object_client parameter missing for datasets.open?

[sbalian]

faculty/faculty/datasets/__init__.py

Line 486 in 59d6ad9

def open(project_path, mode="r", temp_dir=None, project_id=None, **kwargs):

Is there a reason this does not have a object_client parameter like the others? How else do you recommend using this outside of the Platform?

[acroz]

Is there a reason this does not have a object_client parameter like the others?

Not particularly, no. open is a convenience function built on the others and I think we just didn't anticipate people using it in the advanced case described below.

How else do you recommend using this outside of the Platform?

The main reason for the object_client parameter is so that these methods can pass around a single client and avoid reconstructing it many times. People are mainly expected to use the profile mechanism and environment variables as the way to configure which deployment to interact with datasets, though this is mostly for historical reasons.