)
+
         request_data = dict(
             collection_id=collection_id,
             collection_name=collection_name,
-            query_embeddings=query_embeddings,
+            query_embedding=query_embeddings,
             sql=sql,
             params=params,
             text_search_query=text_search_query,

python/starpoint/writer.py

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
     _validate_host,
 )
 
-from starpoint.embedding import Embedding
 
 LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -171,7 +170,7 @@ def insert(
 
     def column_insert(
         self,
-        embeddings: List[Embedding],
+        embeddings: List[Dict[str, List[float] | int]],
         document_metadatas: List[Dict[Any, Any]],
         collection_id: Optional[str] = None,
         collection_name: Optional[str] = None,
@@ -282,7 +281,8 @@ def update(
 
     def column_update(
         self,
-        embeddings: List[Embedding],
+        ids: List[str],
+        embeddings: List[Dict[str, List[float] | int]],
         document_metadatas: List[Dict[Any, Any]],
         collection_id: Optional[str] = None,
         collection_name: Optional[str] = None,
@@ -308,15 +308,16 @@ def column_update(
             ValueError: If both collection id and collection name are provided.
             requests.exceptions.SSLError: Failure likely due to network issues.
         """
-        if len(embeddings) != len(document_metadatas):
+        if len(embeddings) != len(document_metadatas) or len(embeddings) != len(ids):
             LOGGER.warning(EMBEDDING_METADATA_LENGTH_MISMATCH_WARNING)
 
         documents = [
             {
+                "id": id,
                 "embeddings": embedding,
                 "metadata": document_metadata,
             }
-            for embedding, document_metadata in zip(embeddings, document_metadatas)
+            for embedding, document_metadata, id in zip(embeddings, document_metadatas, ids)
         ]
 
         return self.update(

python/tests/test_db.py

@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
 from uuid import uuid4
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
-from starpoint.embedding import Embedding
 
 import pytest
 from _pytest.monkeypatch import MonkeyPatch
@@ -47,7 +46,7 @@ def test_client_insert(mock_writer: MagicMock, mock_reader: MagicMock):
 def test_client_column_insert(mock_writer: MagicMock, mock_reader: MagicMock):
     client = db.Client(api_key=uuid4())
 
-    client.column_insert(embeddings=[Embedding([1.1])], document_metadatas=[{"mock": "value"}])
+    client.column_insert(embeddings=[{"values": [1.1], "dimensionality": 1}], document_metadatas=[{"mock": "value"}])
 
     mock_reader.assert_called_once()  # Only called during init
     mock_writer().column_insert.assert_called_once()
@@ -91,7 +90,6 @@ def test_client_update(mock_writer: MagicMock, mock_reader: MagicMock):
 def test_client_column_update(mock_writer: MagicMock, mock_reader: MagicMock):
     client = db.Client(api_key=uuid4())
 
-    client.column_update(embeddings=[Embedding([1.1])], document_metadatas=[{"mock": "value"}])
-
+    client.column_update(ids=["a"], embeddings=[{"values": [1.1], "dimensionality": 1}], document_metadatas=[{"mock": "value"}])
     mock_reader.assert_called_once()  # Only called during init
     mock_writer().column_update.assert_called_once()

python/tests/test_writer.py

@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@
 from requests.exceptions import SSLError
 
 from starpoint import writer
-from starpoint.embedding import Embedding
 
 
 @pytest.fixture(scope="session")
@@ -161,7 +160,10 @@ def test_writer_insert_SSLError(
 
 @patch("starpoint.writer.Writer.insert")
 def test_writer_column_insert(insert_mock: MagicMock, mock_writer: writer.Writer):
-    test_embeddings = [Embedding([0.88]), Embedding([0.71])]
+    test_embeddings = [
+            {"values": [0.88], "dimensionality": 1},
+            {"values": [0.71], "dimensionality": 1}
+        ]
     test_document_metadatas = [{"mock": "metadata"}, {"mock2": "metadata2"}]
     expected_insert_document = [
         {
@@ -189,7 +191,10 @@ def test_writer_column_insert(insert_mock: MagicMock, mock_writer: writer.Writer
 def test_writer_column_insert_collection_id_collection_name_passed_through(
     insert_mock: MagicMock, mock_writer: writer.Writer
 ):
-    test_embeddings = [Embedding([0.88])]
+    test_embeddings = [
+            {"values": [0.88], "dimensionality": 1},
+        ]
+
     test_document_metadatas = [{"mock": "metadata"}]
     expected_insert_document = [
         {
@@ -218,7 +223,10 @@ def test_writer_column_insert_collection_id_collection_name_passed_through(
 def test_writer_column_insert_shorter_metadatas_length(
     insert_mock: MagicMock, mock_writer: writer.Writer, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch
 ):
-    test_embeddings = [Embedding([0.88]), Embedding([0.71])]
+    test_embeddings = [
+            {"values": [0.88], "dimensionality": 1},
+            {"values": [0.71], "dimensionality": 1}
+        ]
     test_document_metadatas = [{"mock": "metadata"}]
     expected_insert_document = [
         {
@@ -248,7 +256,9 @@ def test_writer_column_insert_shorter_metadatas_length(
 def test_writer_column_insert_shorter_embeddings_length(
     insert_mock: MagicMock, mock_writer: writer.Writer, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch
 ):
-    test_embeddings = [Embedding([0.88])]
+    test_embeddings = [
+            {"values": [0.88], "dimensionality": 1},
+        ]
     test_document_metadatas = [{"mock": "metadata"}, {"mock2": "metadata2"}]
     expected_insert_document = [
         {
@@ -338,21 +348,27 @@ def test_writer_update_SSLError(
 
 @patch("starpoint.writer.Writer.update")
 def test_writer_column_update(update_mock: MagicMock, mock_writer: writer.Writer):
-    test_embeddings = [Embedding([0.88]), Embedding([0.71])]
+    ids = ["a", "b"]
+    test_embeddings = [
+            {"values": [0.88], "dimensionality": 1},
+            {"values": [0.71], "dimensionality": 1}
+        ]
     test_document_metadatas = [{"mock": "metadata"}, {"mock2": "metadata2"}]
     expected_update_document = [
         {
+            "id": "a",
             "embeddings": test_embeddings[0],
             "metadata": test_document_metadatas[0],
         },
         {
+            "id": "b",
             "embeddings": test_embeddings[1],
             "metadata": test_document_metadatas[1],
         },
     ]
 
     mock_writer.column_update(
-        embeddings=test_embeddings, document_metadatas=test_document_metadatas
+        ids=ids, embeddings=test_embeddings, document_metadatas=test_document_metadatas
     )
 
     update_mock.assert_called_once_with(
@@ -366,10 +382,12 @@ def test_writer_column_update(update_mock: MagicMock, mock_writer: writer.Writer
 def test_writer_column_update_collection_id_collection_name_passed_through(
     update_mock: MagicMock, mock_writer: writer.Writer
 ):
-    test_embeddings = [Embedding([0.88])]
+    ids = ["a"]
+    test_embeddings = [{"values": [0.88], "dimensionality": 1}]
     test_document_metadatas = [{"mock": "metadata"}]
     expected_update_document = [
         {
+            "id": "a",
             "embeddings": test_embeddings[0],
             "metadata": test_document_metadatas[0],
         },
@@ -378,6 +396,7 @@ def test_writer_column_update_collection_id_collection_name_passed_through(
     expected_collection_name = "mock_name"
 
     mock_writer.column_update(
+        ids=ids,
         embeddings=test_embeddings,
         document_metadatas=test_document_metadatas,
         collection_id=expected_collection_id,
@@ -395,10 +414,15 @@ def test_writer_column_update_collection_id_collection_name_passed_through(
 def test_writer_column_insert_shorter_metadatas_length(
     update_mock: MagicMock, mock_writer: writer.Writer, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch
 ):
-    test_embeddings = [Embedding([0.88]), Embedding([0.71])]
+    ids = ["a", "b"]
+    test_embeddings = [
+            {"values": [0.88], "dimensionality": 1},
+            {"values": [0.71], "dimensionality": 1}
+        ]
     test_document_metadatas = [{"mock": "metadata"}]
     expected_update_document = [
         {
+            "id": "a",
             "embeddings": test_embeddings[0],
             "metadata": test_document_metadatas[0],
         },
@@ -408,7 +432,7 @@ def test_writer_column_insert_shorter_metadatas_length(
     monkeypatch.setattr(writer, "LOGGER", logger_mock)
 
     mock_writer.column_update(
-        embeddings=test_embeddings, document_metadatas=test_document_metadatas
+        ids=ids, embeddings=test_embeddings, document_metadatas=test_document_metadatas
     )
 
     logger_mock.warning.assert_called_once_with(
@@ -425,10 +449,14 @@ def test_writer_column_insert_shorter_metadatas_length(
 def test_writer_column_update_shorter_embeddings_length(
     update_mock: MagicMock, mock_writer: writer.Writer, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch
 ):
-    test_embeddings = [Embedding([0.88])]
+    ids = ["a", "b"]
+    test_embeddings = [
+            {"values": [0.88], "dimensionality": 1},
+        ]
     test_document_metadatas = [{"mock": "metadata"}, {"mock2": "metadata2"}]
     expected_update_document = [
         {
+            "id": "a",
             "embeddings": test_embeddings[0],
             "metadata": test_document_metadatas[0],
         },
@@ -438,7 +466,7 @@ def test_writer_column_update_shorter_embeddings_length(
     monkeypatch.setattr(writer, "LOGGER", logger_mock)
 
     mock_writer.column_update(
-        embeddings=test_embeddings, document_metadatas=test_document_metadatas
+        ids=ids, embeddings=test_embeddings, document_metadatas=test_document_metadatas
     )
 
     logger_mock.warning.assert_called_once_with(