What is the "Download as API package" used for?

[Gaige]

How can I make use of the "Download as API package" in API designer? Could I create a prediction service by myself with it? I can see a lot of model information inside this package.

Thanks in advance.

Gaige

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Operating system used: Win10

[JordanB]

Hi @Gaige,

The downloaded API package version is used to directly upload the version to a deployer (as shown below). You can also use it to share with team members and troubleshoot.

Kind Regards,

Jordan

[Gaige]

Hi, JordanB, thanks. Further more, is it possible run this API package outside of dataiku environment?

Gaige

[Turribeach]

Technically yes but why would you reinvent the wheel? At the end of the day the package it's Python code so you could write a service that can run it as the API node does. But your time will be best used developing machine learning models rather than building infrastructure you already have available. 

[Gaige]

Hi, Turribeach, thanks for reply. The dataiku I using is hosted on my company cloud environment, the authorization process is very complicated and time consuming. Another reason is that my algorithm is based on customized code, I couldn't download the trained model as python or MLFlow code.

Best Regards

Wang Gaige

[JordanB]

Hi @Gaige,

What happens when you try to export your saved model as python or mlflow? Have you tried PMML?  

Thanks,

Jordan

[Gaige]

It shows not available, the ok button is gray out.

Best Regards

Gaige