v 2.1.0rc1
==========
Switch default encode_maps_as_lists_in_tables to "DATAAPIMAPS" (no observable changes w.r.t. previous releases)
Bugfix: fix paykload encoding for empty maps/DataAPIMaps
User-defined types in tables:
    - type management: `CreateTypeDefinition`, `ListTypeDescriptor`, `AlterTypeOperation`, `AlterTypeAddFields` and `AlterTypeRenameFields` classes
    - type management: Database's `create_type`, `list_type_names`, `list_types`, `alter_type` and `drop_type` methods
    - full support for UDTs in table ddl: `Database.create_table()`/`Database.list_tables()`/`table.definition()`
    - UDT support in tables: introduced `serializer_by_class` and `deserializer_by_udt` serdes options
    - UDT support in tables: introduced `DataAPIDictUDT` default dict-wrapper type
Tables, all index creation methods support a `definition` parameter, alternatively to the "column[+options]" call pattern
Tables, support for "text indexes":
    - classes `TableTextIndexDefinition` and `TableTextIndexOptions` (e.g. for `list_indexes()` method)
    - tables got a `.create_text_index()` method
Tables, introduced method `list_indexes()`
Cursors (all types): introduced the "pagination API":
    - `.fetch_next_page()` method
    - `initial_page_state` cursor constructor parameter / builder interface method
Admin, renamed 'region_name' ==> `name` in `AstraDBAdminDatabaseRegionInfo` and `AstraDBAvailableRegionInfo` (the old name kept as a deprecated alias)
Introduced the notion of 'passthrough columns' to cover all of the cql-only partially/completely unsupported columns in the read/schema-read path
Fix: methods `drop_[collection|table]` of `[Async]Database`, and their Collection/Table sugar methods, now consistently return None.
AstraDBAdmin: introduced `[async_]find_available_regions()` method (and related response objects)
embedding/reranking models' "API support status":
    - db admins' `.find_[embedding|reranking]_providers()` methods have a `filter_model_status` parameter, with values in `astrapy.constants.ModelStatus`;
    - returned `*Model` objects have an appropriate "API Support" attribute.
allow sending `"$vector": None` when inserting into collections
support for modelSupport in findRerankingProviders
CollectionDefinition fluent interface: set_lexical and set_rerank accept also just 'enabled'
find_and_rerank scores' type enlarged to: `float|int|null`
maintenance: improve integration test coverage for:
    - collection-columns in tables: indexing, collection-specific DML commands ($push, $pullAll and so on)
    - collections, lexical/BM25-related DDL operations (various analyzer configurations for)
    - collections, lexical/BM25-related DML operations (filtering, sorting based on $lexical)
    - tables, lexical/BM25-related DML
    - tables, logical filtering (i.e. $and, $or between clauses)
    - multiple vectorize columns in a Table
maintenance: subsumed the specific testing opt-in env. var 'ASTRAPY_TEST_MAP2TUPLES=y' into the catch-all 'cutting-edge main' `ASTRAPY_TEST_LATEST_MAIN=y`
maintenance: simplified SerdesOptions management in unit testing; some rationalization/refactoring of pre- and post-processing logic for tables in unit tests
maintenance: switched to uv (from poetry)
maintenance: promoted findAndRerank testing to the 'regular' IT (adjusted readme and env templates accordingly)
maintenance: pin h11 to 0.16.0 or higher (after a vulnerability report)
maintenance: switch to latest HCD for non-Astra CI github action
maintenance: introduce CQL-driven testing for low/no-support table columns. `LOCAL_DATA_API_APPLICATION_TOKEN` local test auth not supported anymore.

v 2.0.1
=======
bugfix: receiving `'$vector': null` caused response parsing to break

v 2.0.0
=======
Collections admit `DataAPIMap` in writing and support `DataAPIDate` as well (the latter coming with the same timezone caveats as `datetime.date`)
(plus all of the v2 pre-releases below)


v 2.0.0rc2
==========
Cursors (class hierarchy revised to accommodate `find_and_rerank`, plus other changes):
    - renamed the 'FindCursorState' enum to `CursorState`
    - renamed the abstract ur-class 'FindCursor' => `AbstractCursor`
    - `clone` method does not strip the mapping anymore, rather retains it
    - removed the `alive` sugar property (use `cursors.state != CursorState.CLOSED`)
Support for reranker header-based authentication:
    - new authentication classes `RerankingHeadersProvider`, `RerankingAPIKeyHeaderProvider`
    - introduced `reranking_api_key` parameter for APIOptions, `{get|create}_{table|collection}` database methods, collection/table `with_options` and `to_[a]sync` methods
Support for "findRerankingProviders" API command in Database Admin classes:
    - classes class hierarchy: `RerankingProviderParameter`, `RerankingProviderModel`, `RerankingProviderToken`, `RerankingProviderAuthentication`, `RerankingProvider`, `FindRerankingProvidersResult` to express the response
    - database admin `find_reranking_providers`/`async_find_reranking_providers` methods implemented.
Support for findAndRerank in collections:
    - new classes `CollectionLexicalOptions`, `CollectionRerankOptions`, `RerankServiceOptions` for create_collection
    - new `lexical` and `rerank` entries in CollectionDefinition (+builder interface management)
    - `find_and_rerank` method for collections
    - cursor classes `[Async]CollectionFindAndRerankCursor` added
    - findAndRerank cursors return the new `RerankedResult` construct by default (modulo custom mappings)
Maps for tables expressed as list of pairs (association lists):
    - support for automatic handling of DataAPIMaps (+possibly dicts) in the proper table payload portions
    - introduced serdes option `encode_maps_as_lists_in_tables` (default to "NEVER") to control this
Exceptions, major rework of `[Table|Collection]InsertManyException`, `CollectionUpdateManyException` and `CollectionDeleteManyException` ("bulk operations")
    - All astrapy exceptions derive directly from `Exception` (and not 'ValueError` anymore)
    - better string representation of `DataAPIDetailedErrorDescriptor`
    - `DataAPIDetailedErrorDescriptor` removed.
    - 'CumulativeOperationException` removed.
    - The four `CollectionInsertManyException`, `CollectionUpdateManyException`, `CollectionDeleteManyException`, `TableInsertManyException` classes now inherit directly from `DataAPIResponseException`.
    - New semantics and structure for `[Collection|Table]InsertManyException`: they have members `inserted_ids`(/`inserted_id_tuples`) and an `exceptions` list for the root cause(s)
    - New semantics and structure for `Collection[Update|Delete]ManyException`: they have members `partial_result` and a single-exception `cause`. They are now raised consistently for API exceptions occurring during the respective methods.
Arbitrary field names and dot-escaping:
    - offering utilities `astrapy.utils.document_paths.escape_field_names/unescape_field_path`
    - `distinct` methods can accept a list of (literal) str|int as well as a(n escaped) identifier string
Improved StrEnum matching for e.g. better coercion of TableIndexType (and future enum with e.g. dashes in values)
Spawner methods for databases/admins standardized; they don't issue DevOps API calls.
    - removed `normalize_region_for_id` utility method, not used anymore.
    - `AstraDBAdmin.get_[async]_database()`:
        - does not run DevOps API calls anymore (for missing keyspace/region);
        - defers defaults to the [Async]Database class consistently;
        - removed `database_admin_timeout_ms`, `request_timeout_ms`, `timeout_ms` parameters;
        - `region` now required if `id` passed instead of endpoint.
    - `AstraDBDatabaseAdmin.get[_async]_database()`:
        - removed `database_admin_timeout_ms`, `request_timeout_ms`, `timeout_ms` parameters.
    - `AstraDBDatabaseAdmin.get_database_admin()` standardized and simplified:
        - does not run DevOps API calls anymore (for missing keyspace/region);
        - removed `database_admin_timeout_ms`, `request_timeout_ms`, `timeout_ms` parameters;
        - `region` now required if `id` passed instead of endpoint.
Support for Astra DB "custom domain" endpoints for database
    - in which case: `.id`, `.region`, `.get_database_admin()`, `.info()` and `.name()` aren't available.
Table indexes:
    - Support for the `indexType` field to describe table indexes (for compatibility, said field is not mandatory).
    - 'column' argument for create[Vector]Index table metods is now positional (after index name)
Collections write path now obeys the binary-encoding API Option (which in turn defaults to True. Formerly bin-encoding was always turned off.)
DataAPITime: support for "hh:mm" no-seconds format.
DataAPIDuration: improved parse performance by caching regexpes.
DataAPIDuration: support for "P4W"-type strings and for zeroes such as "P", "-PR".
Replaced the ValueErrors not directly coming from function calls/constructors with more appropriate exceptions.
Collection and Table `insert_many` methods employ returnDocumentResponses under the hood.
maintenance: switch to DSE6.9 for local non-Astra testing.


v 2.0.0rc1
==========
Support for TIMEUUID and COUNTER columns:
    - enlarged ColumnType enum (used by the API to describe non-creatable columns)
    - readable through find/find_one operations (now returned by the API when reading)
shortened string representation of table column descriptors for improved readability
added 'filter' to the `TableAPISupportDescriptor` structure (now returned by the Data API)
added optional `api_support` member to all column descriptor (as the Data API returns it for various columns)
restore support for Python 3.8, 3.9
maintenance: full restructuring of tests and CI (tables+collections on same footing+other)
maintenance: adopt `blockbuster` in async tests to detect (and bust) any blocking call


v 2.0.0-preview
===============
Introduction of full Tables support.
Major revision of overall interface including Collection support.

Introduced new astrapy-specific data types for full expressivity (see `serdes_options` below):
    - `DataAPIVector` data type
    - `DataAPIDate`, `DataAPITime`, `DataAPITimestamp`, `DataAPIDuration`
    - `DataAPISet`, `DataAPIMap`

Typing support for Collections (optional):
    - `get_collection` and `create_collection` get a `document_type` parameter to go with the type hint `Collection[MyType]`
    - if unspecified fall back to `DefaultCollection = Collection[DefaultDocumentType]` (where `DefaultDocumentType = dict[str, Any]`)
    - cursors from `find` also allow strict typechecking

Introduced a consistent API Options system:
    - an APIOptions object inherited at each "spawn" operation, with overrides
    - environment-dependent defaults if nothing supplied
    - `serdes_options` to control data types accepted for writes and to select data types for reads
    - `serdes_options`: Collections default to using custom types for lossless and full-range expression of database content
        - `serdes_options.binary_encode_vectors`, to control usage of binary-encoding for writing vectors.
        - e.g. instead of 'datetime.datetime', instances of `DataAPITimestamp` are returned
        - Exception: numbers are treated by default as ints and floats. To have them all Decimal, set serdes_option.use_decimals_in_collections to True.
        - Use the options' serdes_option to opt out and revert to non-custom data types
        - For datetimes, fine control over naive-datetime tolerance and timezone is introduced. Usage of naive datetime is now OPT-IN.
    - Support for arbitrary 'database' and 'admin' headers throughout the object chain
    - Fully reworked timeout options through all abstractions:
        - `TimeoutOptions` has six classes of timeouts, applying differently to various methods according to the kind of method. Timeouts can be overridden per-method-call
        - removal of the 'max_time_ms` parameter ==> still a quick migration path is to replace it with `timeout_ms` throughout
        - timeout of 0 means that timeout is disabled

Reworked and enriched `FindCursor` interface:
    - Cursors are typed, similarly to Tables and Collections. The `find` method has an optional `document_type` parameter for typechecking.
    - Cursor classes renamed to `[Async]CollectionCursor`
    - Base class for all (find) cursors renamed to `FindCursor`
    - introduced `map` and `to_list` methods
    - `cursor.state` now has values in `CursorState` enum (take `cursor.state.value` for a string)
    - 'cursor.address' is removed from the API
    - `cursor.rewind()` returns None, mutates cursor in-place
    - removed 'cursor.distinct()': use the  corresponding collection(/table) method.
    - removed cursor '.keyspace' property
    - removed 'retrieved' for cursors: use `consumed`
    - added many cursor management methods (see docstrings for details)

Other changes to existing API:
    - `Database.create_collection`: signature change (now accepts a single "collection definition")
        - added parameter `definition` to method (a CollectionDefinition, plain dictionary or None)
        - (support for `source_model` vector index setting within the `definition` parameter)
        - removed 'dimension', 'metric', 'source_model', 'service', 'indexing', 'default_id_type' (all of them subsumed in `definition`)
        - removed parameters 'additional_options' and 'timeout_ms' as part of the broader timeout rework
    - renamed 'CollectionOptions' class to `CollectionDefinition` (return type of `Collection.options()`):
        - renamed its 'options' attribute into `definition` (although the API payload calls it "options")
        - removed its 'raw_options' attribute (redundant w.r.t `CollectionDescriptor.raw_descriptor`)
        - `CollectionDefinition`: implemented fluent interface to build collection definition objects
    - renamed `CollectionVectorServiceOptions` class to `VectorServiceOptions`
    - renamed `astrapy.constants.SortDocuments` to `SortMode`
    - renamed (collection-specific) "Result" classes like this:
        - 'DeleteResult' ==> `CollectionDeleteResult`
        - 'InsertOneResult' ==> `CollectionInsertOneResult`
        - 'InsertManyResult' ==> `CollectionInsertManyResult`
        - 'UpdateResult' ==> `CollectionUpdateResult`
    - signature change from `-> {"ok": 1}` to `-> None` for some admin and schema methods:
        - `AstraDBAdmin`: `drop_database` (+ async)
        - `AstraDBDatabaseAdmin`, `DataAPIDatabaseAdmin`: `create_keyspace`, `drop_keyspace`, `drop` (+ async)
        - `Database`, `AsyncDatabase`: `drop_collection`, `drop_table`
        - `Collection`, `AsyncCollection`: `drop`
    - renamed parameter 'collection_name' to `collection_or_table_name` and allow for `keyspace=None` in database `command()` method
    - [Async]Database `drop_collection` method now accepts a keyspace parameter.
    - `AsyncDatabase` methods `get_collection` and `get_table` are not async functions anymore (remove the await when calling them)
    - the following "info" methods are made async (= awaitable): `AsyncDatabase.info`, `AsyncDatabase.name`, `AsyncCollection.info`, `AsyncTable.info`, `AsyncDatabase.list_collections`, `AsyncDatabase.list_tables`
    - Database info structure: changed class name and reworked attributes of `AstraDBAdminDatabaseInfo` (formerly 'AdminDatabaseInfo') and `AstraDBDatabaseInfo` (formerly 'DatabaseInfo')
    - `[Async]Collection` and `[Async]Database`: `info` method now accepts the relevant timeout parameters
    - remove 'check_exists' from `[Async]Database.create_collection` method (the client does no checks now)
    - removed AstraDBDatabaseAdmin's `from_api_endpoint` static method (reason: unused)
    - remove 'database' parameter to the `to_sync()` and `to_async()` conversion methods for collections
    - `[Async]Database.drop_collection` method accepts only the string name of the target to drop (no collection objects anymore)
    - removed the 'CommandCursor'/'AsyncCommandCursor' classes:
        - `AstraDBAdmin`: `list_databases`, `async_list_databases` methods return regular lists
        - `[Async]Database`: `list_collections`, `list_tables` methods return regular lists
    - `[Async]Database`: added a `.region` property

Exceptions hierarchy reworked:
    - removed 'CursorIsStartedException': now `CursorException` raised for all state-related illegal calls in cursors
    - removed 'CollectionNotFoundException', replaced by a ValueError in the few cases it's needed
    - removed `CollectionAlreadyExistsException` class (not used anymore without `check_exists`)
    - introduced `InvalidEnvironmentException` for operations invalid on some Data API environments.
    - renamed 'InsertManyException' ==> `CollectionInsertManyException`
    - renamed 'DeleteManyException' ==> `CollectionDeleteManyException`
    - renamed 'UpdateManyException' ==> `CollectionUpdateManyException`
    - renamed 'DevOpsAPIFaultyResponseException' ==> `UnexpectedDevOpsAPIResponseException`
    - renamed 'DataAPIFaultyResponseException' ==> `UnexpectedDataAPIResponseException`
    - (improved string representation of DataAPIResponseException cases with multiple error descriptors)

Removal of deprecated modules, objects, patterns and parameters:
    - 'core' (i.e. pre-1.0) library
    - 'collection.bulk_write' and the associated result and exception classes
    - 'vector=', 'vectorize=' and 'vectors=' parameters from collection methods
    - 'set_caller' method of `DataAPIClient`, `AstraDBAdmin`, `DataAPIDatabaseAdmin`, `AstraDBDatabaseAdmin`, `[Async]Database`, `[Async]Collection`
    - 'caller_name' and 'caller_version' parameters. A single list-of-pairs `callers` is now expected
    - 'id' and 'region' to DataAPIClient's 'get_database' (and async version). Use `api_endpoint` which is now the one positional parameter.
    - Accordingly, the syntax `client[api_endpoint]` also does not accept a database ID anymore.
    - 'region' parameter of `AstraDBDatabaseAdmin.get[_async]_database` (was ignored already in the method)
    - 'namespace' parameter of several methods of: DataAPIClient, admin objects, Database and Collection (use `keyspace`)
    - 'namespace' property of CollectionInfo, DatabaseInfo, CollectionNotFoundException, CollectionAlreadyExistsException (use `keyspace`)
    - 'namespace' property of `Database` and `Collection` (switch to `keyspace`)
    - 'update_db_namespace' parameter for keyspace admin methods (use `update_db_keyspace`)
    - 'use_namespace' for `Databases` (switch to `use_keyspace`)
    - 'delete_all' method of `Collection` and `AsyncCollection` (use `delete_many({})`)

API payloads are encoded with full Unicode (not encoded in ASCII anymore) for HTTP requests

- Revision of all "spawning and copying" methods for abstractions. Parameters added/removed/renamed (switch to the corresponding parameters inside the APIOptions instead of the removed keyword parameters):
    - All the client/admin/database/table/collection classes have an `api_options` parameter in their `with_options/to_[a]sync` method
    - `DataAPIClient`
        - `_copy()`, `with_options()`: removed 'callers'
        - `get_..._database...()`: removed 'api_path', 'api_version'
        - `get_admin()`: removed 'dev_ops_url', 'dev_ops_api_version'
    - `AstraDBAdmin`
        - `(_copy)`: removed 'environment', 'dev_ops_url', 'dev_ops_api_version', 'callers'
        - `(with_options)`: removed 'callers'
        - `(create..._database)`: added `token`, `spawn_api_options`
        - `(get..._database)`: removed 'api_path', 'api_version', 'database_request_timeout_ms', 'database_timeout_ms'; renamed 'database_api_options' => `spawn_api_options`
        - `(get_database_admin)`: added `token`, `spawn_api_options`
    - `AstraDBDatabaseAdmin`
        - `_copy()`: removed 'api_endpoint', 'environment', 'dev_ops_url', 'dev_ops_api_version', 'api_path', 'api_version', 'callers'
        - `with_options()`: removed 'api_endpoint', 'callers'
        - `get..._database()`: removed 'api_path', 'api_version', 'database_request_timeout_ms', 'database_timeout_ms'; renamed 'database_api_options' => `spawn_api_options`
    - `DataAPIDatabaseAdmin`
        - `_copy()`: removed 'api_endpoint', 'environment', 'api_path', 'api_version', 'callers'
        - `with_options()`: removed 'api_endpoint', 'callers'
        - `get..._database()`: removed 'api_path', 'api_version', 'database_request_timeout_ms', 'database_timeout_ms'; renamed 'database_api_options' => `spawn_api_options`
    - `[Async]Database`
        - `_copy()`: removed 'api_endpoint', 'callers', 'environment', 'api_path', 'api_version'
        - `with_options()`: removed 'callers'; added `token`
        - `to_[a]sync()`: removed 'api_endpoint', 'callers', 'environment', 'api_path', 'api_version', 
        - `get_collection()`: removed 'collection_request_timeout_ms', 'collection_timeout_ms'; renamed 'collection_api_options' => `spawn_api_options`
        - `get_table()`: removed 'table_request_timeout_ms', 'table_timeout_ms'; renamed 'table_api_options' => `spawn_api_options`
        - `create_collection()`: removed 'collection_request_timeout_ms', 'collection_timeout_ms'; renamed 'collection_api_options' => `spawn_api_options`
        - `create_table()`: removed 'table_request_timeout_ms', 'table_timeout_ms'; renamed 'table_api_options' => `spawn_api_options`
        - `get_database_admin()`: removed 'dev_ops_url', 'dev_ops_api_version'
    - `[Async]Collection`
        - `_copy()`: removed 'request_timeout_ms', 'collection_timeout_ms', 'callers'
        - `with_options`: removed 'request_timeout_ms', 'collection_timeout_ms', 'name', 'callers'
        - `to_[a]sync()`: removed 'request_timeout_ms', 'collection_timeout_ms', 'keyspace', 'name', 'callers'
    - `[Async]Table`
        - `_copy()`: removed 'database', 'name', 'keyspace', 'request_timeout_ms', 'table_timeout_ms', 'callers'
        - `with_options`: removed 'name', 'request_timeout_ms', 'table_timeout_ms', 'callers'
        - `to_[a]sync()`: removed 'database', 'name', 'keyspace', 'request_timeout_ms', 'table_timeout_ms', 'callers'

Internal restructuring/maintenance things:
    - (not user-facing) classes in the hierarchy other than `DataAPIClient` have breaking changes in their constructor (now options-first and keyword-arg-only)
    - Token and Embedding API key coercion into `*Provider` now happens at the Options' init layer
    - `[Async]Collection.find_one` method uses the actual findOne API command
    - rename main branch from 'master' ==> `main`
    - major restructuring of the codebase in directories (some internal-only imports changed; reduced the scope of `test_imports`)
    - removal of unused imports from toplevel `__init__.py` (ids, constants, cursors)
    - simplified timeout management classes and representations


v. 1.5.2
========
Bugfix: `Database.get_collection` uses callers inheritance (same for async)


v. 1.5.1
========
Switching to endpoint as the only/primary way of specifying databases:
    - AstraDBClient tolerates (deprecated, removal in 2.0) id[/region] in get_database
    - (internal-use constructors and utilities only accept API Endpoint)
    - AstraDBAdmin is the only place where id[/region] will remain an allowed path in 2.0
    - all tests adapted to reflect this simplification
Admins: resilience against DevOps responses omitting 'keyspace'/'keyspaces'
AstraDBAdmin: added filters and automatic pagination to [async_]list_databases
Consistent handling of deletedCount=-1 from the API (always returned as-is)
Cursors: alignment and rework
    - states are an enum; state names reworked for clarity (better cursor `__repr__`)
    - _copy and _to_sync methods always return a clean pristine cursor
    - "retrieved" property deprecated (removal 2.0). Use `consumed`.
    - "collection" property deprecated (removal 2.0). Use `data_source`.
Deprecation of all `set_caller` (=> to be set at constructor-time) (removal in 2.0)
Callers and user-agent string:
    - remove RAGStack automatic detection
    - Deprecate caller_name/caller_version parameters in favour of "callers" pair list
    - (minor) breaking change: passing only one of caller_name/caller_version to _copy/with_options will override the whole one-item callers pair list
Repo housekeeping
    - using ruff for imports and formatting (instead of isort+black) by @cbornet
    - add ruff rules UP(pyupgrade) by @cbornet
    - remove `cassio` unused dependency


v. 1.5.0
========
Deprecation of "namespace-" terminology, replaced by "keyspace-" (removal in 2.0)
    - deprecation of all *namespace* method names
    - deprecation of the `namespace=` named argument to all methods
    - deprecation of the `update_db_namespace` parameter to create_*space
Deprecation of collection bulk_write method (removal in 2.0)
APICommander logs warnings received from the Data API
Full removal of "core library" from the current API:
    - DevOps API accessed through APICommander everywhere
    - Admin objects use APICommander consistently
    - [Async]Database and [Async]Collection directly use APICommander
    - Cursor library uses APICommander directly
    - Core library imports triggers a submodule-wide deprecation warning
    - (simplification of the vector/vectorize deprecator utility)
Widened exception hierarchy with:
    - DevOpsAPIHttpException
    - DevOpsAPITimeoutException
    - DevOpsAPIFaultyResponseException
Rearrangement into separate modules for:
    - constants, strings, magic numbers and settings
    - request low-level tools
    - payload/response transformations
    - (sometimes with temporary duplication to avoid depending on 'core')
Testing:
    - testing on HCD targets Data API v 1.0.16
    - added tests for APICommander
    - improved tests for admin classes
Logging of API requests made more uniform and easier to read
Replaced collections.abc.Iterator => typing.Iterator for python3.8 compatibility


v. 1.4.2
========
Method 'update_one' of [Async]Collection: now invokes the corresponding API command.
Better URL-parsing error messages for the API endpoint (with guidance on expected format)
Improved __repr__ for: token/auth-related items, Database/Client classes, response+info objects
DataAPIErrorDescriptor can parse 'extend error' in the responses
Introduced DataAPIHttpException (subclass of both httpx.HTTPStatusError and DataAPIException)
testing on HCD:
    - DockerCompose tweaked to invoke `docker compose`
    - HCD 1.0.0 and Data API 1.0.15 as test targets
relaxed dependency on "uuid6" to most recent releases
core:
    - prefetched find iterators: fix second-thread hangups in some cases (by @cbornet)
    - added 'options' parameter to [Async]AstraDBCollection.update_one


v. 1.4.1
========
FindEmbeddingProvidersResult and descendant dataclasses:
    - add handling of optional 'hint' and 'displayName' fields for parameters
    - knowedge of optional-as-null vs optional-as-possibly-absent ancillary fields
Replace bson dependency with pymongo (#297, by @caseyclements)


v. 1.4.0
========
DatabaseAdmin classes retain a reference to the Async/Database instance that spawned it, if any
    - introduced a spawner_database parameter to database admin constructors
    - database admin can retroactively set the db's working namespace upon creation of same
    - Idiom `database = client.get_database(...); database.get_database_admin().create_namespace("the_namespace", update_db_namespace=True)`
Database (and AsyncDatabase) classes admit null namespace:
    - default to "default_keyspace" only for Astra, otherwise null
    - as long as null, most operations are unavailable and error out
    - a `use_namespace` method to (mutably) set the working namespace on a database instance
AstraDBDatabaseAdmin class is fully region-aware:
    - can be instantiated with an endpoint (also `id` parameter aliased to `api_endpoint`)
    - requires a region to be specified with an ID, unless auto-guess can be done
VectorizeOps: support for find_embedding_providers Database method
Support for multiple-header embedding api keys:
    - `EmbeddingHeadersProvider` classes for `embedding_api_key` parameter
    - AWS header provider in addition to the regular one-header one
    - adapt CI to cover this setup
Testing:
    - restructure CI to fully support HCD alongside Astra DB
    - add details for testing new embedding providers


v. 1.3.1
========
Fixed bug in parsing endpoint domain names containing hyphens (#287), by @bradfordcp
Added isort for source code formatting
Updated abstractions diagram in README for non-Astra environments


v. 1.3.0
========
Integration testing covers Astra and nonAstra smoothly:
    - idiomatic library
    - vectorize_idiomatic
    - nonAstra admin, i.e. namespace crud
Add the TokenProvider abstract class => and StaticTokenProvider, UsernamePasswordTokenProvider
Introduce CHANGES file.
Add __eq__ and _copy methods to APICommander class
Allow delete_many({}) with empty filter
Implement include_sort_vector option to Collection.find and get_sort_vector to cursors
Add Content-Type header to all API requests
Added HCD and CASSANDRA Environment values (besides the other non-Astra DSE and OTHER)
Clearer string repr of cursors ('retrieved' => 'yielded so far')
Deprecation of collection delete_all method in favour of delete_many(filter={})
    Introduction of a custom deprecation decorator for async method removal tests
Deprecation of vector,vectors and vectorize params from collections and Operations
Remove several long-deprecated methods from **core API** (i.e. internal changes):
    AstraDBCollection.delete          => delete_one
    AstraDBCollection.upsert          => upsert_one
    AsyncAstraDBCollection.upsert     => upsert_one
    AstraDB.truncate_collection       => AstraDBCollection.clear
    AsyncAstraDB.truncate_collection  => AsyncAstraDBCollectionclear
Add support for null tokens in the core library


v. 1.2.1
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Raise default chunk size for insert_many to 50
Improvements in docstrings, testing, support for latest responses from vectorize.


v. 1.2.0
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Non-Astra environment awareness:
    astrapy.constants.Environment enum for the "environment" parameter to client, etc
    flexibility and adaptive defaults for data api url
    environment knowledge trickles throughout all classes (client, admins, databases)
    DataAPIDatabaseAdmin class (i.e. for namespace CRUD)
(internal) astrapy.api_commander.APICommander
(internal) astrapy.api_options.{BaseAPIOptions, CollectionAPIOptions}
$vectorize support:
    "service options" for creating/retrieving collections, covering $vectorize needs
    embedding_api_key parameter to collection (for "header" usage)
collection-level timeout parameter (overridable in single method calls)
expand "projection" type to include slice projections
client.get_database can accept an API endpoint directly
insert_many and bulk_write default to ordered=False


v. 1.1.0
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Adds estimated_document_count method to Collection class.


v. 1.0.0
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(Introduction of the "idiomatic API", relegating "core" to become non-user-facing.)

Split classes, modules, tests to keep the "idiomatic" layer well separate and not touch the "astrapy" layer
DDL and some DML methods to m1
Passing secondary keyspace to action workflows
Fix bug in copy and to_[a]sync when set_caller is later used
Full cross-namespace management in DDL
More DDL methods and signature adjustments for Database
Sl overridable copy methods
Cursor/AsyncCursor, find and distinct
Remove all 'unsupported' clutter; implement find_one (a/sync)
DML for idiomatic + necessary changes around
Bulk_write method
More management methods
Sl collateral commands
Commandcursor (+async), used in list_collections
Sl collection options + cap-aware count_documents
Fix #245: Delete CHANGES.md
Collection.drop + database/collection info and related methods/properties (metadata)
Adapt to latest choices in API semantics
More syntax changes as discussed + all docstrings
Full support for dotted key names in distinct
Refactor to feature 'idiomatic' first, with full back-compat with 'astrapy'
Add sorting in hashing for distinct and factor it away
Exception management with a hierarchy of Exception classes
Full timeout support
Sl api refinements
ObjectIDs and UUIDs handled throughout (+ tests)
Admin interfaces and classes
Docstrings for all the admin/client parts + minor improvements to docstrings around
Readme overhaul
Exporting logger for back-compatibility
Sl adjustments
Custom payload serialization for httpx to block NaNs
Improved docstrings (minor stuff)
Methods repr/str to all objects for graceful display
Full test suite on client/admin classes
Abstract DatabaseAdmin, admin standard utility conversion/methods + tests thereof
Collection options is a dataclass and not a dict anymore
Pdoc annotations to control auto-docs
Logging, create_database signature
Added async support for admin, as alternate methods on original classes
Use MultiCallTimeoutManager in create_collection methods
V1.0.0 ("pm convergenge m1") gets to master


(prior to 1.0.0)
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What is now dubbed the "core API" and is not supposed to be used directly at all.
