Allow users to directly set feature output column names and save during serialization #2142
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for single output features, do we want set_feature_names and rename to both work?
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Not sure - are you suggesting that we just allow set_feature_names to work for multi-output features and renaming feature columns for single output should be done through rename as you can be done currently?
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As I think about it I think I like the idea of having set_feature_names operate only on multi-output features - seems more consistent with the method name, and would reduce the scope of the change. We could add a check in the method to raise an error if number_output_features == 1.
@rwedge What do you think about that approach?
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@thehomebrewnerd I like it. It makes things simpler if only features with number_output_features > 1 can use this method
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@rwedge Sounds good. I'll make this change and add the additional test case you recommended.
@rwedge I added a test that checks the name of a feature created by stacking on a |
Co-authored-by: Roy Wedge <roy.wedge@alteryx.com>
…2136) * serialization and deserialization improvements * add pr number * Improve feature deserialization to use common primitive instances (#2127) * update feature deserialization * update release notes * lint fix * fix comment * fix for list inputs and test cleanup * remove files * remove file * use tmp_path * Allow users to directly set feature output column names and save during serialization (#2142) * add set_feature_names method * initial serialization updates * update release notes * fix tests * code cleanup - only store names when set * only use on multi-output features * fix test * lint fix * remove unused functions * add more test cases * update serialization test * Update featuretools/feature_base/feature_base.py Co-authored-by: Roy Wedge <roy.wedge@alteryx.com> Co-authored-by: Roy Wedge <roy.wedge@alteryx.com> * Refactor feature serialization to avoid storing duplicate primitive information (#2144) * initial refactor of serialization * update release notes * lint and remove breakpoint * new approach without hash * refactor and update tests * remove comment * update s3 file * update feature base args * lint fix * misc cleanup * remove extra str casting * fix spelling error * remove instance cache * update save and load docstring examples * lint fix * more docstring cleanup * update release notes * tweak serialization * update json Co-authored-by: Roy Wedge <roy.wedge@alteryx.com>
Allow users to directly set feature output column names and save during serialization
Adds a
set_feature_namesmethod toFeatureBaseto directly allow for setting of feature column names to override the default name. Also updates serialization to save and restore these names.