Squashed commit of the following:

commit 77ea757
Author: BryanFauble <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Jul 16 09:44:35 2025 -0700

    Pre-commit change

commit 4aa79e4
Author: BryanFauble <[email protected]>
Date:   Wed Jul 16 09:35:06 2025 -0700

    Add async for column tests

commit 660b103
Author: BryanFauble <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Jul 14 22:46:09 2025 +0000

    More column deprecation notices

commit be04138
Author: BryanFauble <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Jul 14 22:31:29 2025 +0000

    Correction to Column on the mkdocs page

commit b3761bc
Author: BryanFauble <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Jul 14 22:16:01 2025 +0000

    Remove cache call

commit 3a9b38b
Author: BryanFauble <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Jul 14 22:14:24 2025 +0000

    Deprecate several column related methods from the Synapse class, and Column class. Moving them to API related functions that can be called

commit bb3b73e
Author: BryanFauble <[email protected]>
Date:   Mon Jul 14 19:32:54 2025 +0000

    Add create_table_snapshot function and update snapshot methods in Table model

    - Implemented create_table_snapshot in table_services.py for creating table snapshots via the Synapse REST API.
    - Updated the Table model to use create_table_snapshot instead of the deprecated _create_table_snapshot method.
    - Added unit tests for snapshot creation in both asynchronous and synchronous test files.

commit 6fdebef
Author: BryanFauble <[email protected]>
Date:   Sat Jul 12 00:13:03 2025 +0000

    Unit test patching

commit af06fd1
Author: BryanFauble <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Jul 11 23:33:00 2025 +0000

    Remove note

commit b41974f
Author: BryanFauble <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Jul 11 23:29:51 2025 +0000

    Enhance Activity Protocol with Parent ID Support and Retrieval Methods

    - Updated ActivitySynchronousProtocol to accept EntityView and Dataset as valid parent types.
    - Added support for string IDs as parent entities in store, delete, and disassociate methods.
    - Introduced a new method `get` to retrieve activities by activity ID or parent entity ID, with version support.
    - Enhanced integration tests for Activity to cover new retrieval methods and string parent ID functionality.
    - Improved test cases to ensure proper handling of references and activity properties during storage and retrieval.

Author: BryanFauble

docs/reference/experimental/async/table.md

@@ -37,7 +37,10 @@ at your own risk.
 [](){ #column-reference-async }
 ::: synapseclient.models.Column
     options:
+        inherited_members: true
         members:
+        - get_async
+        - list_async
 
 [](){ #schema-storage-strategy-reference-async }
 ::: synapseclient.models.SchemaStorageStrategy

docs/reference/experimental/sync/table.md

@@ -48,7 +48,10 @@ at your own risk.
 [](){ #column-reference-sync }
 ::: synapseclient.models.Column
     options:
+        inherited_members: true
         members:
+        - get
+        - list
 
 [](){ #schema-storage-strategy-reference-sync }
 ::: synapseclient.models.SchemaStorageStrategy

synapseclient/api/__init__.py

@@ -69,8 +69,11 @@
     ViewEntityType,
     ViewTypeMask,
     create_table_snapshot,
+    get_column,
     get_columns,
     get_default_columns,
+    list_columns,
+    list_columns_sync,
     post_columns,
 )
 from .team_services import (
@@ -151,6 +154,9 @@
     # columns
     "get_columns",
     "post_columns",
+    "get_column",
+    "list_columns",
+    "list_columns_sync",
     "get_default_columns",
     "ViewTypeMask",
     "ViewEntityType",

synapseclient/api/table_services.py

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 import json
 from enum import Enum
-from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Dict, List, Optional, Union
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, AsyncGenerator, Dict, Generator, List, Optional, Union
 
 from synapseclient.core.utils import delete_none_keys, id_of
 
@@ -123,6 +123,97 @@ async def get_columns(
     return columns
 
 
+async def get_column(
+    column_id: str,
+    *,
+    synapse_client: Optional["Synapse"] = None,
+) -> Dict[str, Union[str, int]]:
+    """Get a single column by ID.
+
+    Arguments:
+        column_id: The ID of the column to retrieve.
+        synapse_client: If not passed in and caching was not disabled by
+                `Synapse.allow_client_caching(False)` this will use the last created
+                instance from the Synapse class constructor.
+
+    Returns:
+        The column matching <https://rest-docs.synapse.org/rest/org/sagebionetworks/repo/model/table/ColumnModel.html>
+    """
+    from synapseclient import Synapse
+
+    return await Synapse.get_client(synapse_client=synapse_client).rest_get_async(
+        f"/column/{column_id}",
+    )
+
+
+async def list_columns(
+    prefix: Optional[str] = None,
+    limit: int = 100,
+    offset: int = 0,
+    *,
+    synapse_client: Optional["Synapse"] = None,
+) -> AsyncGenerator["Column", None]:
+    """List columns with optional prefix filtering.
+
+    Arguments:
+        prefix: Optional prefix to filter columns by name.
+        limit: Number of columns to retrieve per request to Synapse (pagination parameter).
+            The function will continue retrieving results until all matching columns are returned.
+        offset: The index of the first column to return (pagination parameter).
+        synapse_client: If not passed in and caching was not disabled by
+                `Synapse.allow_client_caching(False)` this will use the last created
+                instance from the Synapse class constructor.
+
+    Yields: Column instances.
+    """
+    from synapseclient.api.api_client import rest_get_paginated_async
+    from synapseclient.models import Column
+
+    if prefix is None:
+        uri = "/column"
+    else:
+        uri = f"/column?prefix={prefix}"
+
+    async for result in rest_get_paginated_async(
+        uri, limit=limit, offset=offset, synapse_client=synapse_client
+    ):
+        yield Column().fill_from_dict(synapse_column=result)
+
+
+def list_columns_sync(
+    prefix: Optional[str] = None,
+    limit: int = 100,
+    offset: int = 0,
+    *,
+    synapse_client: Optional["Synapse"] = None,
+) -> Generator["Column", None, None]:
+    """List columns with optional prefix filtering (synchronous version).
+
+    Arguments:
+        prefix: Optional prefix to filter columns by name.
+        limit: Number of columns to retrieve per request to Synapse (pagination parameter).
+            The function will continue retrieving results until all matching columns are returned.
+        offset: The index of the first column to return (pagination parameter).
+        synapse_client: If not passed in and caching was not disabled by
+                `Synapse.allow_client_caching(False)` this will use the last created
+                instance from the Synapse class constructor.
+
+    Yields: Column instances.
+    """
+    from synapseclient import Synapse
+    from synapseclient.models import Column
+
+    client = Synapse.get_client(synapse_client=synapse_client)
+
+    if prefix is None:
+        uri = "/column"
+    else:
+        uri = f"/column?prefix={prefix}"
+
+    for result in client._GET_paginated(uri, limit=limit, offset=offset):
+        yield Column().fill_from_dict(synapse_column=result)
+
+
 async def post_columns(
     columns: List["Column"], *, synapse_client: Optional["Synapse"] = None
 ) -> List["Column"]: