hub.attach_message

Adds an attached message to the module definition.

hub.attach_message(
    key, message
)

See ModuleSpec.get_attached_message() for an introduction to attached messages and the API for module consumers.

To define a new type of attached message:

  • Select a reasonably descriptive name as a unique key. For now, keys must be valid Python identifiers that start with a letter. Punctuation besides underscores ('_') is reserved for future use in hierarchical names.

  • Define a Protocol Buffer message type to store the value for the key. (Use generic containers like google.protobuf.Value only if running the protocol compiler is infeasible for your build process.)

  • For module consumers, consider providing a small library that encapsulates the specific call to get_attached_message() behind a higher-level interface and supplies the right message type for parsing.

Attached messages work best for few messages of moderate size. Avoid a large number of messages; use repetition within messages instead. Avoid large messages (megabytes); consider module assets instead.

For modules with multiple graph versions, each graph version stores separately what was attached from within the call to module_fn that defines its graph.

THIS FUNCTION IS DEPRECATED.

key A string with the unique key to retrieve this message. Must start with a letter and contain only letters, digits and underscores. If used repeatedly within one invocation of module_fn, then only the message from the final call will be returned by get_attached_message().
message A protocol message object, to be stored in serialized form.

ValueError if key is not a string of the form of a Python identifier.