Pydantic

Pydantic is a data validation library in Python. LanceDB integrates with Pydantic for schema inference, data ingestion, and query result casting.

Schema

LanceDB supports to create Apache Arrow Schema from a Pydantic BaseModel via pydantic_to_schema() method.

lancedb.pydantic.pydantic_to_schema(model: Type[pydantic.BaseModel]) -> pa.Schema

Convert a Pydantic model to a PyArrow Schema.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
model	Type[BaseModel]	The Pydantic BaseModel to convert to Arrow Schema.	required

Returns:

Type	Description
Schema

Examples:

>>> from typing import List, Optional
>>> import pydantic
>>> from lancedb.pydantic import pydantic_to_schema
>>> class FooModel(pydantic.BaseModel):
...     id: int
...     s: str
...     vec: List[float]
...     li: List[int]
...
>>> schema = pydantic_to_schema(FooModel)
>>> assert schema == pa.schema([
...     pa.field("id", pa.int64(), False),
...     pa.field("s", pa.utf8(), False),
...     pa.field("vec", pa.list_(pa.float64()), False),
...     pa.field("li", pa.list_(pa.int64()), False),
... ])

Source code in lancedb/pydantic.py

def pydantic_to_schema(model: Type[pydantic.BaseModel]) -> pa.Schema:
    """Convert a Pydantic model to a PyArrow Schema.

    Parameters
    ----------
    model : Type[pydantic.BaseModel]
        The Pydantic BaseModel to convert to Arrow Schema.

    Returns
    -------
    pyarrow.Schema

    Examples
    --------

    >>> from typing import List, Optional
    >>> import pydantic
    >>> from lancedb.pydantic import pydantic_to_schema
    >>> class FooModel(pydantic.BaseModel):
    ...     id: int
    ...     s: str
    ...     vec: List[float]
    ...     li: List[int]
    ...
    >>> schema = pydantic_to_schema(FooModel)
    >>> assert schema == pa.schema([
    ...     pa.field("id", pa.int64(), False),
    ...     pa.field("s", pa.utf8(), False),
    ...     pa.field("vec", pa.list_(pa.float64()), False),
    ...     pa.field("li", pa.list_(pa.int64()), False),
    ... ])
    """
    fields = _pydantic_model_to_fields(model)
    return pa.schema(fields)

Vector Field

LanceDB provides a Vector(dim) method to define a vector Field in a Pydantic Model.

lancedb.pydantic.Vector(dim: int, value_type: pa.DataType = pa.float32()) -> Type[FixedSizeListMixin]

Pydantic Vector Type.

Warning

Experimental feature.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
dim	int	The dimension of the vector.	required
value_type	DataType	The value type of the vector, by default pa.float32()	float32()

Examples:

>>> import pydantic
>>> from lancedb.pydantic import Vector
...
>>> class MyModel(pydantic.BaseModel):
...     id: int
...     url: str
...     embeddings: Vector(768)
>>> schema = pydantic_to_schema(MyModel)
>>> assert schema == pa.schema([
...     pa.field("id", pa.int64(), False),
...     pa.field("url", pa.utf8(), False),
...     pa.field("embeddings", pa.list_(pa.float32(), 768), False)
... ])

Source code in lancedb/pydantic.py

def Vector(
    dim: int, value_type: pa.DataType = pa.float32()
) -> Type[FixedSizeListMixin]:
    """Pydantic Vector Type.

    !!! warning
        Experimental feature.

    Parameters
    ----------
    dim : int
        The dimension of the vector.
    value_type : pyarrow.DataType, optional
        The value type of the vector, by default pa.float32()

    Examples
    --------

    >>> import pydantic
    >>> from lancedb.pydantic import Vector
    ...
    >>> class MyModel(pydantic.BaseModel):
    ...     id: int
    ...     url: str
    ...     embeddings: Vector(768)
    >>> schema = pydantic_to_schema(MyModel)
    >>> assert schema == pa.schema([
    ...     pa.field("id", pa.int64(), False),
    ...     pa.field("url", pa.utf8(), False),
    ...     pa.field("embeddings", pa.list_(pa.float32(), 768), False)
    ... ])
    """

    # TODO: make a public parameterized type.
    class FixedSizeList(list, FixedSizeListMixin):
        def __repr__(self):
            return f"FixedSizeList(dim={dim})"

        @staticmethod
        def dim() -> int:
            return dim

        @staticmethod
        def value_arrow_type() -> pa.DataType:
            return value_type

        @classmethod
        def __get_pydantic_core_schema__(
            cls, _source_type: Any, _handler: pydantic.GetCoreSchemaHandler
        ) -> CoreSchema:
            return core_schema.no_info_after_validator_function(
                cls,
                core_schema.list_schema(
                    min_length=dim,
                    max_length=dim,
                    items_schema=core_schema.float_schema(),
                ),
            )

        @classmethod
        def __get_validators__(cls) -> Generator[Callable, None, None]:
            yield cls.validate

        # For pydantic v1
        @classmethod
        def validate(cls, v):
            if not isinstance(v, (list, range, np.ndarray)) or len(v) != dim:
                raise TypeError("A list of numbers or numpy.ndarray is needed")
            return cls(v)

        if PYDANTIC_VERSION.major < 2:

            @classmethod
            def __modify_schema__(cls, field_schema: Dict[str, Any]):
                field_schema["items"] = {"type": "number"}
                field_schema["maxItems"] = dim
                field_schema["minItems"] = dim

    return FixedSizeList

Type Conversion

LanceDB automatically convert Pydantic fields to Apache Arrow DataType.

Current supported type conversions:

Pydantic Field Type	PyArrow Data Type
int	pyarrow.int64
float	pyarrow.float64
bool	pyarrow.bool
str	pyarrow.utf8()
list	pyarrow.List
BaseModel	pyarrow.Struct
Vector(n)	pyarrow.FixedSizeList(float32, n)