Transform text into vectors by calling Model Studio APIs

import dashscope
from dashscope import TextEmbedding
from dashvector import Client
from typing import List, Union


dashscope.api_key = '{your-dashscope-api-key}'


# Call the DashScope general-purpose text embedding model to transform text into vectors
def generate_embeddings(texts: Union[List[str], str], text_type: str = 'document'):
    rsp = TextEmbedding.call(
        model=TextEmbedding.Models.text_embedding_v2,
        input=texts,
        text_type=text_type
    )
    embeddings = [record['embedding'] for record in rsp.output['embeddings']]
    return embeddings if isinstance(texts, list) else embeddings[0]


# Create a DashVector client
client = Client(
    api_key='{your-dashvector-api-key}',
    endpoint='{your-dashvector-cluster-endpoint}'
)

# Create a DashVector collection
rsp = client.create('dashscope-text-embedding', 1536)
assert rsp
collection = client.get('dashscope-text-embedding')
assert collection

# Insert vectors into DashVector
collection.insert(
    ('ID1', generate_embeddings('Alibaba Cloud Vector Retrieval Service (DashVector) is one of the best-performing and most cost-effective vector databases'))
)

# Retrieve vectors
docs = collection.query(
    generate_embeddings('The best vector database', 'query')
)
print(docs)