[Dist] backward compatible with dgl.dataloading.DistDataLoader (#7782)

docs/source/api/python/dgl.distributed.rst

@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ Distributed Sampling
 Distributed DataLoader
 ``````````````````````
 
+.. autoclass:: NodeCollator
+
+.. autoclass:: EdgeCollator
+
 .. autoclass:: DistDataLoader
 
 .. autoclass:: DistNodeDataLoader

python/dgl/dataloading/dataloader.py

@@ -1474,6 +1474,48 @@ class GraphDataLoader(torch.utils.data.DataLoader):
             raise DGLError("set_epoch is only available when use_ddp is True.")
 
 
+class NodeCollator:
+    """Deprecated. Please use :class:`~dgl.distributed.NodeCollator` instead."""
+
+    def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        dgl_warning(
+            "NodeCollator is defined in dgl.distributed This class is for "
+            "backward compatibility and will be removed soon. Please update "
+            "your code to use `dgl.distributed.NodeCollator`."
+        )
+        from ..distributed import NodeCollator as NewNodeCollator
+
+        return NewNodeCollator(*args, **kwargs)
+
+
+class EdgeCollator:
+    """Deprecated. Please use :class:`~dgl.distributed.EdgeCollator` instead."""
+
+    def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        dgl_warning(
+            "EdgeCollator is defined in dgl.distributed This class is for "
+            "backward compatibility and will be removed soon. Please update "
+            "your code to use `dgl.distributed.EdgeCollator`."
+        )
+        from ..distributed import EdgeCollator as NewEdgeCollator
+
+        return NewEdgeCollator(*args, **kwargs)
+
+
+class DistDataLoader:
+    """Deprecated. Please use :class:`~dgl.distributed.DistDataLoader` instead."""
+
+    def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
+        dgl_warning(
+            "DistDataLoader is defined in dgl.distributed This class is for "
+            "backward compatibility and will be removed soon. Please update "
+            "your code to use `dgl.distributed.DistDataLoader`."
+        )
+        from ..distributed import DistDataLoader as NewDistDataLoader
+
+        return NewDistDataLoader(*args, **kwargs)
+
+
 class DistNodeDataLoader:
     """Deprecated. Please use :class:`~dgl.distributed.DistNodeDataLoader`
     instead.

python/dgl/distributed/__init__.py

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ from .dist_dataloader import (
     DistDataLoader,
     DistEdgeDataLoader,
     DistNodeDataLoader,
+    EdgeCollator,
+    NodeCollator,
 )
 from .dist_graph import DistGraph, DistGraphServer, edge_split, node_split
 from .dist_tensor import DistTensor

python/dgl/distributed/dist_dataloader.py

@@ -9,7 +9,13 @@ from ..base import EID, NID
 from ..convert import heterograph
 from .dist_context import get_sampler_pool
 
-__all__ = ["DistDataLoader", "DistNodeDataLoader", "DistEdgeDataLoader"]
+__all__ = [
+    "NodeCollator",
+    "EdgeCollator",
+    "DistDataLoader",
+    "DistNodeDataLoader",
+    "DistEdgeDataLoader",
+]
 
 DATALOADER_ID = 0
 

tests/python/pytorch/dataloading/test_dataloader.py

@@ -821,6 +821,31 @@ def test_dataloader_worker_init_fn():
         pass
 
 
+def test_distributed_dataloaders():
+    # Test distributed dataloaders could be successfully imported.
+    try:
+        from dgl.dataloading import (
+            DistDataLoader,
+            DistEdgeDataLoader,
+            DistNodeDataLoader,
+            EdgeCollator,
+            NodeCollator,
+        )
+    except ImportError:
+        pytest.fail("Distributed DataLoader from dataloading import failed")
+
+    try:
+        from dgl.distributed import (
+            DistDataLoader,
+            DistEdgeDataLoader,
+            DistNodeDataLoader,
+            EdgeCollator,
+            NodeCollator,
+        )
+    except ImportError:
+        pytest.fail("Distributed DataLoader from dataloading import failed")
+
+
 if __name__ == "__main__":
     # test_node_dataloader(F.int32, 'neighbor', None)
     test_edge_dataloader_excludes(