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community[minor]: Add support for metadata indexing policy in Cassandra vector store (#22548)

This PR adds a constructor `metadata_indexing` parameter to the
Cassandra vector store to allow optional fine-tuning of which fields of
the metadata are to be indexed.

This is a feature supported by the underlying CassIO library. Indexing
mode of "all", "none" or deny- and allow-list based choices are
available.

The rationale is, in some cases it's advisable to programmatically
exclude some portions of the metadata from the index if one knows in
advance they won't ever be used at search-time. this keeps the index
more lightweight and performant and avoids limitations on the length of
_indexed_ strings.

I added a integration test of the feature. I also added the possibility
of running the integration test with Cassandra on an arbitrary IP
address (e.g. Dockerized), via
`CASSANDRA_CONTACT_POINTS=10.1.1.5,10.1.1.6 poetry run pytest [...]` or
similar.

While I was at it, I added a line to the `.gitignore` since the mypy
_test_ cache was not ignored yet.

My X (Twitter) handle: @rsprrs.
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Stefano Lottini committed
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Parent: c3d4126
Committed by GitHub <[email protected]> on 6/5/2024, 3:23:26 PM