def client(self) -> Client:
        """
        Synchronous client for interacting with the OCI Data Science Model Deployment endpoint.

        Returns:
            Client: The synchronous client instance.

        """
        if self._client is None:
            self._client = Client(
                endpoint=self.endpoint,
                auth=self.auth,
                retries=self.max_retries,
                timeout=self.timeout,
            )
        return self._client

        Synchronous client for interacting with the OCI Data Science Model Deployment endpoint.

        Returns:
            Client: The synchronous client instance.

        
llama-index-integrations/llms/llama-index-llms-oci-data-science/llama_index/llms/oci_data_science/base.py