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langchain/libs/core/langchain_core/messages
Aaron V dcfaae85d2 Core: Fix __add__ for concatting two BaseMessageChunk's (#29531)
Description:

The change allows you to use the overloaded `+` operator correctly when
`+`ing two BaseMessageChunk subclasses. Without this you *must*
instantiate a subclass for it to work.

Which feels... wrong. Base classes should be decoupled from sub classes
and should have in no way a dependency on them.

Issue:

You can't `+` a BaseMessageChunk with a BaseMessageChunk

e.g. this will explode

```py
from langchain_core.outputs import (
    ChatGenerationChunk,
)
from langchain_core.messages import BaseMessageChunk


chunk1 = ChatGenerationChunk(
    message=BaseMessageChunk(
        type="customChunk",
        content="HI",
    ),
)

chunk2 = ChatGenerationChunk(
    message=BaseMessageChunk(
        type="customChunk",
        content="HI",
    ),
)

# this will throw
new_chunk = chunk1 + chunk2
```

In case anyone ran into this issue themselves, it's probably best to use
the AIMessageChunk:

a la 

```py
from langchain_core.outputs import (
    ChatGenerationChunk,
)
from langchain_core.messages import AIMessageChunk


chunk1 = ChatGenerationChunk(
    message=AIMessageChunk(
        content="HI",
    ),
)

chunk2 = ChatGenerationChunk(
    message=AIMessageChunk(
        content="HI",
    ),
)

# No explosion!
new_chunk = chunk1 + chunk2
```

Dependencies:

None!

Twitter handle: 
`aaron_vogler`

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Co-authored-by: Erick Friis <erick@langchain.dev>
2025-02-08 00:43:36 +00:00
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