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Mason Daugherty d74e537dac fix(langchain-classic): align arank_fusion string normalization with rank_fusion in EnsembleRetriever (#38051)
Closes #37736

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`EnsembleRetriever` normalizes retriever outputs to `Document` objects
in both `rank_fusion` (sync) and `arank_fusion` (async), but the two
methods used different conditions:

- `rank_fusion` wraps only bare strings: `isinstance(doc, str)`
- `arank_fusion` wrapped anything that isn't a `Document`: `not
isinstance(doc, Document)`

If a retriever returns a non-string, non-`Document` value through the
async path, `arank_fusion` would try to construct
`Document(page_content=<non-string>)` and Pydantic raises a
`ValidationError`. The sync path handles the same input without crashing
— the behavior is inconsistent.

The fix is a one-line change in `arank_fusion` to use `isinstance(doc,
str)`, matching the sync path exactly.

Three tests were added to `test_ensemble.py`:

- `test_rank_fusion_bare_strings` — sync path wraps bare strings into
Documents
- `test_arank_fusion_bare_strings` — async path wraps bare strings into
Documents
- `test_arank_fusion_matches_rank_fusion` — sync and async return
identical results for normal Document input

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This continues the work from #37737 by @AliMuhammadAslam (credited as
co-author), rebased onto `master` with the type-check lint failure
resolved. Supersedes that PR.

Co-authored-by: AliMuhammadAslam <aaalimohdaslam@gmail.com>
2026-06-10 21:33:13 -04:00
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