Azure-sdk-for-js: Azure storage table sdk seems not supported

[ruowan]

I don't find Azure storage table. Where is SDK I can use it for azure storage table?

[msftbot[bot]]

Thanks for the feedback! We are routing this to the appropriate team for follow-up. cc @xgithubtriage

[XiaoningLiu]

Hi, table is only available in legacy Node.js SDK package “azure-storage”

[pacific202]

Does this mean that Table Storage is going away?

[XiaoningLiu]

No. Table Storage will still be there, new Table SDK is not planned yet.

[pacific202]

So Table Storage won't be fully supported. This seems to me as though Table Storage would not be a good design choice for new applications, and I'll be looking to migrate my existing apps to something else.

[XiaoningLiu]

@dineshmurthy

[andreujuanc]

I don't want to be harsh on anyone, but, few weeks ago I found that the new SDK for Service Bus is very poor, feature wise. And now I find myself in the same spot while trying to query table storage data that has been saved there by another Microsoft product.

I find this very disconcerting.

Personally I like the new SDK's design, but I often have to resolve to Rest APIs to interact with azure. :(

[pacific202]

Note to Azure folks who might be reading this issue...

This is the sort of thing that makes an architect start to evaluate AWS and GCP for migration away from Azure.

[Petermarcu]

We are planning to have an updated version of the Tables libraries that aligns with the Azure SDK guidelines as we have with Blobs, Files, and Queues so far. We aren't at a point where we know concrete dates but we hope to be able to share more in the next couple months and follow that with some previews.

[ahuggins-nhs]

We are planning to have an updated version of the Tables libraries that aligns with the Azure SDK guidelines as we have with Blobs, Files, and Queues so far. We aren't at a point where we know concrete dates but we hope to be able to share more in the next couple months and follow that with some previews.

Git 'er done! This is not a show stopper for our team, as we are promisifying the old library for tables, but it would be nice to drop support for azure-storage library ASAP.

[mpth]

This feels death by a 1000 paper cuts. Maybe I'm just unlucky and I always use the parts of Azure that are getting very little love. Please fix this gap sooner rather than later.

[JonSilver]

I agree. This is a ridiculous situation where nobody seems to own the problem. Time passes, nothing happens. Folks ask, you say "use v2" or "we're talking about it" or even worse "use v12" to which the answer is, of course, "no table storage". In other words, anyone asking just gets the brush-off - "go away and stop bothering us". Someone needs to take charge, assign a team, architect and design the thing, and make it happen. What's the hold up? Did you all just forget to take table storage with you on the SDK journey?

We (Gold Partners, developers) need to use table storage for new solutions. Wrapping requests just to use promises is clunky. The Request JS library is deprecated. Its incredibly hard justifying use of table storage to clients because of all this, because it looks like it's a threatened technology that Microsoft is going to drop. It's been way too long since all the other storage SDKs moved on and tables got left behind. We're all trying to just do our jobs - so give us something we can work with.

[Petermarcu]

Work on Tables is has started. We are hoping to have previews in a couple months.

[msftbot[bot]]

Thanks for the feedback! We are routing this to the appropriate team for follow-up. cc @kushagraThapar, @srinathnarayanan, @southpolesteve, @shurd, @ealsur, @j82w, @anfeldma-ms.

[JonSilver]

Work on Tables is has started. We are hoping to have previews in a couple months.

Thank you for the update, @Petermarcu. It's probably worth 15 minutes of someone's time to spread this piece of excellent news around the various places where table storage support has been discussed. Apart from the code itself, clear consistent communication around js table storage support has been the rarest commodity.

[shaman-apprentice]

https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-js/issues/4573 and this one are duplicates aren't they?

[ramya-rao-a]

Hello all,

Just adding an update here that we will be releasing the first preview next month.

Thanks for your patience!

[mpth]

Great news - thanks for the update!

[ahuggins-nhs]

Oh boy: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-js/tree/master/sdk/tables/azure-tables

[jostyposty]

Oh boy: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-js/tree/master/sdk/tables/azure-tables

Nothing there?

[ahuggins-nhs]

Oh boy: https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-js/tree/master/sdk/tables/azure-tables

Nothing there?

They renamed it. https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-js/tree/master/sdk/tables/data-tables

Developer previews are now available!

[joheredi]

Hello everyone! We are happy to announce that we have released the first Beta of the new Azure Tables SDK. It conforms to our new guidelines on writing JS SDKs for Azure services which ensure it will remain idiomatic, consistent and diagnosable.

You can install it with npm install @azure/data-tables

Please share your feedback on the new design at #11179 and/or report any problems you find in a new GitHub issue. Looking forward to hear from you!

[mpth]

@joheredi looks promising 🙂