Add RAG service: PDF ingestion, Chroma DB indexing, and FastAPI query endpoint by NaveenBuidl · Pull Request #2 · NaveenBuidl/evalens

NaveenBuidl · 2026-04-08T06:52:51Z

Motivation

Provide a minimal Retriever-Augmented Generation (RAG) service to index a directory of PDFs and serve question answering over the indexed content.
Use ChromaDB for vector storage and sentence-transformers for embeddings with optional generation via the groq API when GROQ_API_KEY is present.
Make configuration easy via a config.yaml and environment variable sample in .env.example.

Description

Add app/config.py which defines a Settings dataclass and load_settings() to read config.yaml and GROQ_API_KEY from the environment.
Implement app/rag.py containing RAGEngine which handles PDF ingestion (via pymupdf/fitz), text chunking, indexing into a Chroma collection, nearest-neighbor retrieval, and optional answer generation through the groq client.
Add app/main.py which exposes a FastAPI app with startup ingestion and a /query POST endpoint that accepts a query and returns retrieval results and generated answers.
Add top-level config.yaml, .env.example with GROQ_API_KEY, and requirements.txt listing runtime dependencies including fastapi, uvicorn, pymupdf, chromadb, sentence-transformers, groq, python-dotenv, and pyyaml.
Implement defensive behavior such that ingestion skips when the corpus is missing or already indexed, and the service returns a helpful message if GROQ_API_KEY is not set.

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Pull request overview

Adds a minimal RAG microservice that ingests a PDF corpus into ChromaDB and serves retrieval (and optional Groq-generated answers) via a FastAPI endpoint, configured through config.yaml + environment variables.

Changes:

Introduces RAGEngine for PDF ingestion, chunking, Chroma indexing, retrieval, and optional Groq chat completions.
Adds a FastAPI app that ingests on startup and exposes a /query POST endpoint.
Adds initial configuration (config.yaml, .env.example) and runtime dependencies (requirements.txt).

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File	Description
requirements.txt	Adds runtime dependencies for FastAPI, PDF parsing, embeddings, and Chroma storage.
config.yaml	Provides initial RAG settings (corpus path, chunking, retrieval, models, Chroma persistence).
app/config.py	Loads YAML config and reads `GROQ_API_KEY` from environment into a Settings dataclass.
app/rag.py	Implements ingestion/indexing and query + optional generation workflow.
app/main.py	Exposes FastAPI app with startup ingestion and `/query` endpoint.
.env.example	Documents `GROQ_API_KEY` environment variable.

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Copilot · 2026-04-08T06:56:02Z

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+corpus_path: "D:/Evalens/corpus/intercom_external/raw_pdfs"


config.yaml hard-codes an absolute Windows path for corpus_path. This makes the service non-portable and will fail on other machines/OSes; consider using a repo-relative default (e.g., ./corpus) and/or leaving this as a placeholder value documented in README/.env instead of committing a machine-specific path.

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corpus_path: "D:/Evalens/corpus/intercom_external/raw_pdfs"

corpus_path: "./corpus"

Copilot · 2026-04-08T06:56:03Z

+    return Settings(
+        corpus_path=cfg.get("corpus_path", "D:/Evalens/corpus/intercom_external/raw_pdfs"),
+        chunk_size=int(cfg.get("chunk_size", 1000)),
+        chunk_overlap=int(cfg.get("chunk_overlap", 150)),
+        retrieval_k=int(cfg.get("retrieval_k", 4)),
+        model=cfg.get("model", "llama-3.1-8b-instant"),
+        embedding_model=cfg.get("embedding_model", "sentence-transformers/all-MiniLM-L6-v2"),
+        chroma_path=cfg.get("chroma_path", ".chroma"),
+        collection_name=cfg.get("collection_name", "intercom_pdfs"),


load_settings() defaults corpus_path to an absolute Windows path. Even if config.yaml is changed later, this fallback will still break portability when the key is missing; prefer a relative default (or require corpus_path in config) and optionally support overriding via an environment variable.

Copilot · 2026-04-08T06:56:03Z

+    def ingest(self) -> dict[str, Any]:
+        corpus = Path(self.settings.corpus_path)
+        if not corpus.exists():
+            raise FileNotFoundError(f"Corpus folder not found: {corpus}")
+
+        pdf_paths = sorted(corpus.glob("*.pdf"))
+        if not pdf_paths:
+            return {"indexed_files": 0, "indexed_chunks": 0}


ingest() raises FileNotFoundError when the corpus directory is missing, which will crash the FastAPI startup hook. The PR description mentions ingestion should skip when the corpus is missing; consider returning a structured "skipped" result (or logging and continuing) instead of raising here.

Copilot · 2026-04-08T06:56:03Z

+@app.on_event("startup")
+def startup_event() -> None:
+    rag.ingest()
+


startup_event() calls rag.ingest() without handling errors. As written, a missing corpus directory (or any ingestion error) will prevent the app from starting; consider catching expected exceptions (e.g., missing corpus) and logging them so /query can still operate (or at least fail with a clear startup message).

Copilot · 2026-04-08T06:56:03Z

+    except Exception as e:  # minimal tracer-bullet error handling
+        raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail=str(e)) from e


The blanket 500 handler returns detail=str(e) to clients. This can leak internal information such as local file paths and library error messages; prefer returning a generic message for 500s and logging the exception server-side.

Copilot · 2026-04-08T06:56:04Z

+@app.on_event("startup")
+def startup_event() -> None:
+    rag.ingest()


FastAPI's @app.on_event("startup") hook is deprecated in favor of the lifespan interface in newer FastAPI versions. Using lifespan avoids deprecation warnings and is the forward-compatible way to run ingestion on startup.

Copilot · 2026-04-08T06:56:04Z

+        ids: list[str] = []
+        docs: list[str] = []
+        metas: list[dict[str, Any]] = []
+
+        for pdf_path in pdf_paths:
+            with fitz.open(pdf_path) as pdf_doc:
+                full_text = "\n".join(page.get_text("text") for page in pdf_doc)
+            chunks = self._chunk_text(
+                full_text,
+                self.settings.chunk_size,
+                self.settings.chunk_overlap,
+            )
+            for idx, chunk in enumerate(chunks):
+                ids.append(f"{pdf_path.stem}-{idx}")
+                docs.append(chunk)
+                metas.append({"source": str(pdf_path), "chunk_index": idx})
+
+        if ids:
+            self._collection.add(ids=ids, documents=docs, metadatas=metas)
+


ingest() accumulates all chunk ids/documents/metadata for the entire corpus in memory before calling collection.add(). For large PDF sets this can create high peak memory usage (full_text + chunks + lists). Consider adding in batches (e.g., per-PDF or fixed-size batches) to cap memory and make ingestion more robust.

Copilot · 2026-04-08T06:56:04Z

+        results = self._collection.query(
+            query_texts=[user_query],
+            n_results=self.settings.retrieval_k,
+            include=["documents", "metadatas", "distances"],


collection.query() requests "distances" in include=..., but the code never uses distances. Omitting it will reduce data transfer/processing, especially when retrieval_k is larger.

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include=["documents", "metadatas", "distances"],

include=["documents", "metadatas"],

Switch PDF extraction to PyMuPDF for ingestion

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		corpus_path: "D:/Evalens/corpus/intercom_external/raw_pdfs"

	corpus_path: "D:/Evalens/corpus/intercom_external/raw_pdfs"
	corpus_path: "./corpus"

		except Exception as e: # minimal tracer-bullet error handling
		raise HTTPException(status_code=500, detail=str(e)) from e

	include=["documents", "metadatas", "distances"],
	include=["documents", "metadatas"],

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