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User-facing utilities for custom column generation.

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NameDescription
validate_generator_signatureValidate generator function signature. Returns positional params if valid.
custom_column_generatorDecorator to define metadata for a custom column generator function.

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F EXPECTED_PARAMS

API

1F = TypeVar(...)
1EXPECTED_PARAMS = ()
1data_designer.config.custom_column.validate_generator_signature(fn: typing.Callable[..., typing.Any]) -> list[inspect.Parameter]

Validate generator function signature. Returns positional params if valid.

1data_designer.config.custom_column.custom_column_generator(
2 required_columns: list[str] | None = None,
3 side_effect_columns: list[str] | None = None,
4 model_aliases: list[str] | None = None
5) -> typing.Callable[[data_designer.config.custom_column.F], data_designer.config.custom_column.F]) -> typing.Callable[[data_designer.config.custom_column.F], data_designer.config.custom_column.F]

Decorator to define metadata for a custom column generator function.

Parameters:

required_columns
list[str] | NoneDefaults to None

Columns that must exist before this column runs (DAG ordering).

side_effect_columns
list[str] | NoneDefaults to None

Additional columns the function will create.

model_aliases
list[str] | NoneDefaults to None

Model aliases to include in the models dict (required for LLM access).