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API to query features materialized to offline

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#289 opened on May 20, 2022

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Description

Today for features materialized to online(Redis), we provide a simple API to query it.

Some users may want to materialize features to offline store(delta lake) and query it later on. This API doesn't exist yet.

We should add this API so users can query features generated by Feathr.

The API should be consistent with online API:

    res = client.get_online_features(online_test_table, '265', [
                                     'f_location_avg_fare', 'f_location_max_fare'])

    res = client.multi_get_online_features(online_test_table,
                                           ['239', '265'],
                                           ['f_location_avg_fare', 'f_location_max_fare'])

The API can be like(this is still up for discussion):

feathrClient.getFeatures([f1, f2], feature_table)

feathrClient.joinFeature([f1, f2], feature_table, observation_table)

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Research direction
Implement a new method in the Python client to query offline features by following the pattern of the existing online feature API. Look at the existing get online features and multi get online features implementations and extend them to work with offline stores like Delta Lake.
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