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GoogleAIGeminiChatGenerator

Complete chats using Gemini models through Google AI Studio.

Deprecation Notice

GoogleAIGeminiChatGenerator will be deprecated after August 2025. Switch to the new GoogleGenAIChatGenerator instead.

Key Features

  • Chat completion using Gemini models through Google AI Studio
  • Streaming support for real-time token-by-token responses
  • Tool/function calling support
  • Configurable safety settings for content filtering
  • Configurable generation parameters such as temperature and top_p

Configuration

  1. Drag the GoogleAIGeminiChatGenerator component onto the canvas from the Component Library.
  2. Click on the component to open the configuration panel.
  3. On the General tab:
    1. Enter your Google AI Studio API key. You need to connect Haystack Platform to your Google AI Studio account first. For details, see Use Google Gemini Models.
    2. Select a model. For available models, see Google documentation.
  4. Go to the Advanced tab to configure generation settings, safety settings, tools, and streaming.

Connections

GoogleAIGeminiChatGenerator accepts a list of ChatMessage objects through its messages input and outputs generated responses as replies (a list of ChatMessage instances).

Connect ChatPromptBuilder's prompt output to this component's messages input. Connect the replies output to DeepsetAnswerBuilder through OutputAdapter.

Source Code

To check this component's source code, open gemini.py in the Haystack Core Integrations repository.

Usage Examples

Basic Configuration

  GoogleAIGeminiChatGenerator:
type: haystack_integrations.components.generators.google_ai.chat.gemini.GoogleAIGeminiChatGenerator
init_parameters:
api_key:
type: env_var
env_vars:
- GOOGLE_API_KEY
strict: false
model: gemini-1.5-flash

Using the Component in a Pipeline

This is an example RAG pipeline with GoogleAIGeminiChatGenerator and DeepsetAnswerBuilder:

components:
bm25_retriever: # Selects the most similar documents from the document store
type: haystack_integrations.components.retrievers.opensearch.bm25_retriever.OpenSearchBM25Retriever
init_parameters:
document_store:
type: haystack_integrations.document_stores.opensearch.document_store.OpenSearchDocumentStore
init_parameters:
hosts:
index: 'Standard-Index-English'
max_chunk_bytes: 104857600
embedding_dim: 768
return_embedding: false
method:
mappings:
settings:
create_index: true
http_auth:
use_ssl:
verify_certs:
timeout:
top_k: 20 # The number of results to return
fuzziness: 0

query_embedder:
type: deepset_cloud_custom_nodes.embedders.nvidia.text_embedder.DeepsetNvidiaTextEmbedder
init_parameters:
normalize_embeddings: true
model: intfloat/e5-base-v2

embedding_retriever: # Selects the most similar documents from the document store
type: haystack_integrations.components.retrievers.opensearch.embedding_retriever.OpenSearchEmbeddingRetriever
init_parameters:
document_store:
type: haystack_integrations.document_stores.opensearch.document_store.OpenSearchDocumentStore
init_parameters:
hosts:
index: 'Standard-Index-English'
max_chunk_bytes: 104857600
embedding_dim: 768
return_embedding: false
method:
mappings:
settings:
create_index: true
http_auth:
use_ssl:
verify_certs:
timeout:
top_k: 20 # The number of results to return

document_joiner:
type: haystack.components.joiners.document_joiner.DocumentJoiner
init_parameters:
join_mode: concatenate

ranker:
type: deepset_cloud_custom_nodes.rankers.nvidia.ranker.DeepsetNvidiaRanker
init_parameters:
model: intfloat/simlm-msmarco-reranker
top_k: 8

meta_field_grouping_ranker:
type: haystack.components.rankers.meta_field_grouping_ranker.MetaFieldGroupingRanker
init_parameters:
group_by: file_id
subgroup_by:
sort_docs_by: split_id

answer_builder:
type: deepset_cloud_custom_nodes.augmenters.deepset_answer_builder.DeepsetAnswerBuilder
init_parameters:
reference_pattern: acm

ChatPromptBuilder:
type: haystack.components.builders.chat_prompt_builder.ChatPromptBuilder
init_parameters:
template:
- _content:
- text: "You are a helpful assistant answering the user's questions based on the provided documents.\nIf the answer is not in the documents, rely on the web_search tool to find information.\nDo not use your own knowledge.\n"
_role: system
- _content:
- text: "Provided documents:\n{% for document in documents %}\nDocument [{{ loop.index }}] :\n{{ document.content }}\n{% endfor %}\n\nQuestion: {{ query }}\n"
_role: user
required_variables:
variables:
OutputAdapter:
type: haystack.components.converters.output_adapter.OutputAdapter
init_parameters:
template: '{{ replies[0] }}'
output_type: List[str]
custom_filters:
unsafe: false

GoogleAIGeminiChatGenerator:
type: haystack_integrations.components.generators.google_ai.chat.gemini.GoogleAIGeminiChatGenerator
init_parameters:
api_key:
type: env_var
env_vars:
- GOOGLE_API_KEY
strict: false
model: gemini-1.5-flash
generation_config:
safety_settings:
tools:
tool_config:
streaming_callback:

connections: # Defines how the components are connected
- sender: bm25_retriever.documents
receiver: document_joiner.documents
- sender: query_embedder.embedding
receiver: embedding_retriever.query_embedding
- sender: embedding_retriever.documents
receiver: document_joiner.documents
- sender: document_joiner.documents
receiver: ranker.documents
- sender: ranker.documents
receiver: meta_field_grouping_ranker.documents
- sender: meta_field_grouping_ranker.documents
receiver: answer_builder.documents
- sender: meta_field_grouping_ranker.documents
receiver: ChatPromptBuilder.documents
- sender: OutputAdapter.output
receiver: answer_builder.replies
- sender: ChatPromptBuilder.prompt
receiver: GoogleAIGeminiChatGenerator.messages
- sender: GoogleAIGeminiChatGenerator.replies
receiver: OutputAdapter.replies

inputs: # Define the inputs for your pipeline
query: # These components will receive the query as input
- "bm25_retriever.query"
- "query_embedder.text"
- "ranker.query"
- "answer_builder.query"
- "ChatPromptBuilder.query"
filters: # These components will receive a potential query filter as input
- "bm25_retriever.filters"
- "embedding_retriever.filters"

outputs: # Defines the output of your pipeline
documents: "meta_field_grouping_ranker.documents" # The output of the pipeline is the retrieved documents
answers: "answer_builder.answers" # The output of the pipeline is the generated answers

max_runs_per_component: 100

metadata: {}

Parameters

Inputs

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
messagesList[ChatMessage]A list of ChatMessage instances representing the input messages.
streaming_callbackOptional[StreamingCallbackT]NoneA callback function called when a new token is received from the stream.
toolsOptional[List[Tool]]NoneA list of tools for which the model can prepare calls.

Outputs

ParameterTypeDescription
repliesList[ChatMessage]A list containing the generated responses as ChatMessage instances.

Init Parameters

These are the parameters you can configure in Pipeline Builder:

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
api_keySecretSecret.from_env_var('GOOGLE_API_KEY')Google AI Studio API key. To get a key, see Google AI Studio.
modelstrgemini-1.5-flashName of the model to use. For available models, see Google documentation.
generation_configOptional[Union[GenerationConfig, Dict[str, Any]]]NoneThe generation configuration to use. This can be a GenerationConfig object or a dictionary of parameters. For available parameters, see the API reference.
safety_settingsOptional[Dict[HarmCategory, HarmBlockThreshold]]NoneThe safety settings to use. A dictionary with HarmCategory as keys and HarmBlockThreshold as values. For more information, see the API reference.
toolsOptional[List[Tool]]NoneA list of tools for which the model can prepare calls.
tool_configOptional[content_types.ToolConfigDict]NoneThe tool config to use. See the documentation for ToolConfig.
streaming_callbackOptional[StreamingCallbackT]NoneA callback function called when a new token is received from the stream. The callback function accepts StreamingChunk as an argument.

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.

ParameterTypeDefaultDescription
messagesList[ChatMessage]A list of ChatMessage instances representing the input messages.
streaming_callbackOptional[StreamingCallbackT]NoneA callback function called when a new token is received from the stream.
toolsOptional[List[Tool]]NoneA list of tools for which the model can prepare calls.