DatabaseRef is a name and a location. The configuration places databases
through lancedb.databases alone; with none configured the default is the
entry haiku.rag under storage.data_dir, selectable like any other.
lancedb.uri is removed, and a config carrying it fails to load with the
replacement spelled out. A path passed from Python is valid where the
configuration places nothing and raises AmbiguousDatabaseError beside
lancedb.databases; haiku-rag --db and haiku-ingester --db construct the
scope directly, so a human's override keeps working. Every database
answers to a name, and a database given as a path keeps its own errors.
Store, connect_lancedb, gather_database_info and run_doctor take a
location, a path or a URI, and classify it with ConnectionMode.of.
SingleDatabaseSession owns the resolved DatabaseRef and passes its
location down. This removes DatabaseRef.connection(), default_db_path,
the placeholder path for URI-backed databases and the per-database
config copies, so the configuration a client holds is the one the caller
gave it. The chat hands its capabilities the scope it opened along with
the client it lends, and the v0.58.0 migration no longer checks local
free disk for a database behind a URI.
Comments and docstrings across the branch narrated rejected
alternatives, consequences and history; each now states the current
contract. Renames test_a_legacy_uri_client_keeps_its_error to
test_an_unnamed_database_keeps_its_error. Documents the Sandbox
connection paths, the citation header's database segment, both
AmbiguousDatabaseError conditions on create_app, and run_inspector's
scope parameter. Doc paragraphs added by the branch in python.md,
storage.md and cli.md are one physical line each.
A name nothing covers raised `KeyError` in four places and
`AmbiguousDatabaseError` in a fifth, so a caller had to catch both and neither
name said what happened. `UnknownDatabaseError` is all of them, exported from
`haiku.rag.store` beside the other errors.
It subclasses `KeyError`, since selecting by name is a lookup, and prints its
message plainly rather than quoted as a missing key. Both CLIs turn it into the
same clean exit they already gave the others.
Closes#582. `lancedb.databases` entries already classify a location by
whether it carries a scheme; `lancedb.uri` was taken as a URI whatever it
said, so a local path was opened as object storage and a mistyped one
became a new empty database instead of failing. Both settings now place a
database the same way, and `--db PATH` overrides either.
The CLI decides only what it knows — that --db and --database are the same
thing said twice, and whether a command reads more than one — and hands the
resolved scope down. Nothing rewrites the configuration, so a named database
keeps the name results and citations carry, and a remote one opens the URI
it was configured with rather than the local path standing in for it.
HaikuRAGApp, ChatApp and InspectorApp take that scope and nothing else.
Selection reaches the client through a private constructor, so the public
signature still takes a path or names.
FederatedSession opens the databases a query covers and owns their
teardown; the client keeps the wrappers it hands out. A wrapper releases
what it built and never closes the database it borrowed.
DatabaseScope.resolve reads configuration and at most one selector; a
DatabaseRef carries the configured name and a location already resolved to
a URI or a path, so a path a caller names is never reinterpreted. Nothing
consumes it yet.
