Discussing the Functionality and Structure of Typesense Client Libraries
TLDR Jason explained how Typesense client libraries function and their architecture. Jason and Masahiro guide Joe in his work on the Java client, emphasizing a consistent method call structure across different languages. Joe highlights his progress and difficulties.

Apr 22, 2021 (29 months ago)
Jason
07:13 PMNow, a dev could use any HTTP library in their language of choice to make HTTP calls to those API endpoints, but we're trying to make it easy for everyone to call these endpoints via method calls in their respective languages.
For eg: Instead of making an HTTP call like this to list all collections / indices and set headers:
curl -H "X-TYPESENSE-API-KEY: ${TYPESENSE_API_KEY}" ""
If you use the Python library, you can just call:
client.collections.retrieve()
So the client libraries are thin wrappers around the API and each of them follow similar method calls.
Here's an example of how the Python library can be used: https://github.com/typesense/typesense-python/blob/c0592c8936540397d436d92b634cc40005c42a69/examples/collection_operations.py
Here are all the classes we typically create in each client to support a consistent method invocation pattern across clients: https://github.com/typesense/typesense-python/tree/master/typesense
Most classes are pretty simple. The most complicated piece to port over is the retry logic, where if one Typesense node in a cluster is down, the client will detect it and retry the request to another node, for high availability:
https://github.com/typesense/typesense-python/blob/c0592c8936540397d436d92b634cc40005c42a69/typesense/api_call.py#L86-L129
Jason
07:16 PMAnd the PHP library: https://github.com/typesense/typesense-php/tree/master/src
And the Ruby library: https://github.com/typesense/typesense-ruby/tree/master/lib/typesense
Jason
07:16 PM
Jason
07:18 PM
Apr 23, 2021 (29 months ago)
Masahiro
03:02 AM
Jason
06:02 AMApr 30, 2021 (29 months ago)
Joe
10:21 AMTypesense
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