# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022-present deepset GmbH # # SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 import itertools from enum import Enum from math import inf from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Union from haystack import component, default_from_dict, default_to_dict, logging from haystack.core.component.types import Variadic from haystack.dataclasses.answer import ExtractedAnswer, ExtractedTableAnswer, GeneratedAnswer AnswerType = Union[GeneratedAnswer, ExtractedTableAnswer, ExtractedAnswer] logger = logging.getLogger(__name__) class JoinMode(Enum): """ Enum for AnswerJoiner join modes. """ CONCATENATE = "concatenate" def __str__(self): return self.value @staticmethod def from_str(string: str) -> "JoinMode": """ Convert a string to a JoinMode enum. """ enum_map = {e.value: e for e in JoinMode} mode = enum_map.get(string) if mode is None: msg = f"Unknown join mode '{string}'. Supported modes in AnswerJoiner are: {list(enum_map.keys())}" raise ValueError(msg) return mode @component class AnswerJoiner: """ Merges multiple lists of `Answer` objects into a single list. Use this component to combine answers from different Generators into a single list. Currently, the component supports only one join mode: `CONCATENATE`. This mode concatenates multiple lists of answers into a single list. ### Usage example In this example, AnswerJoiner merges answers from two different Generators: ```python from haystack.components.builders import AnswerBuilder from haystack.components.joiners import AnswerJoiner from haystack.core.pipeline import Pipeline from haystack.components.generators.chat import OpenAIChatGenerator from haystack.dataclasses import ChatMessage query = "What's Natural Language Processing?" messages = [ChatMessage.from_system("You are a helpful, respectful and honest assistant. Be super concise."), ChatMessage.from_user(query)] pipe = Pipeline() pipe.add_component("gpt-4o", OpenAIChatGenerator(model="gpt-4o")) pipe.add_component("llama", OpenAIChatGenerator(model="gpt-3.5-turbo")) pipe.add_component("aba", AnswerBuilder()) pipe.add_component("abb", AnswerBuilder()) pipe.add_component("joiner", AnswerJoiner()) pipe.connect("gpt-4o.replies", "aba") pipe.connect("llama.replies", "abb") pipe.connect("aba.answers", "joiner") pipe.connect("abb.answers", "joiner") results = pipe.run(data={"gpt-4o": {"messages": messages}, "llama": {"messages": messages}, "aba": {"query": query}, "abb": {"query": query}}) ``` """ def __init__( self, join_mode: Union[str, JoinMode] = JoinMode.CONCATENATE, top_k: Optional[int] = None, sort_by_score: bool = False, ): """ Creates an AnswerJoiner component. :param join_mode: Specifies the join mode to use. Available modes: - `concatenate`: Concatenates multiple lists of Answers into a single list. :param top_k: The maximum number of Answers to return. :param sort_by_score: If `True`, sorts the documents by score in descending order. If a document has no score, it is handled as if its score is -infinity. """ if isinstance(join_mode, str): join_mode = JoinMode.from_str(join_mode) join_mode_functions: Dict[JoinMode, Callable[[List[List[AnswerType]]], List[AnswerType]]] = { JoinMode.CONCATENATE: self._concatenate } self.join_mode_function: Callable[[List[List[AnswerType]]], List[AnswerType]] = join_mode_functions[join_mode] self.join_mode = join_mode self.top_k = top_k self.sort_by_score = sort_by_score @component.output_types(answers=List[AnswerType]) def run(self, answers: Variadic[List[AnswerType]], top_k: Optional[int] = None): """ Joins multiple lists of Answers into a single list depending on the `join_mode` parameter. :param answers: Nested list of Answers to be merged. :param top_k: The maximum number of Answers to return. Overrides the instance's `top_k` if provided. :returns: A dictionary with the following keys: - `answers`: Merged list of Answers """ answers_list = list(answers) join_function = self.join_mode_function output_answers: List[AnswerType] = join_function(answers_list) if self.sort_by_score: output_answers = sorted( output_answers, key=lambda answer: answer.score if hasattr(answer, "score") else -inf, reverse=True ) top_k = top_k or self.top_k if top_k: output_answers = output_answers[:top_k] return {"answers": output_answers} def _concatenate(self, answer_lists: List[List[AnswerType]]) -> List[AnswerType]: """ Concatenate multiple lists of Answers, flattening them into a single list and sorting by score. :param answer_lists: List of lists of Answers to be flattened. """ return list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(answer_lists)) def to_dict(self) -> Dict[str, Any]: """ Serializes the component to a dictionary. :returns: Dictionary with serialized data. """ return default_to_dict(self, join_mode=str(self.join_mode), top_k=self.top_k, sort_by_score=self.sort_by_score) @classmethod def from_dict(cls, data: Dict[str, Any]) -> "AnswerJoiner": """ Deserializes the component from a dictionary. :param data: The dictionary to deserialize from. :returns: The deserialized component. """ return default_from_dict(cls, data)