LocalBulkWriter

A LocalBulkWriter instance rewrites your raw data locally in a format that Milvus understands.

class pymilvus.LocalBulkWriter

Constructor

Constructs a LocalBulkWriter object by schema, output path, segment size, and file type.

from pymilvus import CollectionSchema, LocalBulkWriter, BulkFileType

writer = LocalBulkWriter(
    schema=CollectionSchema(),
    local_path="string",
    segment_size=512*1024*1024,
    file_type=BulkFileType.NPY
)

PARAMETERS:

• schema (CollectionSchema) -

  [REQUIRED]

  The schema of a target collection to which the rewritten data is to be imported.

• local_path (str) -

  [REQUIRED]

  The path to the directory that is to hold the rewritten data.

• segment_size (int) -

  The maximum size of a file segment.

  While rewriting your raw data, Milvus splits your raw data into segments.

  The value defaults to 536,870,912 in bytes, which is 512 MB.

  how does bulkwriter segment my data?

  The way BulkWriter segments your data varies with the target file type.

  • JSON_RB or Parquet

  If the generated file exceeds the specified segment size, BulkWriter creates multiple files and names them in sequence numbers, each no larger than the segment size.

  • NPY

  If the generated file exceeds the specified segment size, BulkWriter creates multiple subdirectories and names them in sequence numbers. Each subdirectory contains all the necessary NumPy files that are no larger than the segment size.

• file_type (BulkFileType) -

  The type of the output file.

  The value defaults to BulkFileType.NPY.

  Possible options are BulkFileType.NPY, BulkFileType.JSON_RB and BulkFileType.PARQUET.

RETURN TYPE:

LocalBulkWriter

RETURNS:

A LocalBulkWriter object.

EXCEPTIONS:

• SchemaNotReadyException

  This exception will be raised when the provided schema is invalid.

Properties

• uuid (str) -

  A randomly generated UUID, used to name the output file or directory, with JSON, Parquet, and NumPy formats supported.

• data_path (pathlib.PosixPath) -

  The path to the output directory.

• batch_files (str) -

  A list of the generated file names.