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Ahmad Intisar 3c4d1da98f Feature/table parser column roles (#13710)
### What problem does this PR solve?

The table file parser (CSV/Excel) currently treats all columns
identically — every column is both vectorized (embedded in chunk text)
and stored as filterable metadata. There's no way for users to control
which columns should be searchable by semantic meaning versus which
should only be filterable attributes.

For example, when ingesting a news articles CSV with columns like title,
content, country, category, source, etc., the embedding includes
metadata fields like country: Brazil and source: Reuters in the chunk
text, which dilutes the semantic quality of the embedding without adding
retrieval value.

The RDBMS connector (MySQL/PostgreSQL) already supports content_columns
/ metadata_columns, but this capability was missing for file-based table
ingestion.

This PR adds column-level control (vectorize / metadata / both) for the
table file parser, following RAGFlow's existing patterns.

Backward compatible: Datasets without table_column_roles or with
table_column_mode: auto behave exactly as before (all columns = both).

### Type of change

- [x] New Feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
2026-05-11 10:06:04 +08:00
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(1). Deploy RAGFlow services and images

https://ragflow.io/docs/build_docker_image

(2). Configure the required environment for testing

Install Python dependencies (including test dependencies):

uv sync --python 3.12 --only-group test --no-default-groups --frozen

Activate the environment:

source .venv/bin/activate

Install SDK:

uv pip install sdk/python 

Modify the .env file: Add the following code:

COMPOSE_PROFILES=${COMPOSE_PROFILES},tei-cpu
TEI_MODEL=BAAI/bge-small-en-v1.5
RAGFLOW_IMAGE=infiniflow/ragflow:v0.25.2 #Replace with the image you are using

Start the containerwait two minutes:

docker compose -f docker/docker-compose.yml up -d


(3). Test Elasticsearch

a) Run sdk tests against Elasticsearch:

export HTTP_API_TEST_LEVEL=p2
export HOST_ADDRESS=http://127.0.0.1:9380  # Ensure that this port is the API port mapped to your localhost
pytest -s --tb=short --level=${HTTP_API_TEST_LEVEL} test/testcases/test_sdk_api 

b) Run http api tests against Elasticsearch:

pytest -s --tb=short --level=${HTTP_API_TEST_LEVEL} test/testcases/test_http_api 


(4). Test Infinity

Modify the .env file:

DOC_ENGINE=${DOC_ENGINE:-infinity}

Start the container:

docker compose -f docker/docker-compose.yml down -v 
docker compose -f docker/docker-compose.yml up -d

a) Run sdk tests against Infinity:

DOC_ENGINE=infinity pytest -s --tb=short --level=${HTTP_API_TEST_LEVEL} test/testcases/test_sdk_api 

b) Run http api tests against Infinity:

DOC_ENGINE=infinity pytest -s --tb=short --level=${HTTP_API_TEST_LEVEL} test/testcases/test_http_api