Is Azure Storage Emulator supported?

[riverar]

I'm getting bounced around many different Azure libraries for Tables and growing increasingly frustrated. Does this library support connections to the local emulator? Do you have an example that demonstrates TableClient instantiation with a local emulator connection string?

[joheredi]

Thanks for reaching out, I'll be happy to look into this and help getting you unblocked. I'll investigate and get back to you on Monday.

Meanwhile if you are getting any errors, would you mind sharing them please?

[joheredi]

I was able to find the root cause that currently prevents the SDK to support Storage Emulator #13159. I'm currently investigating a way to work around this problem. I will provide an update soon when I have a proposal. This is my top priority at the moment.

[riverar]

Thanks @joheredi.

For context, my path thus far has been:

• Spin up an Azure Functions project utilizing Tables
• Fail due to Azurite not supporting Tables => Used older deprecated emulator
• Fail due to Azure Function table bindings not supporting upsert operations => moved to recommended azure-storage-node
• Blocked due to lack of Promise support in azure-storage-node => moved to recommended @azure/data-tables
• Blocked due to lack of local Emulator support => Give up on emulator and use Azure-hosted resources ($$$)

[joheredi]

Thanks for reporting this issue and your help reviewing and validating the fix. The fix has been merged and a new beta version released. Please install the latest version of @azure/data-tables and let me know if you see any issues.

npm install @azure/data-tables@latest

Sample to create a client to test with the emulator/azurite:

const tableService = TableClient.fromConnectionString('UseDevelopmentStorage=true', 'testTable');