allye_data_connector

allye_data_connector is a local connector that lets you exchange pandas.DataFrame objects between Python and Allye widgets.

It works by appending events to a line-delimited manifest file (manifest.jsonl) and storing the actual Arrow payload either in:

• OS shared memory (fast, for smaller data), or
• a memory-mappable file on disk (for larger data).

Installation

From PyPI:

pip install allye_data_connector

From source (development):

pip install -e .

If you haven't installed Allye yet, please download and install it from here.

Quickstart

Send a DataFrame to Allye Canvas:

import pandas as pd
import seaborn as sns

import allye_data_connector
df = sns.load_dataset("iris")
allye_data_connector.send_dataframe(df, table_name='iris')

Use Allye's Allye Data Receiver widget to receive the dataframe data and perform visualizations.

Get Data from Canvas / Read it back:

Use Allye's Allye Data Transmitter widget to send Allye data, receive it on the Jupyter side, and execute subsequent processing.

df = allye_data_connector.get_dataframe('iris_setosa_versicolor')
df.head()

List available tables:

tables = adc.list_tables()
for t in tables:
    print(t["table_name"], t["transport"], t["shape"])

How it works (high level)

1. send_dataframe() appends a status="writing" event to manifest.jsonl.
2. The DataFrame is serialized to Apache Arrow:
   • transport="auto" uses shared memory when the payload is below max_shm_bytes
   • otherwise it falls back to writing Arrow IPC files under payloads/ (chunked by chunk_rows)
3. A final status="ready" event is appended with a payload reference (transport + locator).
4. get_dataframe() scans the manifest for the latest status="ready" entry matching table_name (and optional producer), then loads the Arrow payload back into a DataFrame.

Features

• Send/receive DataFrames with send_dataframe() and get_dataframe()
• Local, file-based coordination via manifest.jsonl (append-only)
• Automatic transport selection (transport="auto") based on size
• Optional TTL + garbage collection for payload cleanup (gc())
• Producer filtering (e.g., read only entries produced by Allye widgets)

Cleanup (optional)

If you send with ttl_sec=..., the payload gets an expiration timestamp. You can remove expired payloads with:

adc.gc(dry_run=False)

gc(dry_run=True) (default) only reports what would be removed.

Notes

• This is a local IPC-oriented connector; it does not do networking or authentication.
• Very large DataFrames may exceed OS shared memory limits; the implementation automatically falls back to disk-backed Arrow files.