Support for Tables

[EisenbergEffect]

Is support for Tables planned for this library? Any ETA on that? I'd prefer to use the modern APIs as apposed to those available in the older library which supports tables. Thanks!

[XiaoningLiu]

@EisenbergEffect

Thanks for your feedback.
Table is not planned in the scope of this repository, please use the legacy SDK. Will update if there are any updates.

[EisenbergEffect]

@XiaoningLiu Can you expound on why it's not planned? Is it simply a matter of resources? or are Tables being phased out or something like that? I'm planning to use Tables in an app so I just want to make sure I'm making decisions that aren't going to cause me problems down the road.

[szul]

Seconded. The Bot Framework Node.JS SDK dropped ATS support with the v4 release. If this is going to be a thing across the board, and Microsoft is phasing out ATS, please let the community know.

[XiaoningLiu]

@EisenbergEffect @szul Table support is just not planned as the scope of this repository. It will not affect the table service.

[EisenbergEffect]

It's just a shame that if you need table storage you have to use the legacy SDK 😢 If you are the PM for this library, please track support for tables as a customer request or pass this along to the person who is the PM.

More broadly speaking, it's definitely more customer-friendly, and more competitive with Amazon/Google to have a unified, modern set of JS libraries for all of Azure. What I would expect is a monorepo with packages for each azure service written in TypeScript with consistency of types and API styles across all of Azure. If there's someone I need to talk to to convince them of this, please point me in the right direction.

Thanks!

[szul]

@EisenbergEffect The Bot Framework team seemed to imply that removing ATS support in the BotBuilder libraries was a matter of team bandwidth. It just surprises me to see this newer Azure storage SDK also seem to infer the same thing, since this is the official NodeJS repo 😕

[XiaoningLiu]

It's a non technical decision. Already forwarded feedback to our PM. Thanks for supporting.

[szul]

@XiaoningLiu Much appreciated.

[yannick-mamudo]

+1 Would also love to see table support on V10 or at least a notice if the rumors on ATS deprecation are true.

[EisenbergEffect]

If there is a plan to deprecate ATS, I'd certainly like to know ASAP.

[seguler]

Hello folks - I am a product manager on the Azure Storage engineering team and would like to clarify a few things here. Currently, there are no plans to deprecate the Azure Table Storage service, it is just our colleagues at CosmosDB (@wmengmsft) is now responsible for releasing Table libraries, and have not yet released a library in this new design. The issue is just a matter of time to be addressed, and will certainly not persist forever :)

Rest assured we are working on unifying the SDK story across Azure, and aim to provide the same design for each Azure service. We also plan to move this repository to a unified Azure SDK repository in the future just like you (@EisenbergEffect) expect.

[EisenbergEffect]

@seguler Thank you so much for following up! We all get a little nervous when we consider something possibly going away that we have critical dependencies on. It's great to hear that Azure Table Storage is sticking around. Also, great news on the unified SDK. I'm looking forward to that and if you need any community peer review on that, I'm happy to contribute as well. Cheers!