* **Description**: add `None` type for `file_path` along with `str` and
`List[str]` types.
* `file_path`/`filename` arguments in `get_elements_from_api()` and
`partition()` can be `None`, however, there's no `None` type hint for
`file_path` in `UnstructuredAPIFileLoader` and `UnstructuredFileLoader`
currently.
* calling the function with `file_path=None` is no problem, but my IDE
annoys me lol.
* **Issue**: N/A
* **Dependencies**: N/A
Co-authored-by: Bagatur <22008038+baskaryan@users.noreply.github.com>
So this arose from the
https://github.com/langchain-ai/langchain/pull/18397 problem of document
loaders not supporting `pathlib.Path`.
This pull request provides more uniform support for Path as an argument.
The core ideas for this upgrade:
- if there is a local file path used as an argument, it should be
supported as `pathlib.Path`
- if there are some external calls that may or may not support Pathlib,
the argument is immidiately converted to `str`
- if there `self.file_path` is used in a way that it allows for it to
stay pathlib without conversion, is is only converted for the metadata.
Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/mwmajewsk
- **Description:** Updated `_get_elements()` function of
`UnstructuredFileLoader `class to check if the argument self.file_path
is a file or list of files. If it is a list of files then it iterates
over the list of file paths, calls the partition function for each one,
and appends the results to the elements list. If self.file_path is not a
list, it calls the partition function as before.
- **Issue:** Fixed#15607,
- **Dependencies:** NA
- **Twitter handle:** NA
Co-authored-by: H161961 <Raunak.Raunak@Honeywell.com>
