- Test if models support forcing tool calls via `tool_choice`. If they
do, they should support
- `"any"` to specify any tool
- the tool name as a string to force calling a particular tool
- Add `tool_choice` to signature of `BaseChatModel.bind_tools` in core
- Deprecate `tool_choice_value` in standard tests in favor of a boolean
`has_tool_choice`
Will follow up with PRs in external repos (tested in AWS and Google
already).
**Description:**
This PR fixes a minor typo in the comments within
`libs/partners/openai/langchain_openai/chat_models/base.py`. The word
"ben" has been corrected to "be" for clarity and professionalism.
**Issue:**
N/A
**Dependencies:**
None
The default model for `ChatGroq`, `"mixtral-8x7b-32768"`, is being
retired on March 20, 2025. Here we remove the default, such that model
names must be explicitly specified (being explicit is a good practice
here, and avoids the need for breaking changes down the line). This
change will be released in a minor version bump to 0.3.
This follows https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/pull/30161
(released in version 0.2.5), where we began generating warnings to this
effect.

- Support features from recent update:
https://www.anthropic.com/news/token-saving-updates (mostly adding
support for built-in tools in `bind_tools`
- Add documentation around prompt caching, token-efficient tool use, and
built-in tools.
Groq is retiring `mixtral-8x7b-32768`, which is currently the default
model for ChatGroq, on March 20. Here we emit a warning if the model is
not specified explicitly.
A version 0.3.0 will be released ahead of March 20 that removes the
default altogether.
- Support thinking blocks in core's `convert_to_openai_messages` (pass
through instead of error)
- Ignore thinking blocks in ChatOpenAI (instead of error)
- Support Anthropic-style image blocks in ChatOpenAI
---
Standard integration tests include a `supports_anthropic_inputs`
property which is currently enabled only for tests on `ChatAnthropic`.
This test enforces compatibility with message histories of the form:
```
- system message
- human message
- AI message with tool calls specified only through `tool_use` content blocks
- human message containing `tool_result` and an additional `text` block
```
It additionally checks support for Anthropic-style image inputs if
`supports_image_inputs` is enabled.
Here we change this test, such that if you enable
`supports_anthropic_inputs`:
- You support AI messages with text and `tool_use` content blocks
- You support Anthropic-style image inputs (if `supports_image_inputs`
is enabled)
- You support thinking content blocks.
That is, we add a test case for thinking content blocks, but we also
remove the requirement of handling tool results within HumanMessages
(motivated by existing agent abstractions, which should all return
ToolMessage). We move that requirement to a ChatAnthropic-specific test.
- **Description:** Fix typo in code samples for max_tokens_for_prompt.
Code blocks had singular "token" but the method has plural "tokens".
- **Issue:** N/A
- **Dependencies:** N/A
- **Twitter handle:** N/A
Structured output will currently always raise a BadRequestError when
Claude 3.7 Sonnet's `thinking` is enabled, because we rely on forced
tool use for structured output and this feature is not supported when
`thinking` is enabled.
Here we:
- Emit a warning if `with_structured_output` is called when `thinking`
is enabled.
- Raise `OutputParserException` if no tool calls are generated.
This is arguably preferable to raising an error in all cases.
```python
from langchain_anthropic import ChatAnthropic
from pydantic import BaseModel
class Person(BaseModel):
name: str
age: int
llm = ChatAnthropic(
model="claude-3-7-sonnet-latest",
max_tokens=5_000,
thinking={"type": "enabled", "budget_tokens": 2_000},
)
structured_llm = llm.with_structured_output(Person) # <-- this generates a warning
```
```python
structured_llm.invoke("Alice is 30.") # <-- works
```
```python
structured_llm.invoke("Hello!") # <-- raises OutputParserException
```
Took a "census" of models supported by init_chat_model-- of those that
return model names in response metadata, these were the only two that
had it keyed under `"model"` instead of `"model_name"`.
Resolves https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/issues/29003,
https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/issues/27264
Related: https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain-redis/issues/52
```python
from langchain.chat_models import init_chat_model
from langchain.globals import set_llm_cache
from langchain_community.cache import SQLiteCache
from pydantic import BaseModel
cache = SQLiteCache()
set_llm_cache(cache)
class Temperature(BaseModel):
value: int
city: str
llm = init_chat_model("openai:gpt-4o-mini")
structured_llm = llm.with_structured_output(Temperature)
```
```python
# 681 ms
response = structured_llm.invoke("What is the average temperature of Rome in May?")
```
```python
# 6.98 ms
response = structured_llm.invoke("What is the average temperature of Rome in May?")
```
Some o-series models will raise a 400 error for `"role": "system"`
(`o1-mini` and `o1-preview` will raise, `o1` and `o3-mini` will not).
Here we update `ChatOpenAI` to update the role to `"developer"` for all
model names matching `^o\d`.
We only make this change on the ChatOpenAI class (not BaseChatOpenAI).
For Context please check #29626
The Deepseek is using langchain_openai. The error happens that it show
`json decode error`.
I added a handler for this to give a more sensible error message which
is DeepSeek API returned empty/invalid json.
Reproducing the issue is a bit challenging as it is inconsistent,
sometimes DeepSeek returns valid data and in other times it returns
invalid data which triggers the JSON Decode Error.
This PR is an exception handling, but not an ultimate fix for the issue.
---------
Co-authored-by: Chester Curme <chester.curme@gmail.com>
**Description:** Update docstring for `reasoning_effort` argument to
specify that it applies to reasoning models only (e.g., OpenAI o1 and
o3-mini), clarifying its supported models.
**Issue:** None
**Dependencies:** None
https://docs.x.ai/docs/guides/structured-outputs
Interface appears identical to OpenAI's.
```python
from langchain.chat_models import init_chat_model
from pydantic import BaseModel
class Joke(BaseModel):
setup: str
punchline: str
llm = init_chat_model("xai:grok-2").with_structured_output(
Joke, method="json_schema"
)
llm.invoke("Tell me a joke about cats.")
```