AGENTIC AI IN THE ENTERPRISE: STRATEGY, ARCHITECTURE, AND IMPLEMENTATION – PART 3

This is a continuation of my previous post, which can be found here.

Let us recap the key takaways from our previous post –

Enterprise AI, utilizing the Model Context Protocol (MCP), leverages an open standard that enables AI systems to securely and consistently access enterprise data and tools. MCP replaces brittle “N×M” integrations between models and systems with a standardized client–server pattern: an MCP host (e.g., IDE or chatbot) runs an MCP client that communicates with lightweight MCP servers, which wrap external systems via JSON-RPC. Servers expose three assets—Resources (data), Tools (actions), and Prompts (templates)—behind permissions, access control, and auditability. This design enables real-time context, reduces hallucinations, supports model- and cloud-agnostic interoperability, and accelerates “build once, integrate everywhere” deployment. A typical flow (e.g., retrieving a customer’s latest order) encompasses intent parsing, authorized tool invocation, query translation/execution, and the return of a normalized JSON result to the model for natural-language delivery. Performance introduces modest overhead (RPC hops, JSON (de)serialization, network transit) and scale considerations (request volume, significant results, context-window pressure). Mitigations include in-memory/semantic caching, optimized SQL with indexing, pagination, and filtering, connection pooling, and horizontal scaling with load balancing. In practice, small latency costs are often outweighed by the benefits of higher accuracy, stronger governance, and a decoupled, scalable architecture.

Compared to other approaches, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) offers a uniquely standardized and secure framework for AI-tool integration, shifting from brittle, custom-coded connections to a universal plug-and-play model. It is not a replacement for underlying systems, such as APIs or databases, but instead acts as an intelligent, secure abstraction layer designed explicitly for AI agents.

This approach was the traditional method for AI integration before standards like MCP emerged.

  • Custom API integrations (traditional): Each AI application requires a custom-built connector for every external system it needs to access, leading to an N x M integration problem (the number of connectors grows exponentially with the number of models and systems). This approach is resource-intensive, challenging to maintain, and prone to breaking when underlying APIs change.
  • MCP: The standardized protocol eliminates the N x M problem by creating a universal interface. Tool creators build a single MCP server for their system, and any MCP-compatible AI agent can instantly access it. This process decouples the AI model from the underlying implementation details, drastically reducing integration and maintenance costs.

For more detailed information, please refer to the following link.

RAG is a technique that retrieves static documents to augment an LLM’s knowledge, while MCP focuses on live interactions. They are complementary, not competing. 

  • RAG:
    • Focus: Retrieving and summarizing static, unstructured data, such as documents, manuals, or knowledge bases.
    • Best for: Providing background knowledge and general information, as in a policy lookup tool or customer service bot.
    • Data type: Unstructured, static knowledge.
  • MCP:
    • Focus: Accessing and acting on real-time, structured, and dynamic data from databases, APIs, and business systems.
    • Best for: Agentic use cases involving real-world actions, like pulling live sales reports from a CRM or creating a ticket in a project management tool.
    • Data type: Structured, real-time, and dynamic data.

Before MCP, platforms like OpenAI offered proprietary plugin systems to extend LLM capabilities.

  • LLM plugins:
    • Proprietary: Tied to a specific AI vendor (e.g., OpenAI).
    • Limited: Rely on the vendor’s API function-calling mechanism, which focuses on call formatting but not standardized execution.
    • Centralized: Managed by the AI vendor, creating a risk of vendor lock-in.
  • MCP:
    • Open standard: Based on a public, interoperable protocol (JSON-RPC 2.0), making it model-agnostic and usable across different platforms.
    • Infrastructure layer: Provides a standardized infrastructure for agents to discover and use any compliant tool, regardless of the underlying LLM.
    • Decentralized: Promotes a flexible ecosystem and reduces the risk of vendor lock-in. 

The “agent factory” pattern: Azure focuses on providing managed services for building and orchestrating AI agents, tightly integrated with its enterprise security and governance features. The MCP architecture is a core component of the Azure AI Foundry, serving as a secure, managed “agent factory.” 

  • AI orchestration layer: The Azure AI Agent Service, within Azure AI Foundry, acts as the central host and orchestrator. It provides the control plane for creating, deploying, and managing multiple specialized agents, and it natively supports the MCP standard.
  • AI model layer: Agents in the Foundry can be powered by various models, including those from Azure OpenAI Service, commercial models from partners, or open-source models.
  • MCP server and tool layer: MCP servers are deployed using serverless functions, such as Azure Functions or Azure Logic Apps, to wrap existing enterprise systems. These servers expose tools for interacting with enterprise data sources like SharePoint, Azure AI Search, and Azure Blob Storage.
  • Data and security layer: Data is secured using Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) for authentication and access control, with robust security policies enforced via Azure API Management. Access to data sources, such as databases and storage, is managed securely through private networks and Managed Identity. 

The “composable serverless agent” pattern: AWS emphasizes a modular, composable, and serverless approach, leveraging its extensive portfolio of services to build sophisticated, flexible, and scalable AI solutions. The MCP architecture here aligns with the principle of creating lightweight, event-driven services that AI agents can orchestrate. 

  • The AI orchestration layer, which includes Amazon Bedrock Agents or custom agent frameworks deployed via AWS Fargate or Lambda, acts as the MCP hosts. Bedrock Agents provide built-in orchestration, while custom agents offer greater flexibility and customization options.
  • AI model layer: The models are sourced from Amazon Bedrock, which provides a wide selection of foundation models.
  • MCP server and tool layer: MCP servers are deployed as serverless AWS Lambda functions. AWS offers pre-built MCP servers for many of its services, including the AWS Serverless MCP Server for managing serverless applications and the AWS Lambda Tool MCP Server for invoking existing Lambda functions as tools.
  • Data and security layer: Access is tightly controlled using AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles and policies, with fine-grained permissions for each MCP server. Private data sources like databases (Amazon DynamoDB) and storage (Amazon S3) are accessed securely within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC). 

The “unified workbench” pattern: GCP focuses on providing a unified, open, and data-centric platform for AI development. The MCP architecture on GCP integrates natively with the Vertex AI platform, treating MCP servers as first-class tools that can be dynamically discovered and used within a single workbench. 

  • AI orchestration layer: The Vertex AI Agent Builder serves as the central environment for building and managing conversational AI and other agents. It orchestrates workflows and manages tool invocation for agents.
  • AI model layer: Agents use foundation models available through the Vertex AI Model Garden or the Gemini API.
  • MCP server and tool layer: MCP servers are deployed as containerized microservices on Cloud Run or managed by services like App Engine. These servers contain tools that interact with GCP services, such as BigQueryCloud Storage, and Cloud SQL. GCP offers pre-built MCP server implementations, such as the GCP MCP Toolbox, for integration with its databases.
  • Data and security layer: Vertex AI Vector Search and other data sources are encapsulated within the MCP server tools to provide contextual information. Access to these services is managed by Identity and Access Management (IAM) and secured through virtual private clouds. The MCP server can leverage Vertex AI Context Caching for improved performance.

Note that all the native technology is referred to in each respective cloud. Hence, some of the better technologies can be used in place of the tool mentioned here. This is more of a concept-level comparison rather than industry-wise implementation approaches.


We’ll go ahead and conclude this post here & continue discussing on a further deep dive in the next post.

Till then, Happy Avenging! 🙂

RAG implementation of LLMs by using Python, Haystack & React (Part – 2)

Today, we’ll share the second installment of the RAG implementation. If you are new here, please visit the previous post for full context.

In this post, we’ll be discussing the Haystack framework more. Again, before discussing the main context, I want to present the demo here.

Demo

Let us look at the flow diagram as it captures the sequence of events that unfold as part of the process, where today, we’ll pay our primary attention.

As you can see today, we’ll discuss the red dotted line, which contextualizes the source data into the Vector DBs.

Let us understand the flow of events here –

  1. The main Python application will consume the nested JSON by invoking the museum API in multiple threads.
  2. The application will clean the nested data & extract the relevant attributes after flattening the JSON.
  3. It will create the unstructured text-based context, which is later fed to the Vector DB framework.

pip install farm-haystack==1.19.0
pip install Flask==2.2.5
pip install Flask-Cors==4.0.0
pip install Flask-JWT-Extended==4.5.2
pip install Flask-Session==0.5.0
pip install openai==0.27.8
pip install pandas==2.0.3
pip install tensorflow==2.11.1

We’re using the Metropolitan Museum API to feed the data to our Vector DB. For more information, please visit the following link. And this is free to use & moreover, we’re using it for education scenarios.


We’ll discuss the tokenization part highlighted in a red dotted line from the above picture.

We’ll discuss the scripts in the diagram as part of the flow mentioned above.

  • clsExtractJSON.py (This is the main class that will extract the content from the museum API using parallel calls.)
def genData(self):
    try:
        base_url = self.base_url
        header_token = self.header_token
        basePath = self.basePath
        outputPath = self.outputPath
        mergedFile = self.mergedFile
        subdir = self.subdir
        Ind = self.Ind
        var_1 = datetime.now().strftime("%H.%M.%S")


        devVal = list()
        objVal = list()

        # Main Details
        headers = {'Cookie':header_token}
        payload={}

        url = base_url + '/departments'

        date_ranges = self.generateFirstDayOfLastTenYears()

        # Getting all the departments
        try:
            print('Department URL:')
            print(str(url))

            response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, data=payload)
            parsed_data = json.loads(response.text)

            print('Department JSON:')
            print(str(parsed_data))

            # Extract the "departmentId" values into a Python list
            for dept_det in parsed_data['departments']:
                for info in dept_det:
                    if info == 'departmentId':
                        devVal.append(dept_det[info])

        except Exception as e:
            x = str(e)
            print('Error: ', x)
            devVal = list()

        # List to hold thread objects
        threads = []

        # Calling the Data using threads
        for dep in devVal:
            t = threading.Thread(target=self.getDataThread, args=(dep, base_url, headers, payload, date_ranges, objVal, subdir, Ind,))
            threads.append(t)
            t.start()

        # Wait for all threads to complete
        for t in threads:
            t.join()

        res = self.mergeCsvFilesInDirectory(basePath, outputPath, mergedFile)

        if res == 0:
            print('Successful!')
        else:
            print('Failure!')

        return 0

    except Exception as e:
        x = str(e)
        print('Error: ', x)

        return 1

The above code translates into the following steps –

  1. The above method first calls the generateFirstDayOfLastTenYears() plan to populate records for every department after getting all the unique departments by calling another API.
  2. Then, it will call the getDataThread() methods to fetch all the relevant APIs simultaneously to reduce the overall wait time & create individual smaller files.
  3. Finally, the application will invoke the mergeCsvFilesInDirectory() method to merge all the chunk files into one extensive historical data.
def generateFirstDayOfLastTenYears(self):
    yearRange = self.yearRange
    date_format = "%Y-%m-%d"
    current_year = datetime.now().year

    date_ranges = []
    for year in range(current_year - yearRange, current_year + 1):
        first_day_of_year_full = datetime(year, 1, 1)
        first_day_of_year = first_day_of_year_full.strftime(date_format)
        date_ranges.append(first_day_of_year)

    return date_ranges

The first method will generate the first day of each year for the last ten years, including the current year.

def getDataThread(self, dep, base_url, headers, payload, date_ranges, objVal, subdir, Ind):
    try:
        cnt = 0
        cnt_x = 1
        var_1 = datetime.now().strftime("%H.%M.%S")

        for x_start_date in date_ranges:
            try:
                urlM = base_url + '/objects?metadataDate=' + str(x_start_date) + '&departmentIds=' + str(dep)

                print('Nested URL:')
                print(str(urlM))

                response_obj = requests.request("GET", urlM, headers=headers, data=payload)
                objectDets = json.loads(response_obj.text)

                for obj_det in objectDets['objectIDs']:
                    objVal.append(obj_det)

                for objId in objVal:
                    urlS = base_url + '/objects/' + str(objId)

                    print('Final URL:')
                    print(str(urlS))

                    response_det = requests.request("GET", urlS, headers=headers, data=payload)
                    objDetJSON = response_det.text

                    retDB = self.createData(objDetJSON)
                    retDB['departmentId'] = str(dep)

                    if cnt == 0:
                        df_M = retDB
                    else:
                        d_frames = [df_M, retDB]
                        df_M = pd.concat(d_frames)

                    if cnt == 1000:
                        cnt = 0
                        clog.logr('df_M_' + var_1 + '_' + str(cnt_x) + '_' + str(dep) +'.csv', Ind, df_M, subdir)
                        cnt_x += 1
                        df_M = pd.DataFrame()

                    cnt += 1

            except Exception as e:
                x = str(e)
                print('Error X:', x)
        return 0

    except Exception as e:
        x = str(e)
        print('Error: ', x)

        return 1

The above method will invoke the individual API call to fetch the relevant artifact information.

def mergeCsvFilesInDirectory(self, directory_path, output_path, output_file):
    try:
        csv_files = [file for file in os.listdir(directory_path) if file.endswith('.csv')]
        data_frames = []

        for file in csv_files:
            encodings_to_try = ['utf-8', 'utf-8-sig', 'latin-1', 'cp1252']
            for encoding in encodings_to_try:
                try:
                    FullFileName = directory_path + file
                    print('File Name: ', FullFileName)
                    df = pd.read_csv(FullFileName, encoding=encoding)
                    data_frames.append(df)
                    break  # Stop trying other encodings if the reading is successful
                except UnicodeDecodeError:
                    continue

        if not data_frames:
            raise Exception("Unable to read CSV files. Check encoding or file format.")

        merged_df = pd.concat(data_frames, ignore_index=True)

        merged_full_name = os.path.join(output_path, output_file)
        merged_df.to_csv(merged_full_name, index=False)

        for file in csv_files:
            os.remove(os.path.join(directory_path, file))

        return 0

    except Exception as e:
        x = str(e)
        print('Error: ', x)
        return 1

The above method will merge all the small files into a single, more extensive historical data that contains over ten years of data (the first day of ten years of data, to be precise).

For the complete code, please visit the GitHub.

  • 1_ReadMuseumJSON.py (This is the main class that will invoke the class, which will extract the content from the museum API using parallel calls.)
#########################################################
#### Written By: SATYAKI DE                          ####
#### Written On: 27-Jun-2023                         ####
#### Modified On 28-Jun-2023                         ####
####                                                 ####
#### Objective: This is the main calling             ####
#### python script that will invoke the              ####
#### shortcut application created inside MAC         ####
#### enviornment including MacBook, IPad or IPhone.  ####
####                                                 ####
#########################################################
import datetime
from clsConfigClient import clsConfigClient as cf

import clsExtractJSON as cej

########################################################
################    Global Area   ######################
########################################################

cJSON = cej.clsExtractJSON()

basePath = cf.conf['DATA_PATH']
outputPath = cf.conf['OUTPUT_PATH']
mergedFile = cf.conf['MERGED_FILE']

########################################################
################  End Of Global Area   #################
########################################################

# Disbling Warning
def warn(*args, **kwargs):
    pass

import warnings
warnings.warn = warn

def main():
    try:
        var = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
        print('*'*120)
        print('Start Time: ' + str(var))
        print('*'*120)

        r1 = cJSON.genData()

        if r1 == 0:
            print()
            print('Successfully Scrapped!')
        else:
            print()
            print('Failed to Scrappe!')

        print('*'*120)
        var1 = datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
        print('End Time: ' + str(var1))

    except Exception as e:
        x = str(e)
        print('Error: ', x)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

The above script calls the main class after instantiating the class.

  • clsCreateList.py (This is the main class that will extract the relevant attributes from the historical files & then create the right input text to create the documents for contextualize into the Vector DB framework.)
def createRec(self):
    try:
        basePath = self.basePath
        fileName = self.fileName
        Ind = self.Ind
        subdir = self.subdir
        base_url = self.base_url
        outputPath = self.outputPath
        mergedFile = self.mergedFile
        cleanedFile = self.cleanedFile

        FullFileName = outputPath + mergedFile

        df = pd.read_csv(FullFileName)
        df2 = df[listCol]
        dfFin = df2.drop_duplicates().reset_index(drop=True)

        dfFin['artist_URL'] = dfFin['artistWikidata_URL'].combine_first(dfFin['artistULAN_URL'])
        dfFin['object_URL'] = dfFin['objectURL'].combine_first(dfFin['objectWikidata_URL'])
        dfFin['Wiki_URL'] = dfFin['Wikidata_URL'].combine_first(dfFin['AAT_URL']).combine_first(dfFin['URL']).combine_first(dfFin['object_URL'])

        # Dropping the old Dtype Columns
        dfFin.drop(['artistWikidata_URL'], axis=1, inplace=True)
        dfFin.drop(['artistULAN_URL'], axis=1, inplace=True)
        dfFin.drop(['objectURL'], axis=1, inplace=True)
        dfFin.drop(['objectWikidata_URL'], axis=1, inplace=True)
        dfFin.drop(['AAT_URL'], axis=1, inplace=True)
        dfFin.drop(['Wikidata_URL'], axis=1, inplace=True)
        dfFin.drop(['URL'], axis=1, inplace=True)

        # Save the filtered DataFrame to a new CSV file
        #clog.logr(cleanedFile, Ind, dfFin, subdir)
        res = self.addHash(dfFin)

        if res == 0:
            print('Added Hash!')
        else:
            print('Failed to add hash!')

        # Generate the text for each row in the dataframe
        for _, row in dfFin.iterrows():
            x = self.genPrompt(row)
            self.addDocument(x, cleanedFile)

        return documents

    except Exception as e:
        x = str(e)
        print('Record Error: ', x)

        return documents

The above code will read the data from the extensive historical file created from the earlier steps & then it will clean the file by removing all the duplicate records (if any) & finally, it will create three unique URLs that constitute artist, object & wiki.

Also, this application will remove the hyperlink with a specific hash value, which will feed into the vector DB. Vector DB could be better with the URLs. Hence, we will store the URLs in a separate file by storing the associate hash value & later, we’ll fetch it in a lookup from the open AI response.

Then, this application will generate prompts dynamically & finally create the documents for later steps of vector DB consumption by invoking the addDocument() methods.

For more details, please visit the GitHub link.

  • 1_1_testCreateRec.py (This is the main class that will call the above class.)
#########################################################
#### Written By: SATYAKI DE                          ####
#### Written On: 27-Jun-2023                         ####
#### Modified On 28-Jun-2023                         ####
####                                                 ####
#### Objective: This is the main calling             ####
#### python script that will invoke the              ####
#### shortcut application created inside MAC         ####
#### enviornment including MacBook, IPad or IPhone.  ####
####                                                 ####
#########################################################

from clsConfigClient import clsConfigClient as cf
import clsL as log
import clsCreateList as ccl

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

# Disbling Warning
def warn(*args, **kwargs):
    pass

import warnings
warnings.warn = warn

###############################################
###           Global Section                ###
###############################################

#Initiating Logging Instances
clog = log.clsL()
cl = ccl.clsCreateList()

var = datetime.now().strftime(".%H.%M.%S")

documents = []

###############################################
###    End of Global Section                ###
###############################################
def main():
    try:
        var = datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
        print('*'*120)
        print('Start Time: ' + str(var))
        print('*'*120)

        print('*'*240)
        print('Creating Index store:: ')
        print('*'*240)

        documents = cl.createRec()

        print('Inserted Sample Records: ')
        print(str(documents))
        print('\n')

        r1 = len(documents)

        if r1 > 0:
            print()
            print('Successfully Indexed sample records!')
        else:
            print()
            print('Failed to sample Indexed recrods!')

        print('*'*120)
        var1 = datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
        print('End Time: ' + str(var1))

    except Exception as e:
        x = str(e)
        print('Error: ', x)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

The above script invokes the main class after instantiating it & invokes the createRec() methods to tokenize the data into the vector DB.

This above test script will be used to test the above clsCreateList class. However, the class will be used inside another class.

– Satyaki
  • clsFeedVectorDB.py (This is the main class that will feed the documents into the vector DB.)
#########################################################
#### Written By: SATYAKI DE                          ####
#### Written On: 27-Jun-2023                         ####
#### Modified On 28-Sep-2023                         ####
####                                                 ####
#### Objective: This is the main calling             ####
#### python script that will invoke the              ####
#### haystack frameowrk to contextulioze the docs    ####
#### inside the vector DB.                           ####
####                                                 ####
#########################################################

from haystack.document_stores.faiss import FAISSDocumentStore
from haystack.nodes import DensePassageRetriever
import openai
import pandas as pd
import os
import clsCreateList as ccl

from clsConfigClient import clsConfigClient as cf
import clsL as log

from datetime import datetime, timedelta

# Disbling Warning
def warn(*args, **kwargs):
    pass

import warnings
warnings.warn = warn

###############################################
###           Global Section                ###
###############################################

Ind = cf.conf['DEBUG_IND']
openAIKey = cf.conf['OPEN_AI_KEY']

os.environ["TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM"] = "false"

#Initiating Logging Instances
clog = log.clsL()
cl = ccl.clsCreateList()

var = datetime.now().strftime(".%H.%M.%S")

# Encode your data to create embeddings
documents = []

var_1 = datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
print('*'*120)
print('Start Time: ' + str(var_1))
print('*'*120)

print('*'*240)
print('Creating Index store:: ')
print('*'*240)

documents = cl.createRec()

print('Inserted Sample Records: ')
print(documents[:5])
print('\n')
print('Type:')
print(type(documents))

r1 = len(documents)

if r1 > 0:
    print()
    print('Successfully Indexed records!')
else:
    print()
    print('Failed to Indexed recrods!')

print('*'*120)
var_2 = datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S")
print('End Time: ' + str(var_2))

# Passing OpenAI API Key
openai.api_key = openAIKey

###############################################
###    End of Global Section                ###
###############################################

class clsFeedVectorDB:
    def __init__(self):
        self.basePath = cf.conf['DATA_PATH']
        self.modelFileName = cf.conf['CACHE_FILE']
        self.vectorDBPath = cf.conf['VECTORDB_PATH']
        self.vectorDBFileName = cf.conf['VECTORDB_FILE_NM']
        self.queryModel = cf.conf['QUERY_MODEL']
        self.passageModel = cf.conf['PASSAGE_MODEL']

    def retrieveDocuments(self, question, retriever, top_k=3):
        return retriever.retrieve(question, top_k=top_k)

    def generateAnswerWithGPT3(self, retrievedDocs, question):
        documents_text = " ".join([doc.content for doc in retrievedDocs])
        prompt = f"Given the following documents: {documents_text}, answer the question: {question}"

        response = openai.Completion.create(
            model="text-davinci-003",
            prompt=prompt,
            max_tokens=150
        )
        return response.choices[0].text.strip()

    def ragAnswerWithHaystackAndGPT3(self, question, retriever):
        retrievedDocs = self.retrieveDocuments(question, retriever)
        return self.generateAnswerWithGPT3(retrievedDocs, question)

    def genData(self, strVal):
        try:
            basePath = self.basePath
            modelFileName = self.modelFileName
            vectorDBPath = self.vectorDBPath
            vectorDBFileName = self.vectorDBFileName
            queryModel = self.queryModel
            passageModel = self.passageModel

            print('*'*120)
            print('Index Your Data for Retrieval:')
            print('*'*120)

            FullFileName = basePath + modelFileName
            FullVectorDBname = vectorDBPath + vectorDBFileName

            sqlite_path = "sqlite:///" + FullVectorDBname + '.db'
            print('Vector DB Path: ', str(sqlite_path))

            indexFile = "vectorDB/" + str(vectorDBFileName) + '.faiss'
            indexConfig = "vectorDB/" + str(vectorDBFileName) + ".json"

            print('File: ', str(indexFile))
            print('Config: ', str(indexConfig))

            # Initialize DocumentStore
            document_store = FAISSDocumentStore(sql_url=sqlite_path)

            libName = "vectorDB/" + str(vectorDBFileName) + '.faiss'

            document_store.write_documents(documents)

            # Initialize Retriever
            retriever = DensePassageRetriever(document_store=document_store,
                                              query_embedding_model=queryModel,
                                              passage_embedding_model=passageModel,
                                              use_gpu=False)

            document_store.update_embeddings(retriever=retriever)

            document_store.save(index_path=libName, config_path="vectorDB/" + str(vectorDBFileName) + ".json")

            print('*'*120)
            print('Testing with RAG & OpenAI...')
            print('*'*120)

            answer = self.ragAnswerWithHaystackAndGPT3(strVal, retriever)

            print('*'*120)
            print('Testing Answer:: ')
            print(answer)
            print('*'*120)

            return 0

        except Exception as e:
            x = str(e)
            print('Error: ', x)

            return 1

In the above script, the following essential steps took place –

  1. First, the application calls the clsCreateList class to store all the documents inside a dictionary.
  2. Then it stores the data inside the vector DB & creates & stores the model, which will be later reused (If you remember, we’ve used this as a model in our previous post).
  3. Finally, test with some sample use cases by providing the proper context to OpenAI & confirm the response.

Here is a short clip of how the RAG models contextualize with the source data.

RAG-Model Contextualization

So, finally, we’ve done it.

I know that this post is relatively bigger than my earlier post. But, I think, you can get all the details once you go through it.

You will get the complete codebase in the following GitHub link.

I’ll bring some more exciting topics in the coming days from the Python verse. Please share & subscribe to my post & let me know your feedback.

Till then, Happy Avenging! 🙂

RAG implementation of LLMs by using Python, Haystack & React (Part – 1)

Today, I will share a new post in a part series about creating end-end LLMs that feed source data with RAG implementation. I’ll also use OpenAI python-based SDK and Haystack embeddings in this case.

In this post, I’ve directly subscribed to OpenAI & I’m not using OpenAI from Azure. However, I’ll explore that in the future as well.

Before I explain the process to invoke this new library, why not view the demo first & then discuss it?

Demo

Let us look at the flow diagram as it captures the sequence of events that unfold as part of the process.

As you can see, to enable this large & complex solution, we must first establish the capabilities to build applications powered by LLMs, Transformer models, vector search, and more. You can use state-of-the-art NLP models to perform question-answering, answer generation, semantic document search, or build tools capable of complex decision-making and query resolution. Hence, steps no. 1 & 2 showcased the data embedding & creating that informed repository. We’ll be discussing that in our second part.

Once you have the informed repository, the system can interact with the end-users. As part of the query (shown in step 3), the prompt & the question are shared with the process engine, which then turned to reduce the volume & get relevant context from our informed repository & get the tuned context as part of the response (Shown in steps 4, 5 & 6).

Then, this tuned context is shared with the OpenAI for better response & summary & concluding remarks that are very user-friendly & easier to understand for end-users (Shown in steps 8 & 9).

The following are the important packages that are essential to this project –

pip install farm-haystack==1.19.0
pip install Flask==2.2.5
pip install Flask-Cors==4.0.0
pip install Flask-JWT-Extended==4.5.2
pip install Flask-Session==0.5.0
pip install openai==0.27.8
pip install pandas==2.0.3
pip install tensorflow==2.11.1

We’ve both the front-end using react & back-end APIs with Python-flask and the Open AI to create this experience.

Today, we’ll be going in reverse mode. We first discuss the main script & then explain all the other class scripts.

  • flaskServer.py (This is the main calling Python script to invoke the RAG-Server.)
#########################################################
#### Written By: SATYAKI DE                          ####
#### Written On: 27-Jun-2023                         ####
#### Modified On 28-Jun-2023                         ####
####                                                 ####
#### Objective: This is the main calling             ####
#### python script that will invoke the              ####
#### shortcut application created inside MAC         ####
#### enviornment including MacBook, IPad or IPhone.  ####
####                                                 ####
#########################################################

from flask import Flask, jsonify, request, session
from flask_cors import CORS
from werkzeug.security import check_password_hash, generate_password_hash
from flask_jwt_extended import JWTManager, jwt_required, create_access_token
import pandas as pd
from clsConfigClient import clsConfigClient as cf
import clsL as log
import clsContentScrapper as csc
import clsRAGOpenAI as crao
import csv
from datetime import timedelta
import os
import re
import json

########################################################
################    Global Area   ######################
########################################################
#Initiating Logging Instances
clog = log.clsL()

admin_key = cf.conf['ADMIN_KEY']
secret_key = cf.conf['SECRET_KEY']
session_path = cf.conf['SESSION_PATH']
sessionFile = cf.conf['SESSION_CACHE_FILE']

app = Flask(__name__)
CORS(app)  # This will enable CORS for all routes
app.config['JWT_SECRET_KEY'] = admin_key  # Change this!
app.secret_key = secret_key

jwt = JWTManager(app)

users = cf.conf['USER_NM']
passwd = cf.conf['USER_PWD']

cCScrapper = csc.clsContentScrapper()
cr = crao.clsRAGOpenAI()

# Disbling Warning
def warn(*args, **kwargs):
    pass

import warnings
warnings.warn = warn

# Define the aggregation functions
def join_unique(series):
    unique_vals = series.drop_duplicates().astype(str)
    return ', '.join(filter(lambda x: x != 'nan', unique_vals))

# Building the preaggregate cache
def groupImageWiki():
    try:
        base_path = cf.conf['OUTPUT_PATH']
        inputFile = cf.conf['CLEANED_FILE']
        outputFile = cf.conf['CLEANED_FILE_SHORT']
        subdir = cf.conf['SUBDIR_OUT']
        Ind = cf.conf['DEBUG_IND']

        inputCleanedFileLookUp = base_path + inputFile

        #Opening the file in dataframe
        df = pd.read_csv(inputCleanedFileLookUp)
        hash_values = df['Total_Hash'].unique()

        dFin = df[['primaryImage','Wiki_URL','Total_Hash']]

        # Ensure columns are strings and not NaN
        # Convert columns to string and replace 'nan' with an empty string
        dFin['primaryImage'] = dFin['primaryImage'].astype(str).replace('nan', '')
        dFin['Wiki_URL'] = dFin['Wiki_URL'].astype(str).replace('nan', '')

        dFin.drop_duplicates()

        # Group by 'Total_Hash' and aggregate
        dfAgg = dFin.groupby('Total_Hash').agg({'primaryImage': join_unique,'Wiki_URL': join_unique}).reset_index()

        return dfAgg

    except Exception as e:
        x = str(e)
        print('Error: ', x)

        df = pd.DataFrame()

        return df

resDf = groupImageWiki()

########################################################
################  End  Global Area  ####################
########################################################

def extractRemoveUrls(hash_value):
    image_urls = ''
    wiki_urls = ''
    # Parse the inner message JSON string
    try:

        resDf['Total_Hash'] = resDf['Total_Hash'].astype(int)
        filtered_df = resDf[resDf['Total_Hash'] == int(hash_value)]

        if not filtered_df.empty:
            image_urls = filtered_df['primaryImage'].values[0]
            wiki_urls = filtered_df['Wiki_URL'].values[0]

        return image_urls, wiki_urls

    except Exception as e:
        x = str(e)
        print('extractRemoveUrls Error: ', x)
        return image_urls, wiki_urls

def isIncomplete(line):
    """Check if a line appears to be incomplete."""

    # Check if the line ends with certain patterns indicating it might be incomplete.
    incomplete_patterns = [': [Link](', ': Approximately ', ': ']
    return any(line.endswith(pattern) for pattern in incomplete_patterns)

def filterData(data):
    """Return only the complete lines from the data."""

    lines = data.split('\n')
    complete_lines = [line for line in lines if not isIncomplete(line)]

    return '\n'.join(complete_lines)

def updateCounter(sessionFile):
    try:
        counter = 0

        # Check if the CSV file exists
        if os.path.exists(sessionFile):
            with open(sessionFile, 'r') as f:
                reader = csv.reader(f)
                for row in reader:
                    # Assuming the counter is the first value in the CSV
                    counter = int(row[0])

        # Increment counter
        counter += 1

        # Write counter back to CSV
        with open(sessionFile, 'w', newline='') as f:
            writer = csv.writer(f)
            writer.writerow([counter])

        return counter
    except Exception as e:
        x = str(e)
        print('Error: ', x)

        return 1

def getPreviousResult():
    try:
        fullFileName = session_path + sessionFile
        newCounterValue = updateCounter(fullFileName)

        return newCounterValue
    except Exception as e:
        x = str(e)
        print('Error: ', x)

        return 1

@app.route('/login', methods=['POST'])
def login():
    username = request.json.get('username', None)
    password = request.json.get('password', None)

    print('User Name: ', str(username))
    print('Password: ', str(password))

    #if username not in users or not check_password_hash(users.get(username), password):
    if ((username not in users) or (password not in passwd)):
        return jsonify({'login': False}), 401

    access_token = create_access_token(identity=username)
    return jsonify(access_token=access_token)

@app.route('/chat', methods=['POST'])
def get_chat():
    try:
        #session["key"] = "1D98KI"
        #session_id = session.sid
        #print('Session Id: ', str(session_id))

        cnt = getPreviousResult()
        print('Running Session Count: ', str(cnt))

        username = request.json.get('username', None)
        message = request.json.get('message', None)

        print('User: ', str(username))
        print('Content: ', str(message))

        if cnt == 1:
            retList = cCScrapper.extractCatalog()
        else:
            hashValue, cleanedData = cr.getData(str(message))
            print('Main Hash Value:', str(hashValue))

            imageUrls, wikiUrls = extractRemoveUrls(hashValue)
            print('Image URLs: ', str(imageUrls))
            print('Wiki URLs: ', str(wikiUrls))
            print('Clean Text:')
            print(str(cleanedData))
            retList = '{"records":[{"Id":"' + str(cleanedData) + '", "Image":"' + str(imageUrls) + '", "Wiki": "' + str(wikiUrls) + '"}]}'

        response = {
            'message': retList
        }

        print('JSON: ', str(response))
        return jsonify(response)

    except Exception as e:
        x = str(e)

        response = {
            'message': 'Error: ' + x
        }
        return jsonify(response)

@app.route('/api/data', methods=['GET'])
@jwt_required()
def get_data():
    response = {
        'message': 'Hello from Flask!'
    }
    return jsonify(response)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run(debug=True)

Let us understand some of the important sections of the above script –

Function – login():

The login function retrieves a ‘username’ and ‘password’ from a JSON request and prints them. It checks if the provided credentials are missing from users or password lists, returning a failure JSON response if so. It creates and returns an access token in a JSON response if valid.

Function – get_chat():

The get_chat function retrieves the running session count and user input from a JSON request. Based on the session count, it extracts catalog data or processes the user’s message from the RAG framework that finally receives the refined response from the OpenAI, extracting hash values, image URLs, and wiki URLs. If an error arises, the function captures and returns the error as a JSON message.

Function – updateCounter():

The updateCounter function checks if a given CSV file exists and retrieves its counter value. It then increments the counter and writes it back to the CSV. If any errors occur, an error message is printed, and the function returns a value of 1.

Function – extractRemoveUrls():

The extractRemoveUrls function attempts to filter a data frame, resDf, based on a provided hash value to extract image and wiki URLs. If the data frame contains matching entries, it retrieves the corresponding URLs. Any errors encountered are printed, but the function always returns the image and wiki URLs, even if they are empty.

  • clsContentScrapper.py (This is the main class that brings the default options for the users if they agree with the initial prompt by the bot.)
#####################################################
#### Written By: SATYAKI DE                      ####
#### Written On: 27-May-2023                     ####
#### Modified On 28-May-2023                     ####
####                                             ####
#### Objective: This is the main calling         ####
#### python class that will invoke the           ####
#### LangChain of package to extract             ####
#### the transcript from the YouTube videos &    ####
#### then answer the questions based on the      ####
#### topics selected by the users.               ####
####                                             ####
#####################################################

from langchain.document_loaders import YoutubeLoader
from langchain.text_splitter import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter
from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings
from langchain.vectorstores import FAISS
from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI
from langchain.chains import LLMChain

from langchain.prompts.chat import (
    ChatPromptTemplate,
    SystemMessagePromptTemplate,
    HumanMessagePromptTemplate,
)

from googleapiclient.discovery import build

import clsTemplate as ct
from clsConfigClient import clsConfigClient as cf

import os

from flask import jsonify
import requests

###############################################
###           Global Section                ###
###############################################
open_ai_Key = cf.conf['OPEN_AI_KEY']
os.environ["OPENAI_API_KEY"] = open_ai_Key
embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings(openai_api_key=open_ai_Key)

YouTube_Key = cf.conf['YOUTUBE_KEY']
youtube = build('youtube', 'v3', developerKey=YouTube_Key)

# Disbling Warning
def warn(*args, **kwargs):
    pass

import warnings
warnings.warn = warn

###############################################
###    End of Global Section                ###
###############################################

class clsContentScrapper:
    def __init__(self):
        self.model_name = cf.conf['MODEL_NAME']
        self.temp_val = cf.conf['TEMP_VAL']
        self.max_cnt = int(cf.conf['MAX_CNT'])
        self.url = cf.conf['BASE_URL']
        self.header_token = cf.conf['HEADER_TOKEN']

    def extractCatalog(self):
        try:
            base_url = self.url
            header_token = self.header_token

            url = base_url + '/departments'

            print('Full URL: ', str(url))

            payload={}
            headers = {'Cookie': header_token}

            response = requests.request("GET", url, headers=headers, data=payload)

            x = response.text

            return x
        except Exception as e:
            discussedTopic = []
            x = str(e)
            print('Error: ', x)

            return x

Let us understand the the core part that require from this class.

Function – extractCatalog():

The extractCatalog function uses specific headers to make a GET request to a constructed URL. The URL is derived by appending ‘/departments’ to a base_url, and a header token is used in the request headers. If successful, it returns the text of the response; if there’s an exception, it prints the error and returns the error message.

  • clsRAGOpenAI.py (This is the main class that brings the RAG-enabled context that is fed to OpenAI for fine-tuned response with less cost.)
#########################################################
#### Written By: SATYAKI DE                          ####
#### Written On: 27-Jun-2023                         ####
#### Modified On 28-Jun-2023                         ####
####                                                 ####
#### Objective: This is the main calling             ####
#### python script that will invoke the              ####
#### shortcut application created inside MAC         ####
#### enviornment including MacBook, IPad or IPhone.  ####
####                                                 ####
#########################################################

from haystack.document_stores.faiss import FAISSDocumentStore
from haystack.nodes import DensePassageRetriever
import openai

from clsConfigClient import clsConfigClient as cf
import clsL as log

# Disbling Warning
def warn(*args, **kwargs):
    pass

import warnings
warnings.warn = warn

import os
import re
###############################################
###           Global Section                ###
###############################################
Ind = cf.conf['DEBUG_IND']
queryModel = cf.conf['QUERY_MODEL']
passageModel = cf.conf['PASSAGE_MODEL']

#Initiating Logging Instances
clog = log.clsL()

os.environ["TOKENIZERS_PARALLELISM"] = "false"

vectorDBFileName = cf.conf['VECTORDB_FILE_NM']

indexFile = "vectorDB/" + str(vectorDBFileName) + '.faiss'
indexConfig = "vectorDB/" + str(vectorDBFileName) + ".json"

print('File: ', str(indexFile))
print('Config: ', str(indexConfig))

# Also, provide `config_path` parameter if you set it when calling the `save()` method:
new_document_store = FAISSDocumentStore.load(index_path=indexFile, config_path=indexConfig)

# Initialize Retriever
retriever = DensePassageRetriever(document_store=new_document_store,
                                  query_embedding_model=queryModel,
                                  passage_embedding_model=passageModel,
                                  use_gpu=False)


###############################################
###    End of Global Section                ###
###############################################

class clsRAGOpenAI:
    def __init__(self):
        self.basePath = cf.conf['DATA_PATH']
        self.fileName = cf.conf['FILE_NAME']
        self.Ind = cf.conf['DEBUG_IND']
        self.subdir = str(cf.conf['OUT_DIR'])
        self.base_url = cf.conf['BASE_URL']
        self.outputPath = cf.conf['OUTPUT_PATH']
        self.vectorDBPath = cf.conf['VECTORDB_PATH']
        self.openAIKey = cf.conf['OPEN_AI_KEY']
        self.temp = cf.conf['TEMP_VAL']
        self.modelName = cf.conf['MODEL_NAME']
        self.maxToken = cf.conf['MAX_TOKEN']

    def extractHash(self, text):
        try:
            # Regular expression pattern to match 'Ref: {' followed by a number and then '}'
            pattern = r"Ref: \{'(\d+)'\}"
            match = re.search(pattern, text)

            if match:
                return match.group(1)
            else:
                return None
        except Exception as e:
            x = str(e)
            print('Error: ', x)

            return None

    def removeSentencesWithNaN(self, text):
        try:
            # Split text into sentences using regular expression
            sentences = re.split('(?<!\w\.\w.)(?<![A-Z][a-z]\.)(?<=\.|\?)\s', text)
            # Filter out sentences containing 'nan'
            filteredSentences = [sentence for sentence in sentences if 'nan' not in sentence]
            # Rejoin the sentences
            return ' '.join(filteredSentences)
        except Exception as e:
            x = str(e)
            print('Error: ', x)

            return ''

    def retrieveDocumentsReader(self, question, top_k=9):
        return retriever.retrieve(question, top_k=top_k)

    def generateAnswerWithGPT3(self, retrieved_docs, question):
        try:
            openai.api_key = self.openAIKey
            temp = self.temp
            modelName = self.modelName
            maxToken = self.maxToken

            documentsText = " ".join([doc.content for doc in retrieved_docs])

            filteredDocs = self.removeSentencesWithNaN(documentsText)
            hashValue = self.extractHash(filteredDocs)

            print('RAG Docs:: ')
            print(filteredDocs)
            #prompt = f"Given the following documents: {documentsText}, answer the question accurately based on the above data with the supplied http urls: {question}"

            # Set up a chat-style prompt with your data
            messages = [
                {"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful assistant, answer the question accurately based on the above data with the supplied http urls. Only relevant content needs to publish. Please do not provide the facts or the texts that results crossing the max_token limits."},
                {"role": "user", "content": filteredDocs}
            ]

            # Chat style invoking the latest model
            response = openai.ChatCompletion.create(
                model=modelName,
                messages=messages,
                temperature = temp,
                max_tokens=maxToken
            )
            return hashValue, response.choices[0].message['content'].strip().replace('\n','\\n')
        except Exception as e:
            x = str(e)
            print('failed to get from OpenAI: ', x)
            return 'Not Available!'

    def ragAnswerWithHaystackAndGPT3(self, question):
        retrievedDocs = self.retrieveDocumentsReader(question)
        return self.generateAnswerWithGPT3(retrievedDocs, question)

    def getData(self, strVal):
        try:
            print('*'*120)
            print('Index Your Data for Retrieval:')
            print('*'*120)

            print('Response from New Docs: ')
            print()

            hashValue, answer = self.ragAnswerWithHaystackAndGPT3(strVal)

            print('GPT3 Answer::')
            print(answer)
            print('Hash Value:')
            print(str(hashValue))

            print('*'*240)
            print('End Of Use RAG to Generate Answers:')
            print('*'*240)

            return hashValue, answer
        except Exception as e:
            x = str(e)
            print('Error: ', x)
            answer = x
            hashValue = 1

            return hashValue, answer

Let us understand some of the important block –

Function – ragAnswerWithHaystackAndGPT3():

The ragAnswerWithHaystackAndGPT3 function retrieves relevant documents for a given question using the retrieveDocumentsReader method. It then generates an answer for the query using GPT-3 with the retrieved documents via the generateAnswerWithGPT3 method. The final response is returned.

Function – generateAnswerWithGPT3():

The generateAnswerWithGPT3 function, given a list of retrieved documents and a question, communicates with OpenAI’s GPT-3 to generate an answer. It first processes the documents, filtering and extracting a hash value. Using a chat-style format, it prompts GPT-3 with the processed documents and captures its response. If an error occurs, an error message is printed, and “Not Available!” is returned.

Function – retrieveDocumentsReader():

The retrieveDocumentsReader function takes in a question and an optional parameter, top_k (defaulted to 9). It is called the retriever.retrieve method with the given parameters. The result of the retrieval will generate at max nine responses from the RAG engine, which will be fed to OpenAI.

  • App.js (This is the main react script, that will create the interface & parse the data apart from the authentication)
// App.js
import React, { useState } from 'react';
import axios from 'axios';
import './App.css';

const App = () => {
  const [isLoggedIn, setIsLoggedIn] = useState(false);
  const [username, setUsername] = useState('');
  const [password, setPassword] = useState('');
  const [message, setMessage] = useState('');
  const [chatLog, setChatLog] = useState([{ sender: 'MuBot', message: 'Welcome to MuBot! Please explore the world of History from our brilliant collections! Do you want to proceed to see the catalog?'}]);

  const handleLogin = async (e) => {
    e.preventDefault();
    try {
      const response = await axios.post('http://localhost:5000/login', { username, password });
      if (response.status === 200) {
        setIsLoggedIn(true);
      }
    } catch (error) {
      console.error('Login error:', error);
    }
  };

  const sendMessage = async (username) => {
    if (message.trim() === '') return;

    // Create a new chat entry
    const newChatEntry = {
      sender: 'user',
      message: message.trim(),
    };

    // Clear the input field
    setMessage('');

    try {
      // Make API request to Python-based API
      const response = await axios.post('http://localhost:5000/chat', { message: newChatEntry.message }); // Replace with your API endpoint URL
      const responseData = response.data;

      // Print the response to the console for debugging
      console.log('API Response:', responseData);

      // Parse the nested JSON from the 'message' attribute
      const jsonData = JSON.parse(responseData.message);

      // Check if the data contains 'departments'
      if (jsonData.departments) {

        // Extract the 'departments' attribute from the parsed data
        const departments = jsonData.departments;

        // Extract the department names and create a single string with line breaks
        const botResponseText = departments.reduce((acc, department) => {return acc + department.departmentId + ' ' + department.displayName + '\n';}, '');

        // Update the chat log with the bot's response
        setChatLog((prevChatLog) => [...prevChatLog, { sender: 'user', message: message }, { sender: 'bot', message: botResponseText },]);
      }
      else if (jsonData.records)
      {
        // Data structure 2: Artwork information
        const records = jsonData.records;

        // Prepare chat entries
        const chatEntries = [];

        // Iterate through records and extract text, image, and wiki information
        records.forEach((record) => {
          const textInfo = Object.entries(record).map(([key, value]) => {
            if (key !== 'Image' && key !== 'Wiki') {
              return `${key}: ${value}`;
            }
            return null;
          }).filter((info) => info !== null).join('\n');

          const imageLink = record.Image;
          //const wikiLinks = JSON.parse(record.Wiki.replace(/'/g, '"'));
          //const wikiLinks = record.Wiki;
          const wikiLinks = record.Wiki.split(',').map(link => link.trim());

          console.log('Wiki:', wikiLinks);

          // Check if there is a valid image link
          const hasValidImage = imageLink && imageLink !== '[]';

          const imageElement = hasValidImage ? (
            <img src={imageLink} alt="Artwork" style={{ maxWidth: '100%' }} />
          ) : null;

          // Create JSX elements for rendering the wiki links (if available)
          const wikiElements = wikiLinks.map((link, index) => (
            <div key={index}>
              <a href={link} target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
                Wiki Link {index + 1}
              </a>
            </div>
          ));

          if (textInfo) {
            chatEntries.push({ sender: 'bot', message: textInfo });
          }

          if (imageElement) {
            chatEntries.push({ sender: 'bot', message: imageElement });
          }

          if (wikiElements.length > 0) {
            chatEntries.push({ sender: 'bot', message: wikiElements });
          }
        });

        // Update the chat log with the bot's response
        setChatLog((prevChatLog) => [...prevChatLog, { sender: 'user', message }, ...chatEntries, ]);
      }

    } catch (error) {
      console.error('Error sending message:', error);
    }
  };

  if (!isLoggedIn) {
    return (
      <div className="login-container">
        <h2>Welcome to the MuBot</h2>
        <form onSubmit={handleLogin} className="login-form">
          <input
            type="text"
            placeholder="Enter your name"
            value={username}
            onChange={(e) => setUsername(e.target.value)}
            required
          />
          <input
            type="password"
            placeholder="Enter your password"
            value={password}
            onChange={(e) => setPassword(e.target.value)}
            required
          />
          <button type="submit">Login</button>
        </form>
      </div>
    );
  }

  return (
    <div className="chat-container">
      <div className="chat-header">
        <h2>Hello, {username}</h2>
        <h3>Chat with MuBot</h3>
      </div>
      <div className="chat-log">
        {chatLog.map((chatEntry, index) => (
          <div
            key={index}
            className={`chat-entry ${chatEntry.sender === 'user' ? 'user' : 'bot'}`}
          >
            <span className="user-name">{chatEntry.sender === 'user' ? username : 'MuBot'}</span>
            <p className="chat-message">{chatEntry.message}</p>
          </div>
        ))}
      </div>
      <div className="chat-input">
        <input
          type="text"
          placeholder="Type your message..."
          value={message}
          onChange={(e) => setMessage(e.target.value)}
          onKeyPress={(e) => {
            if (e.key === 'Enter') {
              sendMessage();
            }
          }}
        />
        <button onClick={sendMessage}>Send</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  );
};

export default App;

Please find some of the important logic –

Function – handleLogin():

The handleLogin asynchronous function responds to an event by preventing its default action. It attempts to post a login request with a username and password to a local server endpoint. If the response is successful with a status of 200, it updates a state variable to indicate a successful login; otherwise, it logs any encountered errors.

Function – sendMessage():

The sendMessage asynchronous function is designed to handle the user’s chat interaction:

  1. If the message is empty (after trimming spaces), the function exits without further action.
  2. A chat entry object is created with the sender set as ‘user’ and the trimmed message.
  3. The input field’s message is cleared, and an API request is made to a local server endpoint with the chat message.
  4. If the API responds with a ‘departments’ attribute in its JSON, a bot response is crafted by iterating over department details.
  5. If the API responds with ‘records’ indicating artwork information, the bot crafts responses for each record, extracting text, images, and wiki links, and generating JSX elements for rendering them.
  6. After processing the API response, the chat log state is updated with the user’s original message and the bot’s responses.
  7. Errors, if encountered, are logged to the console.

This function enables interactive chat with bot responses that vary based on the nature of the data received from the API.


Let us explore the directory structure starting from the parent to some of the important child folder should look like this –


So, finally, we’ve done it.

I know that this post is relatively bigger than my earlier post. But, I think, you can get all the details once you go through it.

You will get the complete codebase in the following GitHub link.

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