RUST-1582 Would It Be Possible To Expose The Session Creation Functionality From a `Collection<T>` Object?

[LuisOsta]

Currently the only way to create a session is through the client object. But from my investigations it seems that the collection object has the client object stored in its struct.

Would it be possible to either expose session creation functionality or allow the consumer to get the client from the collection object?

The reason for this is that we separate the code based on collections so each domain only has access to the relevant pieces and I'd prefer to not have to pass the whole client object to all areas that need to create sessions or handle transactions.

[LuisOsta]

The ideal usage I'd love would be something like:

collection.start_session(None);

Or

collection.get_client();

[isabelatkinson]

Hey @LuisOsta, thanks for filing this issue! While we would prefer not to add the start_session method directly to the Collection object, we do think it would be a good idea to have a method on Collection that returns its parent client. I've filed RUST-1582 to cover this work. Feel free to make a pull request implementing this if you'd like to; otherwise, we'll pick it up when we have time to do so.

One small thing to note is that we probably want to name the method client (i.e. collection.client()) for consistency with the corresponding method on our ClientSessiontype.

[github-actions]

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[LuisOsta]

Alright sounds good. I'll see if I can make the PR that makes the appropriate changes, thanks for the quick reply!

[LuisOsta]

@kmahar I've opened the PR that allows external consumers to access the underlying client object - #822

[isabelatkinson]

Closing this out as we've just merged #822.