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- # Temporary Holding Version
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+ # @antfly/embedded
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- This version is a temporary placeholder for this package. An operational version to replace this has been submitted for review and is awaiting a staged release.
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+ Node.js binding for embedded Antfly databases and inference -- the stable `libantfly` C ABI --
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+ using [koffi](https://koffi.dev) for FFI (prebuilt binaries, no node-gyp).
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+ Applications embed a live `.aflite` database directly in the Node process
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+ instead of talking to the network SDK.
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+
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+ **Node-only.** This package uses koffi to load a native shared library and
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+ does not work in browsers. Antfly Lite also ships a separate WebAssembly
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+ build for browser use; this package is unrelated to that build.
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+
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+ ## Installation
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pnpm add @antfly/embedded
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+ ```
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+
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+ Published platform packages include the Apache-2.0 `libantfly` library,
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+ without installing CLI commands or an unused worker executable.
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+ Prebuilt embedded packages support Linux x86-64 and ARM64 with glibc 2.28
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+ or newer, and macOS ARM64. Windows, Intel macOS, and Alpine/musl do not
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+ have prebuilt language packages. The native release archive matrix is
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+ separate; a source build or native archive does not imply wheel/npm support.
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+ Source checkouts
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+ can build the shared library with "Library discovery" below. From the
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+ `antfly` monorepo source tree, build it
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+ with `cd zig && zig build lite` (produces `zig/zig-out/lib/libantfly.*`);
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+ this package does not build it for you.
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+
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+ ## Quick start
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+
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+ ```typescript
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+ import { create, THREADING_SERIALIZED, threadingMode } from "@antfly/embedded";
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+
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+ // `await using` calls Symbol.asyncDispose, which closes the handle.
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+ await using db = await create("my.aflite");
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+
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+ await db.batch(
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+ [{ key: "doc:1", value: { title: "hello", body: "world" } }],
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+ BigInt(Date.now()) * 1_000_000n // nanoseconds
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+ );
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+
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+ const doc = await db.lookup("doc:1"); // parsed JSON
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+ const raw = await db.lookupRaw("doc:1"); // raw JSON bytes (Buffer)
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+
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+ const hits = await db.search({
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+ full_text_search: { match: { field: "body", text: "world" } },
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+ limit: 5,
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+ });
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+
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+ console.log(threadingMode() === THREADING_SERIALIZED); // true
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+ ```
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+
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+ Without top-level `await using` support, call `close()` explicitly (ideally
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+ in a `finally` block), or rely on the best-effort `FinalizationRegistry`
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+ cleanup as a last resort.
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+
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+ ## Async-first, thread-safe by design
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+
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+ Every operation that touches an open handle is **async** and runs on koffi's
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+ native worker thread pool via `fn.async(...)`, so database work never blocks
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+ the Node event loop and concurrent calls actually run in parallel. Only cheap
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+ metadata calls that never touch a handle -- `abiVersion()`, `threadingMode()`,
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+ `validateAbi()`, `errorCodeName()` / `errorCodeDescription()` -- are
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+ synchronous.
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+
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+ `libantfly` runs in **serialized threading mode** (`antfly_threading_mode()`
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+ == `THREADING_SERIALIZED`, like `sqlite3_threadsafe()`): any thread may call
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+ any function on any handle concurrently. Reads (`lookup`, `search`, `scan`,
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+ `stats`, ...) run in parallel with each other and with writes; writes on one
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+ handle queue behind each other instead of failing with `BusyError`; and
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+ schema/index/enrichment changes wait for in-flight calls. See
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+ `zig/CAPI.md`'s "Thread Safety" section for the full contract. A `Database`
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+ is safe to share across any number of concurrent async operations -- open one
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+ handle per file, not one per call.
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+
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+ ### koffi's worker thread pool size
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+
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+ koffi dispatches async calls through Node's native async-work queue, which
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+ runs on **libuv's shared threadpool** (the same pool used by `fs`, `dns`,
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+ `zlib`, and `crypto.pbkdf2`). Its default size is 4 threads
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+ (`UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE`, max 1024). If your application needs more than 4
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+ truly concurrent native calls in flight (across `@antfly/embedded` and any other
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+ libuv-threadpool consumer), set `UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE` **before the Node
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+ process starts** (it cannot be changed at runtime):
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ UV_THREADPOOL_SIZE=16 node app.js
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+ ```
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+
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+ `koffi.config()` additionally controls per-call memory pool sizing
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+ (`async_stack_size`, `async_heap_size`, `resident_async_pools`,
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+ `max_async_calls`) but does not change the number of worker threads; the
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+ defaults are sufficient for this binding since `antfly_buffer` outputs are a
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+ small fixed-size struct (the pointed-to bytes are heap-allocated by
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+ `libantfly`, not stack/heap-marshaled by koffi).
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+
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+ ### Close semantics
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+
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+ `db.close()` is idempotent and safe to call concurrently. It:
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+
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+ 1. Immediately rejects (with `InvalidArgumentError`) any new call made after
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+ `close()` has started.
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+ 2. Waits for every call this binding has already dispatched (queued on
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+ koffi's worker pool, or actively executing) to settle.
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+ 3. Only then calls the native `antfly_db_close`, and marks the handle closed.
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+
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+ This extra bookkeeping exists because `antfly_db_close` only drains C calls
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+ that have already **entered** the library; a koffi async call can be queued
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+ on the libuv threadpool but not yet dequeued ("entered") when `close()`
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+ starts. Freeing the handle while such a call is still queued would be a
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+ use-after-free once that call finally runs. `@antfly/embedded` tracks its own
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+ in-flight promises (comparable to the Go binding's `sync.RWMutex` held around
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+ every call, exclusively in `Close`) so this can never happen.
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+
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+ `await using` (`Symbol.asyncDispose`) calls `close()` for you. A
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+ `FinalizationRegistry` also closes the handle as a best-effort fallback if a
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+ `Database` is garbage-collected without an explicit `close()` -- do not rely
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+ on this for anything but leak mitigation; it is not deterministic.
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+
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+ ## Library discovery
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+
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+ `@antfly/embedded` resolves the `libantfly` shared library in this order:
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+
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+ 1. **`ANTFLY_LIBRARY`** environment variable -- an exact file path. Throws if
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+ the file does not exist (fails loudly rather than silently falling
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+ through).
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+ 2. **`ANTFLY_LIB_DIR`** environment variable -- a directory expected to
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+ contain the platform library file (see below). Throws if the file is
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+ missing from that directory.
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+ 3. The installed Apache **`@antfly/embedded-<platform>`** package's `lib/` directory,
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+ resolved via `require.resolve`.
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+ 4. **`zig/zig-out/lib/`** found by walking up from this package's own
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+ directory -- for running against a local `antfly` monorepo source
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+ checkout.
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+ 5. The bare **system loader name**, resolved by the OS's normal shared
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+ library search path (`LD_LIBRARY_PATH` / `DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH` / `PATH` /
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+ rpath), matching the Go binding's fallback.
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+
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+ Platform file names: `libantfly.dylib` (macOS), `libantfly.so` (Linux),
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+ `antfly.dll` (Windows).
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+
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+ Call `resolveLibrary()` yourself to see which tier resolved and why, without
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+ loading the library.
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+
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+ ### Embedded inference
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+
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+ `libantfly` runs inference **in-process**, in the calling process, on every
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+ backend -- Metal, CUDA, ONNX, and CPU alike -- for both `Database` (with
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+ `localRuntimeConfigured: true`) and the standalone `Inference` handle below.
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+ There is no separate worker process and no `ANTFLY_INFERENCE_WORKER`
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+ variable to configure. This is the trade SQLite makes for extensions that
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+ touch a GPU driver: a call that reaches the device or driver has no per-call
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+ abort, so `callTimeoutMs` and `close()` only take effect once the call
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+ returns, and a driver fault terminates the process. Calls on CPU backends
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+ still stop cooperatively. (The `antfly` server instead runs these backends
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+ in a worker process it can kill and restart; a library cannot do that to its
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+ host program.) See `zig/CAPI.md`'s "Inference In Process" section for the
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+ full rationale.
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+
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+ ### `Inference`: embedded inference without a database
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+
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+ `Inference.open(options?)` starts the embedded inference runtime with no
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+ database attached -- models load on first use and stay cached until
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+ `close()`. Each call sends the request JSON and returns the response JSON of
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+ the matching `/ai/v1` route of the Antfly inference HTTP API
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+ (`specs/openapi/inference/api.yaml`):
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+ ```typescript
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+ import { Inference } from "@antfly/embedded";
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+ const inf = await Inference.open({ modelsDir: "/path/to/models" });
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+ try {
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+ const { data } = (await inf.chunk({
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+ input: "Ants live in colonies. Workers gather food.",
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+ })) as { data: unknown[] };
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+
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+ const embeddings = await inf.embed({ model: "owner/name", input: ["hello"] });
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+ } finally {
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+ await inf.close();
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ For decision question types and examples, see the
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+ [typed decision guide](../../../docs/guides/decisions.md).
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+
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+ - **Calls**: `embed`, `rerank`, `chunk`, `generate`, `generateBatch`,
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+ `rewrite`, `decide`, `extract`, `read` (OCR), `transcribe`, `listModels` -- each with
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+ a bare form (parsed JSON) and a `...Raw` form (raw `Buffer`), following the
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+ same convention as `Database`. Binary inputs (images, audio) go inline in
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+ the request JSON, as base64 or `data:` URIs. Responses are always
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+ complete: a `generate` request with `"stream": true` rejects with
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+ `InvalidArgumentError` -- use `generateStream()` to stream.
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+ - **Errors**: every failed inference call still gets a JSON error body from
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+ `libantfly` (`{"error": ..., "message": ...}`); this binding folds it into
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+ the thrown `AntflyError`'s message and exposes the parsed body as
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+ `.body`, in addition to the usual `.code`/`.codeName`. A model that is not
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+ installed rejects with `NotFoundError` (`.body.error === "MODEL_NOT_FOUND"`).
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+ - **`generateStream(request, onChunk)`** streams a generate request (the
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+ same body as `generate()`, with `"stream"` set for you). `onChunk` is
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+ called **synchronously, on the calling thread**, once per streamed chunk
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+ (a parsed `chat.completion.chunk` JSON object). Returning `false` from
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+ `onChunk` stops generation early and the call rejects with
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+ `CancelledError`; a thrown error also stops generation and is rethrown.
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+ Like `pull()` below, `generateStream()` runs synchronously and blocks the
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+ Node event loop for its duration -- the same koffi callback-threading
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+ constraint applies, which is why this binding exposes a callback rather
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+ than an async iterator (an async iterator would need the call running off
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+ the JS thread, which a koffi callback cannot do safely). `generateStreamRaw`
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+ gives `onChunk` the raw per-chunk `Buffer` instead of parsed JSON.
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+ - **`pull(request, onProgress?, signal?)`** downloads a model from the
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+ Hugging Face Hub into the handle's models directory, like
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+ `antfly inference pull`: `{ model: "owner/name[:variant]", variants?,
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+ token?, tasks?, capabilities?, projector?, maxArtifactBytes?,
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+ maxModelBytes? }` (as request JSON; field names follow the HTTP API, e.g.
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+ `"model"`). The optional `onProgress` callback is called synchronously, on
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+ the calling thread, as each file starts, every 16 MiB, and as it
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+ completes. Returning `false` from `onProgress` cancels the pull -- the
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+ call then rejects with `CancelledError`, and completed files stay staged,
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+ so a later `pull()` for the same model resumes rather than restarts; a
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+ thrown error also cancels the pull and is rethrown. The optional `signal`
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+ (`AbortSignal`) is a best-effort, honestly-limited convenience on top of
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+ that: because `pull()` blocks the JS thread for its whole duration, there
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+ is no way to interrupt it asynchronously the way `fetch(url, { signal })`
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+ can. An already-aborted signal rejects before the pull starts; otherwise
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+ it is only checked at the same report points as `onProgress` -- prefer
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+ returning `false` from `onProgress` when you need precise control.
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+ Unlike every other `Inference`/`Database` call, **`pull()` runs
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+ synchronously and blocks the Node event loop** for its duration -- this is
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+ intentional: JS execution is single-threaded, and a callback koffi
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+ delivers from a background thread (as happens for a call dispatched via
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+ `fn.async(...)`, which runs on koffi's worker thread pool) has to be
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+ queued back onto the JS main thread rather than invoked as a true
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+ blocking round-trip; per koffi's docs that queuing only runs "as soon as
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+ the event loop has a chance to run", which could reorder or delay a
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+ report arbitrarily relative to the (already-freed) native data it points
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+ to, or even deadlock. Calling synchronously keeps the whole call,
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+ including every callback invocation, on one OS thread throughout,
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+ matching the C API's "called on the calling thread" guarantee exactly.
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+ `close()` waits for a pull in progress.
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+ - **Options**: `InferenceOptions` -- `modelsDir` (defaults to
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+ `$ANTFLY_INFERENCE_MODELS_DIR`, else `~/.antfly/inference/models`),
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+ the same `*BudgetMb` resource knobs as `Database`'s `OpenOptions`, and
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+ `callTimeoutMs` (a deadline per call; 0 means none).
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+ - **Lifecycle**: `close()` is idempotent, safe to call concurrently, and
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+ waits for in-flight calls; `Inference` implements `AsyncDisposable`
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+ (`await using`), same as `Database`.
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+
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+ ## ABI validation
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+
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+ `validateAbi()` checks that the loaded library's `antfly_abi_version()`
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+ (expected: 2) and `antfly_open_options` struct size match what this binding
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+ was compiled against, throwing `AbiMismatchError` otherwise. It runs
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+ automatically before every open/create call and before `checkFile()`; call
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+ it yourself at startup to fail fast.
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+
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+ ## Storage kinds
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+
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+ Every open/create call accepts `storage` (`Storage.Lite`, the default, or
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+ `Storage.Directory`) via `OpenOptions.storage`:
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+
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+ - `Storage.Lite` -- a single-file `.aflite` database (this package's usual
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+ use case).
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+ - `Storage.Directory` -- a normal single-node Antfly directory. Directory
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+ storage is created by opening a missing path with `open`/`openWithOptions`;
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+ `create`/`createWithOptions` only create `.aflite` files.
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+
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+ A portable `.afb` backup (`backup()`) round-trips across storage kinds: it
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+ restores into either kind with the module-level `restore`/`restoreFile`, and
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+ imports into an *empty* database of either kind with `importBackup()`.
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+ `restore(path, backup, { storage, replace })` and
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+ `restoreFile(path, backupPath, { storage, replace })` select the destination
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+ kind with `storage` (default `Storage.Lite`); the `.aflite` suffix is only
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+ required client-side when the destination is `Storage.Lite`.
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+
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+ ## JSON conventions
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+
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+ Every request parameter that accepts a JSON body (`request`, `config`,
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+ `schema`, ...) accepts a plain object (JSON.stringify'd), a JSON string, or
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+ raw UTF-8 bytes (`Buffer` / `Uint8Array`).
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+
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+ Every JSON-returning operation has two forms:
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+
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+ - The bare name (e.g. `lookup`, `search`, `status`) returns **parsed JSON**
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+ (typed as `unknown`, or a specific interface for `Status` /
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+ `Capabilities` / the maintenance reports).
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+ - The `...Raw` suffix (e.g. `lookupRaw`, `searchRaw`, `statusRaw`) returns
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+ the **raw JSON bytes** as a `Buffer`, skipping the parse.
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+ The packed **wire** searches (`denseSearchWire`, `textMatchWire`,
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+ `textTermWire`, `textMatchPhraseWire`) are a different, non-JSON binary
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+ format matching the server's wire protocol; they always take and return raw
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+ bytes (`Buffer` / `Uint8Array`), never JSON.
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+
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+ `getRaw(key)` is the one exception to the naming scheme above: it mirrors
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+ `antfly_db_get_raw` / the Go binding's `Raw(key)`, returning the document's
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+ raw stored bytes (not JSON at all, since a document need not be JSON at the
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+ storage layer).
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+
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+ Timestamps and versions that are `uint64_t` in the C ABI (`timestampNs`,
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+ `expectedVersion`, `commitVersion`, `busyTimeoutMs`, ...) accept both
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+ `number` and `bigint`; use `bigint` where precision matters; a nanosecond
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+ Unix timestamp exceeds `Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER`, so `commitVersion()`
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+ always returns `bigint`.
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+
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+ ## Errors
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+
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+ Every failed call rejects with an `AntflyError` subclass carrying:
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+
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+ - `.code` -- the numeric `antfly_error_code`.
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+ - `.codeName` -- the stable symbolic name, e.g. `"ANTFLY_BUSY"`, matching
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+ `antfly_error_code_name()`.
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+ - `.message` -- built from `antfly_error_code_description()`.
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+
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+ Subclasses: `InvalidArgumentError` (1), `NotFoundError` (2),
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+ `VersionConflictError` (3), `IntentConflictError` (4), `TxnNotFoundError` (5),
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+ `BusyError` (6), `OutcomeUnknownError` (7, not safe to retry automatically --
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+ publication may have succeeded but crash durability could not be confirmed),
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+ `UnsupportedError` (8, not transient), `StalledError` (9, a bounded drain
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+ like `runUntilIdle` made no progress and gave up), `CancelledError` (10, the
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+ caller returned `false` from an `Inference.pull()` `onProgress` or
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+ `Inference.generateStream()` `onChunk` callback -- a callback that throws
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+ instead stops the operation the same way, but rejects with the thrown error
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+ itself, not `CancelledError`), `InternalError` (255).
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+
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+ ## API surface
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+
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+ Mirrors `go/pkg/embedded`'s surface idiomatically:
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+
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+ - **Open/create**: `create`, `open`, `openReadonly`, `openStatusOnly`,
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+ `openHosted`, `createHosted`, `openWithOptions`, `createWithOptions`, plus
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+ `OpenOptions` (including `storage`), `Storage`, `OpenMode`, `Profile`,
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+ `TxnStatus`, `GraphDirection`, `InferenceMode`, `THREADING_SERIALIZED`.
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+ - **`Database`**: `close()`, `[Symbol.asyncDispose]`; `batch`/`batchJson`;
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+ `lookup`/`lookupRaw`/`getRaw`; `scan`/`search`/`stats`; `status`,
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+ `capabilities`, `check`, `pendingWorkStats`, `runUntilIdle` /
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+ `runUntilIdleStatus`, `replayGeneratedEnrichments`; `getSchema`/
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+ `setSchema`; `listIndexes`/`addIndex`/`deleteIndex` (returns `boolean`);
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+ `listEnrichments`/`addEnrichment`/`deleteEnrichment`; graph
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+ (`edges`/`neighbors`/`traverseEdges`/`executeGraphQueries`/
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+ `findShortestPath`/`findKShortestPaths`/`matchPattern`); wire searches
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+ (`denseSearchWire`/`textMatchWire`/`textTermWire`/`textMatchPhraseWire`);
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+ `aggregateHits`, `lookupArtifact`; `extractEnrichments`/
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+ `computeEnrichments`; transactions (`beginTransaction`/`writeTransaction`/
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+ `resolveTransaction`/`transactionStatus`/`commitVersion` -- 16-byte
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+ transaction ids accepted as a `Uint8Array(16)` or a 32-char hex string);
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+ `backup`/`importBackup`, `backupToFile`; `compact`/`vacuum`/
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+ `copyStableSnapshot`.
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+ - **Module-level**: `checkFile`, `restore`/`restoreFile` (both take
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+ `RestoreOptions` -- `{ storage, replace }`), `copyStableSnapshotFile`,
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+ `decodeArtifactId`, `abiVersion`, `threadingMode`, `validateAbi`.
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+ - **`Inference`**: `Inference.open(options?)`, `close()`,
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+ `[Symbol.asyncDispose]`; `embed`/`rerank`/`chunk`/`generate`/
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+ `generateBatch`/`rewrite`/`extract`/`read`/`transcribe`/`listModels`
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+ (each with a `...Raw` form); `generateStream(request, onChunk)` /
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+ `generateStreamRaw`; `pull(request, onProgress?, signal?)`; plus
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+ `InferenceOptions`, `PullProgress`, `CancelledError`,
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+ `validateInferenceAbi`. See "Embedded inference" above.
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+
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+ See `src/index.ts` for the full export list and `src/types.ts` for typed
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+ `Status` / `Capabilities` / report interfaces.
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+
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+ ## Testing
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+
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+ ```bash
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+ pnpm run typecheck
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+ pnpm run lint
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+ pnpm run build
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+ pnpm run test # skips native-library tests cleanly if libantfly isn't found
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+ ANTFLY_LITE_REQUIRE_LIBRARY=1 pnpm run test # fails instead of skipping if libantfly isn't found
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+ ANTFLY_LIBRARY=/nonexistent pnpm run test # exercises the clean-skip path directly
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+ ```
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+
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+ `test/conformance.test.ts` runs every case under
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+ `zig/pkg/antfly-embedded/capi-conformance/cases/*.json` through this public API,
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+ mirroring `go/pkg/embedded/conformance_cgo_test.go`'s semantics, including the
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+ `storage`-typed opens and the `import_backup`/`restore_open` cross-storage
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+ cases. `test/storage.test.ts` adds coverage beyond conformance: restoring a
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+ `.aflite` backup into directory storage and reopening it. `test/
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+ concurrency.test.ts` covers mixed concurrent operations, `close()` racing
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+ in-flight calls, `busyTimeoutMs` behavior, and that concurrent searches
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+ overlap instead of serializing on the event loop. `test/errors.test.ts` and
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+ `test/discovery.test.ts` include pure tests that need no native library at
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+ all. `test/package.test.ts` builds and packs the package, then verifies CommonJS
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+ and ESM discovery in isolated Node processes outside a checkout. It checks all
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+ three platform packages and package-relative source discovery in installation
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+ paths containing spaces, `#`, and `?`, without loading the fixture libraries. `test/inference.test.ts` covers the `Inference` handle: open/close,
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+ calls that need no model (`chunk`, `listModels`), missing-model
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+ `NotFoundError` for both `embed` and `generateStream`, `pull({})`/
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+ streaming-`generate`/malformed-JSON-`generateStream` `InvalidArgumentError`
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+ cases, an optional real-embedding test gated on a locally installed Qwen
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+ model, an optional `generateStream` test gated on a locally installed Gemma
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+ generate model (`~/.antfly/inference/models/ggml-org/gemma-4-e2b-it-gguf*`)
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+ covering both a normal multi-chunk stream and cancelling after two chunks
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+ (`CancelledError`, exactly two `onChunk` calls), and a network-gated
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+ `pull()` test (`ANTFLY_INFERENCE_PULL_TEST_MODEL`, e.g.
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+ `sparse-encoder-testing/splade-bert-tiny-nq-onnx`) that cancels on the first
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+ progress report (`CancelledError`, model still absent from `listModels()`),
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+ then pulls the same model to completion with progress callbacks.
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+
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+ ## License
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+
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+ Apache-2.0
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+
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+ ## SQL, Kysely, and multiple tables
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+
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+ `Connection` provides a promise-based SQL session over a `Database`:
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+
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+ ```ts
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+ import { create, Connection } from "@antfly/embedded";
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+ const database = await create("app.aflite");
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+ const connection = await Connection.open(database);
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+ await connection.execute("CREATE TABLE people (id BIGINT PRIMARY KEY, name TEXT)");
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+ await connection.transaction(async tx => {
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+ await tx.execute("INSERT INTO people (id,name) VALUES ($1,$2)", [1n, "Ada"]);
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+ });
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+ const result = await connection.query("SELECT id,name FROM people");
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+ for await (const page of connection.stream("SELECT id,name FROM people", [], 128)) {
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+ console.log(page.rows);
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+ }
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+ await connection.close();
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+ await database.close();
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+ ```
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+
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+ `query` reads all native cursor pages; `stream` yields bounded pages. Integer
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+ columns use `bigint`, SQL NULL uses `null`, and JSON uses JavaScript values.
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+ Use bigint parameters when values exceed JavaScript's safe integer range.
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+ Errors carry `sqlstate` and an optional `transactionId`.
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+
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+ Install Kysely 0.29 and import the optional dialect subpath:
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+
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+ ```ts
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+ import { Kysely } from "kysely";
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+ import { AntflyDialect } from "@antfly/embedded/kysely";
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+ const sql = new Kysely<{ people: { id: bigint; name: string } }>({
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+ dialect: new AntflyDialect({ database }),
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+ });
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+ const people = await sql.selectFrom("people").selectAll().execute();
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+ await sql.destroy(); // The caller still owns database.
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+ ```
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+
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+ `createTable`, `listTables`, `openTable`, and `dropTable` expose the shared
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+ document catalog. Table handles reuse existing schema, index, enrichment,
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+ search, and document methods. Close them before dropping their tables;
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+ database close invalidates them.
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+
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+ Portable `.afb` archives back up the entire database: its table catalog,
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+ schemas, documents, indexes, enrichments, and constraint records. Call backup
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+ on the database handle. Restore publishes all tables together into either
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+ Lite or directory storage; import requires an empty database with no open
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+ table handles, SQL sessions, or cursors. Table handles cannot export or import
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+ backups.
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+
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+ See [the native SQL contract](../../../zig/CAPI.md#database-sql) for
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+ READ COMMITTED, savepoints, transactional DDL restrictions, and commit outcomes.