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Writers for Haystack.

Module haystack_experimental.components.writers.chat_message_writer

ChatMessageWriter

Writes chat messages to an underlying ChatMessageStore.

Usage example:

from haystack.dataclasses import ChatMessage
from haystack_experimental.components.writers import ChatMessageWriter
from haystack_experimental.chat_message_stores.in_memory import InMemoryChatMessageStore

messages = [
    ChatMessage.from_assistant("Hello, how can I help you?"),
    ChatMessage.from_user("I have a question about Python."),
]
message_store = InMemoryChatMessageStore()
writer = ChatMessageWriter(message_store)
writer.run(messages)

ChatMessageWriter.__init__

def __init__(message_store: ChatMessageStore)

Create a ChatMessageWriter component.

Arguments:

  • message_store: The ChatMessageStore where the chat messages are to be written.

ChatMessageWriter.to_dict

def to_dict() -> Dict[str, Any]

Serializes the component to a dictionary.

Returns:

Dictionary with serialized data.

ChatMessageWriter.from_dict

@classmethod
def from_dict(cls, data: Dict[str, Any]) -> "ChatMessageWriter"

Deserializes the component from a dictionary.

Arguments:

  • data: The dictionary to deserialize from.

Raises:

  • DeserializationError: If the message store is not properly specified in the serialization data or its type cannot be imported.

Returns:

The deserialized component.

ChatMessageWriter.run

@component.output_types(messages_written=int)
def run(messages: List[ChatMessage])

Run the ChatMessageWriter on the given input data.

Arguments:

  • messages: A list of chat messages to write to the store.

Raises:

  • ValueError: If the specified message store is not found.

Returns:

  • messages_written: Number of messages written to the ChatMessageStore.