
Most common position in a pipeline	After at least two other components to join their strings
Mandatory run variables	“strings”: Multiple strings from connected components.
Output variables	“strings”: A list of merged strings
API reference	Joiners
GitHub link	https://github.com/deepset-ai/haystack/blob/main/haystack/components/joiners/string_joiner.py

Overview

The StringJoiner component collects multiple string outputs from various pipeline components and combines them into a single list. This is useful when you need to merge several strings from different parts of a pipeline into a unified output.

Usage

from haystack.components.joiners import StringJoiner
from haystack.components.builders import PromptBuilder
from haystack.core.pipeline import Pipeline
from haystack.components.generators.chat import OpenAIChatGenerator
from haystack.dataclasses import ChatMessage

string_1 = "What's Natural Language Processing?"
string_2 = "What is life?"

pipeline = Pipeline()
pipeline.add_component("prompt_builder_1", PromptBuilder("Builder 1: {{query}}"))
pipeline.add_component("prompt_builder_2", PromptBuilder("Builder 2: {{query}}"))
pipeline.add_component("string_joiner", StringJoiner())

pipeline.connect("prompt_builder_1.prompt", "string_joiner.strings")
pipeline.connect("prompt_builder_2.prompt", "string_joiner.strings")

print(pipeline.run(data={"prompt_builder_1": {"query": string_1}, "prompt_builder_2": {"query": string_2}}))

>> {"string_joiner": {"strings": ["Builder 1: What's Natural Language Processing?", "Builder 2: What is life?"]}}