Update the instructions for creating a new dataset

Signed-off-by: Deepyaman Datta <deepyaman.datta@utexas.edu>

Author: deepyaman

RELEASE.md

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Upcoming Release 0.19.7
 
 ## Major features and improvements
+* Exposed `load` and `save` publicly for each dataset in the core `kedro` library, and enabled other datasets to do the same. If a dataset doesn't expose `load` or `save` publicly, Kedro will fall back to using `_load` or `_save`, respectively.
 
 ## Bug fixes and other changes
 * Updated error message for invalid catalog entries.

docs/source/data/how_to_create_a_custom_dataset.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 ## AbstractDataset
 
-If you are a contributor and would like to submit a new dataset, you must extend the {py:class}`~kedro.io.AbstractDataset` interface or {py:class}`~kedro.io.AbstractVersionedDataset` interface if you plan to support versioning. It requires subclasses to override the `_load` and `_save` and provides `load` and `save` methods that enrich the corresponding private methods with uniform error handling. It also requires subclasses to override `_describe`, which is used in logging the internal information about the instances of your custom `AbstractDataset` implementation.
+If you are a contributor and would like to submit a new dataset, you must extend the {py:class}`~kedro.io.AbstractDataset` interface or {py:class}`~kedro.io.AbstractVersionedDataset` interface if you plan to support versioning. It requires subclasses to implement the `load` and `save` methods while providing wrappers that enrich the corresponding methods with uniform error handling. It also requires subclasses to override `_describe`, which is used in logging the internal information about the instances of your custom `AbstractDataset` implementation.
 
 
 ## Scenario
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ Consult the [Pillow documentation](https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/insta
 
 At the minimum, a valid Kedro dataset needs to subclass the base {py:class}`~kedro.io.AbstractDataset` and provide an implementation for the following abstract methods:
 
-* `_load`
-* `_save`
+* `load`
+* `save`
 * `_describe`
 
 `AbstractDataset` is generically typed with an input data type for saving data, and an output data type for loading data.
@@ -70,15 +70,15 @@ class ImageDataset(AbstractDataset[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]):
         """
         self._filepath = filepath
 
-    def _load(self) -> np.ndarray:
+    def load(self) -> np.ndarray:
         """Loads data from the image file.
 
         Returns:
             Data from the image file as a numpy array.
         """
         ...
 
-    def _save(self, data: np.ndarray) -> None:
+    def save(self, data: np.ndarray) -> None:
         """Saves image data to the specified filepath"""
         ...
 
@@ -96,11 +96,11 @@ src/kedro_pokemon/datasets
 └── image_dataset.py
 ```
 
-## Implement the `_load` method with `fsspec`
+## Implement the `load` method with `fsspec`
 
 Many of the built-in Kedro datasets rely on [fsspec](https://filesystem-spec.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) as a consistent interface to different data sources, as described earlier in the section about the [Data Catalog](../data/data_catalog.md#dataset-filepath). In this example, it's particularly convenient to use `fsspec` in conjunction with `Pillow` to read image data, since it allows the dataset to work flexibly with different image locations and formats.
 
-Here is the implementation of the `_load` method using `fsspec` and `Pillow` to read the data of a single image into a `numpy` array:
+Here is the implementation of the `load` method using `fsspec` and `Pillow` to read the data of a single image into a `numpy` array:
 
 <details>
 <summary><b>Click to expand</b></summary>
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ class ImageDataset(AbstractDataset[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]):
         self._filepath = PurePosixPath(path)
         self._fs = fsspec.filesystem(self._protocol)
 
-    def _load(self) -> np.ndarray:
+    def load(self) -> np.ndarray:
         """Loads data from the image file.
 
         Returns:
@@ -168,14 +168,14 @@ In [2]: from PIL import Image
 In [3]: Image.fromarray(image).show()
 ```
 
-## Implement the `_save` method with `fsspec`
+## Implement the `save` method with `fsspec`
 
 Similarly, we can implement the `_save` method as follows:
 
 
 ```python
 class ImageDataset(AbstractDataset[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]):
-    def _save(self, data: np.ndarray) -> None:
+    def save(self, data: np.ndarray) -> None:
         """Saves image data to the specified filepath."""
         # using get_filepath_str ensures that the protocol and path are appended correctly for different filesystems
         save_path = get_filepath_str(self._filepath, self._protocol)
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ class ImageDataset(AbstractDataset[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]):
         self._filepath = PurePosixPath(path)
         self._fs = fsspec.filesystem(self._protocol)
 
-    def _load(self) -> np.ndarray:
+    def load(self) -> np.ndarray:
         """Loads data from the image file.
 
         Returns:
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ class ImageDataset(AbstractDataset[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]):
             image = Image.open(f).convert("RGBA")
             return np.asarray(image)
 
-    def _save(self, data: np.ndarray) -> None:
+    def save(self, data: np.ndarray) -> None:
         """Saves image data to the specified filepath."""
         save_path = get_filepath_str(self._filepath, self._protocol)
         with self._fs.open(save_path, mode="wb") as f:
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ To add versioning support to the new dataset we need to extend the
  {py:class}`~kedro.io.AbstractVersionedDataset` to:
 
 * Accept a `version` keyword argument as part of the constructor
-* Adapt the `_save` and `_load` method to use the versioned data path obtained from `_get_save_path` and `_get_load_path` respectively
+* Adapt the `load` and `save` method to use the versioned data path obtained from `_get_load_path` and `_get_save_path` respectively
 
 The following amends the full implementation of our basic `ImageDataset`. It now loads and saves data to and from a versioned subfolder (`data/01_raw/pokemon-images-and-types/images/images/pikachu.png/<version>/pikachu.png` with `version` being a datetime-formatted string `YYYY-MM-DDThh.mm.ss.sssZ` by default):
 
@@ -359,7 +359,7 @@ class ImageDataset(AbstractVersionedDataset[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]):
             glob_function=self._fs.glob,
         )
 
-    def _load(self) -> np.ndarray:
+    def load(self) -> np.ndarray:
         """Loads data from the image file.
 
         Returns:
@@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ class ImageDataset(AbstractVersionedDataset[np.ndarray, np.ndarray]):
             image = Image.open(f).convert("RGBA")
             return np.asarray(image)
 
-    def _save(self, data: np.ndarray) -> None:
+    def save(self, data: np.ndarray) -> None:
         """Saves image data to the specified filepath."""
         save_path = get_filepath_str(self._get_save_path(), self._protocol)
         with self._fs.open(save_path, mode="wb") as f:
@@ -435,7 +435,7 @@ The difference between the original `ImageDataset` and the versioned `ImageDatas
 +            glob_function=self._fs.glob,
 +        )
 +
-     def _load(self) -> np.ndarray:
+     def load(self) -> np.ndarray:
          """Loads data from the image file.
 
          Returns:
@@ -447,7 +447,7 @@ The difference between the original `ImageDataset` and the versioned `ImageDatas
              image = Image.open(f).convert("RGBA")
              return np.asarray(image)
 
-     def _save(self, data: np.ndarray) -> None:
+     def save(self, data: np.ndarray) -> None:
          """Saves image data to the specified filepath."""
 -        save_path = get_filepath_str(self._filepath, self._protocol)
 +        save_path = get_filepath_str(self._get_save_path(), self._protocol)

kedro/io/core.py

@@ -93,10 +93,10 @@ class AbstractDataset(abc.ABC, Generic[_DI, _DO]):
         >>>         self._param1 = param1
         >>>         self._param2 = param2
         >>>
-        >>>     def _load(self) -> pd.DataFrame:
+        >>>     def load(self) -> pd.DataFrame:
         >>>         return pd.read_csv(self._filepath)
         >>>
-        >>>     def _save(self, df: pd.DataFrame) -> None:
+        >>>     def save(self, df: pd.DataFrame) -> None:
         >>>         df.to_csv(str(self._filepath))
         >>>
         >>>     def _exists(self) -> bool:
@@ -555,11 +555,11 @@ class AbstractVersionedDataset(AbstractDataset[_DI, _DO], abc.ABC):
         >>>         self._param1 = param1
         >>>         self._param2 = param2
         >>>
-        >>>     def _load(self) -> pd.DataFrame:
+        >>>     def load(self) -> pd.DataFrame:
         >>>         load_path = self._get_load_path()
         >>>         return pd.read_csv(load_path)
         >>>
-        >>>     def _save(self, df: pd.DataFrame) -> None:
+        >>>     def save(self, df: pd.DataFrame) -> None:
         >>>         save_path = self._get_save_path()
         >>>         df.to_csv(str(save_path))
         >>>