DeepsetCSVRowsToDocumentsConverter

Read CSV files from various sources and convert each row into Haystack documents.

Basic Information

• Type: deepset_cloud_custom_nodes.converters.csv_rows_to_documents.DeepsetCSVRowsToDocumentsConverter
• Components it can connect with:
  • FileTypeRouter: DeepsetCSVRowsToDocumentsConverter can receive CSV files from FileTypeRouter.
  • PreProcessor: DeepsetCSVRowsToDocumentsConverter can send converted documents to a PreProcessor such as DocumentSplitter.

Inputs

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
sources	List[Union[str, Path, ByteStream]]		List of CSV file paths (str or Path) or ByteStream objects.
meta	Optional[Union[Dict[str, Any], List[Dict[str, Any]]]]	None	Optional metadata to attach to the documents. Can be a single dict or a list of dicts.

Outputs

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
documents	List[Document]		A dictionary containing a list of Haystack Documents.

Overview

DeepsetCSVRowsToDocumentsConverter reads a CSV file and converts each row into a Document object, using the content column as the document's main content. You can specify a different column for content using the content_column parameter.

All other columns are added to the document’s metadata.

Usage Example

Using the Component in a Pipeline

This is an example of an index that processes multiple file types. It starts with FilesInput followed by file_classifier (FileTypeRouter) which classifies files by type and sends them to an appropriate converter.

DeepsetCSVRowsToDocumentsConverter receives CSV files from file_classifier (FileTypeRouter) and outputs a list of pre-chunked documents. Since these documents are already chunked, they bypass the splitter (DeepsetDocumentSplitter) and go directly to the document_embedder (SentenceTransformersDocumentEmbedder) and finally to the writer (DocumentWriter), which writes them into the document store.

YAML configuration:

components:
  file_classifier:
    type: haystack.components.routers.file_type_router.FileTypeRouter
    init_parameters:
      mime_types:
        - text/markdown
        - text/html
        - text/csv
  markdown_converter:
    type: haystack.components.converters.markdown.MarkdownToDocument
    init_parameters: {}
  html_converter:
    type: haystack.components.converters.html.HTMLToDocument
    init_parameters:
      extraction_kwargs:
        output_format: txt
        target_language: null
        include_tables: true
        include_links: false
  splitter:
    type: deepset_cloud_custom_nodes.preprocessors.document_splitter.DeepsetDocumentSplitter
    init_parameters:
      split_by: word
      split_length: 250
      split_overlap: 30
      respect_sentence_boundary: true
      language: en
  document_embedder:
    type: haystack.components.embedders.sentence_transformers_document_embedder.SentenceTransformersDocumentEmbedder
    init_parameters:
      model: intfloat/e5-base-v2
  writer:
    type: haystack.components.writers.document_writer.DocumentWriter
    init_parameters:
      document_store:
        type: haystack_integrations.document_stores.opensearch.document_store.OpenSearchDocumentStore
        init_parameters:
          embedding_dim: 768
          similarity: cosine
      policy: OVERWRITE
  DeepsetCSVRowsToDocumentsConverter:
    type: deepset_cloud_custom_nodes.converters.csv_rows_to_documents.DeepsetCSVRowsToDocumentsConverter
    init_parameters:
      content_column: content
      encoding: utf-8
connections:
  - sender: file_classifier.text/markdown
    receiver: markdown_converter.sources
  - sender: file_classifier.text/html
    receiver: html_converter.sources
  - sender: markdown_converter.documents
    receiver: splitter.documents
  - sender: html_converter.documents
    receiver: splitter.documents
  - sender: splitter.documents
    receiver: document_embedder.documents
  - sender: DeepsetCSVRowsToDocumentsConverter.documents
    receiver: document_embedder.documents
  - sender: document_embedder.documents
    receiver: writer.documents
  - sender: file_classifier.text/csv
    receiver: DeepsetCSVRowsToDocumentsConverter.sources
max_loops_allowed: 100
metadata: {}
inputs:
  files:
    - file_classifier.sources

Parameters

Init Parameters

These are the parameters you can configure in Pipeline Builder:

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
content_column	str	content	Name of the column to use as content when processing the CSV file.
encoding	str	utf-8	Encoding type to use when reading the files.

Run Method Parameters

These are the parameters you can configure for the component's run() method. This means you can pass these parameters at query time through the API, in Playground, or when running a job. For details, see Modify Pipeline Parameters at Query Time.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
sources	List[Union[str, Path, ByteStream]]		List of CSV file paths (str or Path) or ByteStream objects.
meta	Optional[Union[Dict[str, Any], List[Dict[str, Any]]]]	None	Optional metadata to attach to the documents. Can be a single dict or a list of dicts.