Incremental table hints and incremental in resource decorator

dlt/common/destination/typing.py

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 from typing import Optional
 
-from dlt.common.schema.typing import _TTableSchemaBase, TWriteDisposition, TTableReferenceParam
+from dlt.common.schema.typing import (
+    _TTableSchemaBase,
+    TWriteDisposition,
+    TTableReferenceParam,
+)
 
 
 class PreparedTableSchema(_TTableSchemaBase, total=False):

dlt/extract/incremental/typing.py → dlt/common/incremental/typing.py

@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@
 
 from typing import Any, Callable, List, Literal, Optional, Sequence, TypeVar, Union
 
-from dlt.common.schema.typing import TColumnNames
-from dlt.common.typing import TSortOrder
-from dlt.extract.items import TTableHintTemplate
+from dlt.common.typing import TSortOrder, TTableHintTemplate, TColumnNames
 
 TCursorValue = TypeVar("TCursorValue", bound=Any)
 LastValueFunc = Callable[[Sequence[TCursorValue]], Any]
@@ -19,10 +17,12 @@ class IncrementalColumnState(TypedDict):
 
 class IncrementalArgs(TypedDict, total=False):
     cursor_path: str
-    initial_value: Optional[str]
-    last_value_func: Optional[LastValueFunc[str]]
+    initial_value: Optional[Any]
+    last_value_func: Optional[Union[LastValueFunc[str], Literal["min", "max"]]]
+    """Last value callable or name of built in function"""
     primary_key: Optional[TTableHintTemplate[TColumnNames]]
-    end_value: Optional[str]
+    end_value: Optional[Any]
     row_order: Optional[TSortOrder]
     allow_external_schedulers: Optional[bool]
     lag: Optional[Union[float, int]]
+    on_cursor_value_missing: Optional[OnCursorValueMissing]

dlt/common/libs/pyarrow.py

@@ -628,7 +628,14 @@ def row_tuples_to_arrow(
                 " extracting an SQL VIEW that selects with cast."
             )
             json_str_array = pa.array(
-                [None if s is None else json.dumps(s) if not issubclass(type(s), set) else json.dumps(list(s)) for s in columnar_known_types[field.name]]
+                [
+                    (
+                        None
+                        if s is None
+                        else json.dumps(s) if not issubclass(type(s), set) else json.dumps(list(s))
+                    )
+                    for s in columnar_known_types[field.name]
+                ]
             )
             columnar_known_types[field.name] = json_str_array
 

dlt/common/pipeline.py

@@ -48,15 +48,14 @@
 )
 from dlt.common.schema import Schema
 from dlt.common.schema.typing import (
-    TColumnNames,
     TColumnSchema,
     TWriteDispositionConfig,
     TSchemaContract,
 )
 from dlt.common.storages.load_package import ParsedLoadJobFileName
 from dlt.common.storages.load_storage import LoadPackageInfo
 from dlt.common.time import ensure_pendulum_datetime, precise_time
-from dlt.common.typing import DictStrAny, REPattern, StrAny, SupportsHumanize
+from dlt.common.typing import DictStrAny, REPattern, StrAny, SupportsHumanize, TColumnNames
 from dlt.common.jsonpath import delete_matches, TAnyJsonPath
 from dlt.common.data_writers.writers import TLoaderFileFormat
 from dlt.common.utils import RowCounts, merge_row_counts

dlt/common/schema/typing.py

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 from dlt.common.data_types import TDataType
 from dlt.common.normalizers.typing import TNormalizersConfig
-from dlt.common.typing import TSortOrder, TAnyDateTime, TLoaderFileFormat
+from dlt.common.typing import TSortOrder, TAnyDateTime, TLoaderFileFormat, TColumnNames
 
 try:
     from pydantic import BaseModel as _PydanticBaseModel
@@ -132,8 +132,6 @@ class TColumnPropInfo(NamedTuple):
     "timestamp", "iso_timestamp", "iso_date", "large_integer", "hexbytes_to_text", "wei_to_double"
 ]
 TTypeDetectionFunc = Callable[[Type[Any], Any], Optional[TDataType]]
-TColumnNames = Union[str, Sequence[str]]
-"""A string representing a column name or a list of"""
 
 
 class TColumnType(TypedDict, total=False):
@@ -166,6 +164,7 @@ class TColumnSchema(TColumnSchemaBase, total=False):
     variant: Optional[bool]
     hard_delete: Optional[bool]
     dedup_sort: Optional[TSortOrder]
+    incremental: Optional[bool]
 
 
 TTableSchemaColumns = Dict[str, TColumnSchema]

dlt/common/schema/utils.py

@@ -547,6 +547,17 @@ def merge_diff(table: TTableSchema, table_diff: TPartialTableSchema) -> TPartial
     * table hints are added or replaced from diff
     * nothing gets deleted
     """
+
+    incremental_a_col = get_first_column_name_with_prop(
+        table, "incremental", include_incomplete=True
+    )
+    if incremental_a_col:
+        incremental_b_col = get_first_column_name_with_prop(
+            table_diff, "incremental", include_incomplete=True
+        )
+        if incremental_b_col:
+            table["columns"][incremental_a_col].pop("incremental")
+
     # add new columns when all checks passed
     updated_columns = merge_columns(table["columns"], table_diff["columns"])
     table.update(table_diff)

dlt/common/typing.py

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
     Iterator,
     Generator,
     NamedTuple,
+    Sequence,
 )
 
 from typing_extensions import (
@@ -112,6 +113,8 @@ class SecretSentinel:
 
 TSecretStrValue = Annotated[str, SecretSentinel]
 
+TColumnNames = Union[str, Sequence[str]]
+"""A string representing a column name or a list of"""
 TDataItem: TypeAlias = Any
 """A single data item as extracted from data source"""
 TDataItems: TypeAlias = Union[TDataItem, List[TDataItem]]
@@ -126,6 +129,10 @@ class SecretSentinel:
 TLoaderFileFormat = Literal["jsonl", "typed-jsonl", "insert_values", "parquet", "csv", "reference"]
 """known loader file formats"""
 
+TDynHintType = TypeVar("TDynHintType")
+TFunHintTemplate = Callable[[TDataItem], TDynHintType]
+TTableHintTemplate = Union[TDynHintType, TFunHintTemplate[TDynHintType]]
+
 
 class ConfigValueSentinel(NamedTuple):
     """Class to create singleton sentinel for config and secret injected value"""

dlt/destinations/impl/bigquery/bigquery_adapter.py

@@ -4,10 +4,8 @@
 
 from dlt.common.destination import PreparedTableSchema
 from dlt.common.pendulum import timezone
-from dlt.common.schema.typing import (
-    TColumnNames,
-    TTableSchemaColumns,
-)
+from dlt.common.schema.typing import TTableSchemaColumns
+from dlt.common.typing import TColumnNames
 from dlt.destinations.utils import get_resource_for_adapter
 from dlt.extract import DltResource
 from dlt.extract.items import TTableHintTemplate

dlt/destinations/impl/lancedb/lancedb_adapter.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from typing import Any, Dict
 
-from dlt.common.schema.typing import TColumnNames, TTableSchemaColumns
+from dlt.common.schema.typing import TTableSchemaColumns
+from dlt.common.typing import TColumnNames
 from dlt.destinations.utils import get_resource_for_adapter
 from dlt.extract import DltResource
 from dlt.extract.items import TTableHintTemplate

dlt/destinations/impl/qdrant/qdrant_adapter.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from typing import Any
 
-from dlt.common.schema.typing import TColumnNames, TTableSchemaColumns
+from dlt.common.schema.typing import TTableSchemaColumns
+from dlt.common.typing import TColumnNames
 from dlt.extract import DltResource
 from dlt.destinations.utils import get_resource_for_adapter
 

dlt/destinations/impl/weaviate/weaviate_adapter.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from typing import Dict, Any, Literal, Set, get_args
 
-from dlt.common.schema.typing import TColumnNames, TTableSchemaColumns
+from dlt.common.schema.typing import TTableSchemaColumns
+from dlt.common.typing import TColumnNames
 from dlt.extract import DltResource, resource as make_resource
 from dlt.destinations.utils import get_resource_for_adapter
 

dlt/extract/decorators.py

@@ -32,7 +32,6 @@
 from dlt.common.schema.utils import DEFAULT_WRITE_DISPOSITION
 from dlt.common.schema.schema import Schema
 from dlt.common.schema.typing import (
-    TColumnNames,
     TFileFormat,
     TWriteDisposition,
     TWriteDispositionConfig,
@@ -43,7 +42,8 @@
 )
 from dlt.common.storages.exceptions import SchemaNotFoundError
 from dlt.common.storages.schema_storage import SchemaStorage
-from dlt.common.typing import AnyFun, ParamSpec, Concatenate, TDataItem, TDataItems
+from dlt.common.typing import AnyFun, ParamSpec, Concatenate, TDataItem, TDataItems, TColumnNames
+
 from dlt.common.utils import get_callable_name, get_module_name, is_inner_callable
 
 from dlt.extract.hints import make_hints
@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
     TSourceFunParams,
 )
 from dlt.extract.resource import DltResource, TUnboundDltResource, TDltResourceImpl
+from dlt.extract.incremental import TIncrementalConfig
 
 
 @configspec
@@ -446,6 +447,7 @@ def resource(
     selected: bool = True,
     spec: Type[BaseConfiguration] = None,
     parallelized: bool = False,
+    incremental: Optional[TIncrementalConfig] = None,
     _impl_cls: Type[TDltResourceImpl] = DltResource,  # type: ignore[assignment]
 ) -> TDltResourceImpl: ...
 
@@ -468,6 +470,7 @@ def resource(
     selected: bool = True,
     spec: Type[BaseConfiguration] = None,
     parallelized: bool = False,
+    incremental: Optional[TIncrementalConfig] = None,
     _impl_cls: Type[TDltResourceImpl] = DltResource,  # type: ignore[assignment]
 ) -> Callable[[Callable[TResourceFunParams, Any]], TDltResourceImpl]: ...
 
@@ -490,6 +493,7 @@ def resource(
     selected: bool = True,
     spec: Type[BaseConfiguration] = None,
     parallelized: bool = False,
+    incremental: Optional[TIncrementalConfig] = None,
     _impl_cls: Type[TDltResourceImpl] = DltResource,  # type: ignore[assignment]
     standalone: Literal[True] = True,
 ) -> Callable[
@@ -515,6 +519,7 @@ def resource(
     selected: bool = True,
     spec: Type[BaseConfiguration] = None,
     parallelized: bool = False,
+    incremental: Optional[TIncrementalConfig] = None,
     _impl_cls: Type[TDltResourceImpl] = DltResource,  # type: ignore[assignment]
 ) -> TDltResourceImpl: ...
 
@@ -536,6 +541,7 @@ def resource(
     selected: bool = True,
     spec: Type[BaseConfiguration] = None,
     parallelized: bool = False,
+    incremental: Optional[TIncrementalConfig] = None,
     _impl_cls: Type[TDltResourceImpl] = DltResource,  # type: ignore[assignment]
     standalone: bool = False,
     data_from: TUnboundDltResource = None,
@@ -632,6 +638,7 @@ def make_resource(_name: str, _section: str, _data: Any) -> TDltResourceImpl:
             table_format=table_format,
             file_format=file_format,
             references=references,
+            incremental=incremental,
         )
 
         resource = _impl_cls.from_data(
@@ -643,6 +650,10 @@ def make_resource(_name: str, _section: str, _data: Any) -> TDltResourceImpl:
             cast(DltResource, data_from),
             True,
         )
+
+        if incremental:
+            # Reset the flag to allow overriding by incremental argument
+            resource.incremental._from_hints = False
         # If custom nesting level was specified then
         # we need to add it to table hints so that
         # later in normalizer dlt/common/normalizers/json/relational.py
@@ -681,7 +692,7 @@ def _wrap(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> TDltResourceImpl:
         return _wrap
 
     def decorator(
-        f: Callable[TResourceFunParams, Any]
+        f: Callable[TResourceFunParams, Any],
     ) -> Callable[TResourceFunParams, TDltResourceImpl]:
         if not callable(f):
             if data_from:
@@ -1023,7 +1034,7 @@ def get_source() -> DltSource:
 
 
 def defer(
-    f: Callable[TDeferredFunParams, TBoundItems]
+    f: Callable[TDeferredFunParams, TBoundItems],
 ) -> Callable[TDeferredFunParams, TDeferred[TBoundItems]]:
     @wraps(f)
     def _wrap(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> TDeferred[TBoundItems]:

dlt/extract/extract.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 from collections.abc import Sequence as C_Sequence
 from copy import copy
 import itertools
-from typing import Iterator, List, Dict, Any, Optional
+from typing import Iterator, List, Dict, Any, Optional, Mapping
 import yaml
 
 from dlt.common.configuration.container import Container
@@ -17,13 +17,12 @@
     WithStepInfo,
     reset_resource_state,
 )
-from dlt.common.typing import DictStrAny
+from dlt.common.typing import DictStrAny, TColumnNames
 from dlt.common.runtime import signals
 from dlt.common.runtime.collector import Collector, NULL_COLLECTOR
 from dlt.common.schema import Schema, utils
 from dlt.common.schema.typing import (
     TAnySchemaColumns,
-    TColumnNames,
     TSchemaContract,
     TTableFormat,
     TWriteDispositionConfig,
@@ -39,7 +38,7 @@
 
 from dlt.extract.decorators import SourceInjectableContext, SourceSchemaInjectableContext
 from dlt.extract.exceptions import DataItemRequiredForDynamicTableHints
-from dlt.extract.incremental import IncrementalResourceWrapper
+from dlt.extract.incremental import IncrementalResourceWrapper, Incremental
 from dlt.extract.pipe_iterator import PipeIterator
 from dlt.extract.source import DltSource
 from dlt.extract.resource import DltResource