[Reliability] The broad except Exception silently catches all errors, including critical issues like AttributeError from API changes or KeyError from malformed data structures. This makes debugging difficult when the code fails.

except AttributeError as e:
    # ServerAPI doesn't have expected attributes (_session or _api_url)
    logger.debug(f"Skipping system {system_id}: {e}")
    continue
except Exception as e:
    # Unexpected errors should be logged for investigation
    logger.warning(f"Unexpected error extracting API key from system: {e}")
    continue

This distinguishes expected structural variations from genuine errors that need attention.

The broad `except Exception` silently catches all errors, including critical issues like `AttributeError` from API changes or `KeyError` from malformed data structures. This makes debugging difficult when the code fails.

```python
except AttributeError as e:
    # ServerAPI doesn't have expected attributes (_session or _api_url)
    logger.debug(f"Skipping system {system_id}: {e}")
    continue
except Exception as e:
    # Unexpected errors should be logged for investigation
    logger.warning(f"Unexpected error extracting API key from system: {e}")
    continue
```

This distinguishes expected structural variations from genuine errors that need attention.

File: chromadb/api/shared_system_client.py
Line: 133

Please do not do inline imports. Why is this needed?

This is because of circular dependencies. The path is essentially chromadb.api -> schema -> embedding function -> qwen ef -> shared system client -> chromadb.api

we would need to either refactor where the embedding function protocol is defined which is a breaking change, or move the ServerAPI.

An alternative would be to refactor the embedding function protocol to allow build_from_config to take a client, but that's a much larger refactor, and would also be a breaking change for custom efs

I'm not able to think of another way to get the client to auto propagate keys to the ef. we could also have an optional parameter to the ef that takes in a client, but it removes the ease of use, and its weird to pass in a client to the ef.

changed it to lazy import similar to how schema and types.py import

[Security] Logging a prefix of the API key poses a security risk. Sensitive credentials, even partial ones, should not be written to logs as they could be exposed. A more secure approach is to log that multiple keys were found without revealing any part of the key itself.

Logging a prefix of the API key poses a security risk. Sensitive credentials, even partial ones, should not be written to logs as they could be exposed. A more secure approach is to log that multiple keys were found without revealing any part of the key itself.

File: chromadb/api/shared_system_client.py
Line: 175

Why is every ef defining this when it could be shared?

thought it would be clearer since its for import purposes and it was a 2 liner. updated so splade ef reads from qwen ef's impl. thought about moving to its own file, but didnt think this was worth introducing an ef helper file

I don't think it makes sense for this to import from another embedding function. I think this should just be in a seperate file.