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## Description
When the `MultiQueryRetriever` is used to get the list of documents
relevant according to a query, inside a vector store, and at least one
of these contain metadata with nested dictionaries, a `TypeError:
unhashable type: 'dict'` exception is thrown.
This is caused by the `unique_union` function which, to guarantee the
uniqueness of the returned documents, tries, unsuccessfully, to hash the
nested dictionaries and use them as a part of key.
```python
unique_documents_dict = {
(doc.page_content, tuple(sorted(doc.metadata.items()))): doc
for doc in documents
}
```
## Issue
#9872 (MultiQueryRetriever (get_relevant_documents) raises TypeError:
unhashable type: 'dict' with dic metadata)
## Solution
A possible solution is to dump the metadata dict to a string and use it
as a part of hashed key.
```python
unique_documents_dict = {
(doc.page_content, json.dumps(doc.metadata, sort_keys=True)): doc
for doc in documents
}
```
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Co-authored-by: Bagatur <baskaryan@gmail.com>