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This notebook goes over how to use the CouchbaseChatMessageHistory class to store the chat message history in a Couchbase cluster

Set Up Couchbase Cluster​

To run this demo, you need a Couchbase Cluster.

You can work with both Couchbase Capella and your self-managed Couchbase Server.

Install Dependencies​

CouchbaseChatMessageHistory lives inside the langchain-couchbase package.

%pip install --upgrade --quiet langchain-couchbase
Note: you may need to restart the kernel to use updated packages.

Create Couchbase Connection Object​

We create a connection to the Couchbase cluster initially and then pass the cluster object to the Vector Store.

Here, we are connecting using the username and password. You can also connect using any other supported way to your cluster.

For more information on connecting to the Couchbase cluster, please check the Python SDK documentation.

COUCHBASE_CONNECTION_STRING = (
    "couchbase://localhost"  # or "couchbases://localhost" if using TLS
)
DB_USERNAME = "Administrator"
DB_PASSWORD = "Password"
from datetime import timedelta

from couchbase.auth import PasswordAuthenticator
from couchbase.cluster import Cluster
from couchbase.options import ClusterOptions

auth = PasswordAuthenticator(DB_USERNAME, DB_PASSWORD)
options = ClusterOptions(auth)
cluster = Cluster(COUCHBASE_CONNECTION_STRING, options)

# Wait until the cluster is ready for use.
cluster.wait_until_ready(timedelta(seconds=5))

We will now set the bucket, scope, and collection names in the Couchbase cluster that we want to use for storing the message history.

Note that the bucket, scope, and collection need to exist before using them to store the message history.

BUCKET_NAME = "langchain-testing"
SCOPE_NAME = "_default"
COLLECTION_NAME = "conversational_cache"

Usage​

In order to store the messages, you need the following:

  • Couchbase Cluster object: Valid connection to the Couchbase cluster
  • bucket_name: Bucket in cluster to store the chat message history
  • scope_name: Scope in bucket to store the message history
  • collection_name: Collection in scope to store the message history
  • session_id: Unique identifier for the session

Optionally you can configure the following:

  • session_id_key: Field in the chat message documents to store the session_id
  • message_key: Field in the chat message documents to store the message content
  • create_index: Used to specify if the index needs to be created on the collection. By default, an index is created on the message_key and the session_id_key of the documents
  • ttl: Used to specify a time in timedelta to live for the documents after which they will get deleted automatically from the storage.
from langchain_couchbase.chat_message_histories import CouchbaseChatMessageHistory

message_history = CouchbaseChatMessageHistory(
    cluster=cluster,
    bucket_name=BUCKET_NAME,
    scope_name=SCOPE_NAME,
    collection_name=COLLECTION_NAME,
    session_id="test-session",
)

message_history.add_user_message("hi!")

message_history.add_ai_message("how are you doing?")
message_history.messages
[HumanMessage(content='hi!'), AIMessage(content='how are you doing?')]

Specifying a Time to Live (TTL) for the Chat Messages​

The stored messages can be deleted after a specified time automatically by specifying a ttl parameter along with the initialization of the chat message history store.

from langchain_couchbase.chat_message_histories import CouchbaseChatMessageHistory

message_history = CouchbaseChatMessageHistory(
    cluster=cluster,
    bucket_name=BUCKET_NAME,
    scope_name=SCOPE_NAME,
    collection_name=COLLECTION_NAME,
    session_id="test-session",
    ttl=timedelta(hours=24),
)

Chaining​

The chat message history class can be used with LCEL Runnables

import getpass
import os

from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate, MessagesPlaceholder
from langchain_core.runnables.history import RunnableWithMessageHistory
from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI

os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = getpass.getpass()
prompt = ChatPromptTemplate.from_messages(
    [
        ("system", "You are a helpful assistant."),
        MessagesPlaceholder(variable_name="history"),
        ("human", "{question}"),
    ]
)

# Create the LCEL runnable
chain = prompt | ChatOpenAI()
chain_with_history = RunnableWithMessageHistory(
    chain,
    lambda session_id: CouchbaseChatMessageHistory(
        cluster=cluster,
        bucket_name=BUCKET_NAME,
        scope_name=SCOPE_NAME,
        collection_name=COLLECTION_NAME,
        session_id=session_id,
    ),
    input_messages_key="question",
    history_messages_key="history",
)
# This is where we configure the session id
config = {"configurable": {"session_id": "testing"}}
chain_with_history.invoke({"question": "Hi! I'm bob"}, config=config)
AIMessage(content='Hello, Bob! How can I assist you today?', additional_kwargs={'refusal': None}, response_metadata={'token_usage': {'completion_tokens': 11, 'prompt_tokens': 22, 'total_tokens': 33}, 'model_name': 'gpt-3.5-turbo-0125', 'system_fingerprint': None, 'finish_reason': 'stop', 'logprobs': None}, id='run-62e54e3d-db70-429d-9ee0-e5e8eb2489a1-0', usage_metadata={'input_tokens': 22, 'output_tokens': 11, 'total_tokens': 33})
chain_with_history.invoke({"question": "Whats my name"}, config=config)
AIMessage(content='Your name is Bob.', additional_kwargs={'refusal': None}, response_metadata={'token_usage': {'completion_tokens': 5, 'prompt_tokens': 44, 'total_tokens': 49}, 'model_name': 'gpt-3.5-turbo-0125', 'system_fingerprint': None, 'finish_reason': 'stop', 'logprobs': None}, id='run-d84a570a-45f3-4931-814a-078761170bca-0', usage_metadata={'input_tokens': 44, 'output_tokens': 5, 'total_tokens': 49})

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