"""Abstract interface for document loader implementations.""" from __future__ import annotations from abc import ABC, abstractmethod from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Iterator, List, Optional from langchain_core.documents import Document from langchain_community.document_loaders.blob_loaders import Blob if TYPE_CHECKING: from langchain.text_splitter import TextSplitter class BaseLoader(ABC): """Interface for Document Loader. Implementations should implement the lazy-loading method using generators to avoid loading all Documents into memory at once. The `load` method will remain as is for backwards compatibility, but its implementation should be just `list(self.lazy_load())`. """ # Sub-classes should implement this method # as return list(self.lazy_load()). # This method returns a List which is materialized in memory. @abstractmethod def load(self) -> List[Document]: """Load data into Document objects.""" def load_and_split( self, text_splitter: Optional[TextSplitter] = None ) -> List[Document]: """Load Documents and split into chunks. Chunks are returned as Documents. Args: text_splitter: TextSplitter instance to use for splitting documents. Defaults to RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter. Returns: List of Documents. """ from langchain.text_splitter import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter if text_splitter is None: _text_splitter: TextSplitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter() else: _text_splitter = text_splitter docs = self.load() return _text_splitter.split_documents(docs) # Attention: This method will be upgraded into an abstractmethod once it's # implemented in all the existing subclasses. def lazy_load( self, ) -> Iterator[Document]: """A lazy loader for Documents.""" raise NotImplementedError( f"{self.__class__.__name__} does not implement lazy_load()" ) class BaseBlobParser(ABC): """Abstract interface for blob parsers. A blob parser provides a way to parse raw data stored in a blob into one or more documents. The parser can be composed with blob loaders, making it easy to reuse a parser independent of how the blob was originally loaded. """ @abstractmethod def lazy_parse(self, blob: Blob) -> Iterator[Document]: """Lazy parsing interface. Subclasses are required to implement this method. Args: blob: Blob instance Returns: Generator of documents """ def parse(self, blob: Blob) -> List[Document]: """Eagerly parse the blob into a document or documents. This is a convenience method for interactive development environment. Production applications should favor the lazy_parse method instead. Subclasses should generally not over-ride this parse method. Args: blob: Blob instance Returns: List of documents """ return list(self.lazy_parse(blob))