When do visibility of artifacts and collections change?¶

Files and collections in LaminDB have the following 3 levels if visibility:

1: “default”, visible in the UI by default, returned from the query results
0: “hidden”, excluded from the query results, notebook artifacts (generated by lamin save) are default to be hidden
-1: “trash”, excluded from the query results, set with .delete()

# !pip install lamindb
!lamin init --storage test-visibility

→ connected lamindb: testuser1/test-visibility

import lamindb as ln
import pandas as pd

→ connected lamindb: testuser1/test-visibility

artifact = ln.Artifact.from_df(pd.DataFrame({"a": [1, 2], "b": [3, 4]}), description="mydf")
artifact.save()

! no run & transform got linked, call `ln.track()` & re-run

Artifact(uid='EV7VqZo8s8L3lBP40000', is_latest=True, description='mydf', suffix='.parquet', type='dataset', size=2063, hash='dA85j_zyux35XCnQIWxdGw', _hash_type='md5', _accessor='DataFrame', visibility=1, _key_is_virtual=True, storage_id=1, created_by_id=1, created_at=2024-10-29 21:25:48 UTC)

New artifact has default visibility 1:

assert artifact.visibility == 1

When you delete an artifact, its visibility is set to -1 (“trash”):

artifact.delete()

→ moved artifact to trash (visibility = -1)

assert artifact.visibility == -1

Files in trash won’t be returned from default queries:

ln.Artifact.filter(description="mydf").all()

<QuerySet []>

Unless you specify visibility=None to see all hidden and trashed artifacts:

ln.Artifact.filter(description="mydf", visibility=None).all()

<QuerySet [Artifact(uid='EV7VqZo8s8L3lBP40000', is_latest=True, description='mydf', suffix='.parquet', type='dataset', size=2063, hash='dA85j_zyux35XCnQIWxdGw', _hash_type='md5', _accessor='DataFrame', visibility=-1, _key_is_virtual=True, storage_id=1, created_by_id=1, created_at=2024-10-29 21:25:48 UTC)]>

You can restore an artifact from trash:

artifact.restore()

assert artifact.visibility == 1

ln.Artifact.filter(description="mydf").all()

<QuerySet [Artifact(uid='EV7VqZo8s8L3lBP40000', is_latest=True, description='mydf', suffix='.parquet', type='dataset', size=2063, hash='dA85j_zyux35XCnQIWxdGw', _hash_type='md5', _accessor='DataFrame', visibility=1, _key_is_virtual=True, storage_id=1, created_by_id=1, created_at=2024-10-29 21:25:48 UTC)]>

Delete test artifact and instance:

artifact.delete(permanent=True)

!lamin delete --force test-visibility

• deleting instance testuser1/test-visibility