FeatureEngineeringClient and Databricks Connect

[antonioferegrin]

Hello everyone, I want to use Databricks Connect to connect externally to my clusters and run code, and while Databricks connect works without any issue, like this:

```

from databricks.sdk.core import Config

config = Config(cluster_id="XXXX")

spark = SparkSession.builder.sdkConfig(config).getOrCreate()

catalog = "my_test_catalog"

schema = "my_schema"

table = "my_table"

spark.sql(f"CREATE CATALOG IF NOT EXISTS {catalog}")

spark.sql(f"USE CATALOG {catalog}")

spark.sql(f"CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS {schema}")

spark.sql(f"USE SCHEMA {schema}")

```

However, I try to use the `FeatureEngineeringClient` to create a table like this:

```

from databricks.feature_engineering import FeatureEngineeringClient

from pyspark.sql.types import StringType, StructField, StructType, TimestampType

log_message_schema = StructType(

[

StructField("message", StringType(), True),

StructField("application", StringType(), True),

StructField("request_id", StringType(), False),

StructField("timestamp", TimestampType(), False),

StructField("levelname", StringType(), True),

StructField("data", StringType(), True),

StructField("run_id", StringType(), True),

StructField("model_name", StringType(), True),

]

)

feature_engineering_client = FeatureEngineeringClient()

feature_engineering_client.create_table(

name=f"{catalog}.{schema}.{table}_offline",

primary_keys=["request_id", "timestamp"],

timestamp_keys=["timestamp"],

schema=log_message_schema,

)

```

I get an authentication error:

```

Exception: {'error_code': '401', 'message': 'Unauthorized'}

```

Do you know why this could be happening?

[VZLA]

TL;DR Sounds like a limitation.

I believe the doc's paragraph (https://docs.databricks.com/en/machine-learning/feature-store/python-api.html#limitations), "implicitly" but not very clearly, implies that a SparkSession with Access to UC and databricks resources is required; in case of DatabricksConnect it seems like it is not passed to the FEClient during initialization, otherwise it should avoid such Authorization errors.

I assume with this exception, you're also also finding a full stacktrace; you can confirm if the above is indeed the problem by inspecting it, and then identify which code line is raising the exception.

[saurabh18cs]

do you have modify rights on this schema to create a table?

[praful932]

@VZLA 
Is there a plan to support this in the future?

At the moment, it makes development difficult through a local IDE using databricks connect due to this limitation as we are unable to use the Feature Engineering SDK.

Sharing the stacktrace

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Exception                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
Cell In[20], line 1
----> 1 fs_client.fe_client.get_table(name = 'some_table')

File site-packages/databricks/feature_engineering/client.py:547, in FeatureEngineeringClient.get_table(self, name)
    541 self._validate_is_uc_table_name(name)
    542 name = uc_utils.get_full_table_name(
    543     name,
    544     self._spark_client.get_current_catalog(),
    545     self._spark_client.get_current_database(),
    546 )
--> 547 return self._compute_client.get_table(
    548     name=name,
    549     req_context=RequestContext(
    550         request_context.GET_TABLE, request_context.FEATURE_ENGINEERING_CLIENT
    551     ),
    552 )

File site-packages/databricks/ml_features/_compute_client/_compute_client.py:776, in ComputeClient.get_table(self, name, req_context, include_producers)
    774 self._spark_client_helper.check_feature_table_exists(name)
    775 if is_uc_table:
--> 776     feature_table = self._catalog_client_helper.get_feature_table_from_uc_and_online_store_from_fs(
    777         name, req_context, include_producers=include_producers
    778     )
    779 else:
    780     feature_table = self._catalog_client.get_feature_table(
    781         name, req_context, include_producers=include_producers
    782     )

File site-packages/databricks/ml_features/_catalog_client/_catalog_client_helper.py:150, in CatalogClientHelper.get_feature_table_from_uc_and_online_store_from_fs(self, table_name, req_context, include_producers)
    144 def get_feature_table_from_uc_and_online_store_from_fs(
    145     self,
    146     table_name: str,
    147     req_context: RequestContext,
    148     include_producers: bool = False,
    149 ):
--> 150     uc_response = self._databricks_client.get_uc_table(table_name)
    151     feature_table_from_uc = FeatureTable.from_uc_get_table_response(uc_response)
    153     if "table_type" in uc_response and uc_response["table_type"] == "VIEW":

File site-packages/databricks/ml_features/_databricks_client/_databricks_client.py:77, in DatabricksClient.get_uc_table(self, table_name)
     71 url = f"/api/2.1/unity-catalog/tables/{quote(table_name)}"
     72 response = http_request(
     73     self._get_host_creds(),
     74     url,
     75     method="GET",
     76 )
---> 77 verify_rest_response(response, url)
     78 resp_json = response.json()
     79 return resp_json

File site-packages/databricks/ml_features/utils/rest_utils.py:165, in verify_rest_response(response, endpoint)
    162 if response.status_code != 200:
    163     if _can_parse_as_json(response.text):
    164         # ToDo(ML-20622): return cleaner error to client, eg: mlflow.exceptions.RestException
--> 165         raise Exception(json.loads(response.text))
    166     else:
    167         base_msg = (
    168             "API request to endpoint %s failed with error code "
    169             "%s != 200"
   (...)
    173             )
    174         )

Exception: {'error_code': 403, 'message': 'Invalid access token. [TraceId: some_trace_id]'}