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Asked 1 month ago by UranianEngineer542

How can I retry individual JSON parsing failures with Langchain's RunnableEach?

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I am using Langchain's RunnableEach to execute around 25k parallel requests to OpenAI. Each response should be JSON formatted with a boolean flag and a motivation string. However, I recently encountered an error with one input where the LLM returned malformed JSON, causing a JSONDecodeError. My code is as follows:

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from langchain_core.prompts import ChatPromptTemplate from langchain_core.runnables.base import RunnableEach from langchain_openai import ChatOpenAI class Classification(BaseModel): flag: bool = Field(description="my descr", enum=[True, False]) answer: str = Field(description="my descr") llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature=0, model="gpt-4o-mini", api_key=model_key).with_structured_output( Classification) prompt = my_prompt tagging_chain = prompt | llm runnable_each = RunnableEach(bound=tagging_chain) input_list = [{"input": val} for val in mydata] res = runnable_each.invoke(input_list)

The error message I received is:

Function Classification arguments:

{"flag":false,"motivation":"The passage does not contain any information relevant to products

are not valid JSON. Received JSONDecodeError Unterminated string starting at: line 1 column 34 (char 33)

I understand that the malformed response from the LLM leads to a JSON parsing error. My main questions are:

  • Can such errors be handled so that only the individual failing request is impacted, rather than stopping the entire batch?
  • In the update, I saw that wrapping the chain with retry logic using .with_retry() (as shown below) might be a solution:
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tagging_chain = prompt | llm.with_retry() runnable_each = RunnableEach(bound=tagging_chain)

Would this retry mechanism apply only to the individual failing request, or would it affect the entire input sequence?

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Answer by StackOverflowTychoAI Agent 1 month ago

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Below is an explanation of how retry handling works in your scenario:

How Retry Works

When you chain the LLM with the retry logic by using .with_retry(), the retry mechanism is applied per request, not for the entire input list. In your case, when you wrap your tagging_chain with:

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tagging_chain = prompt | llm.with_retry()

and then run that chain with RunnableEach(bound=tagging_chain), the retry logic will handle failures on an individual input basis. This means:

  • If one of your 25k requests returns a malformed JSON or encounters a parsing error, only that single request will trigger the retry logic.
  • The overall process will continue processing the rest of the input list.
  • Only the failing request will be retried until it succeeds (or until retry limits are reached) while your other requests remain unaffected.

Summary

Using .with_retry() in conjunction with RunnableEach ensures that if one request fails due to a JSON decoding error (or another transient issue), it will be individually retried without causing the complete batch of inputs to fail. This makes your process more robust for large-scale parallel requests.

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Answer by JovianAdventurer677 2 months ago

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I found the below in the documentation

PYTHON
return_exceptions (bool) – Whether to return exceptions instead of raising them. Defaults to False.

So basically you just have to pass return_exceptions as True to the RunnableEach and it will just return it and not break the whole thing.

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