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Retrieving Data

When a query meets all your and the retrievers requirements (i.e. extra generated context, embeddings), documents can then be retrieved by a retriever.

A retriever implements the Retrieve<S> trait.

The `Retrieve<S>` trait

The Retrieve<S> trait is defined as follows:

pub trait Retrieve<S: SearchStrategy>: Send + Sync {
    async fn retrieve(
        &self,
        search_strategy: &S,
        query: Query<states::Pending>,
    ) -> Result<Query<states::Retrieved>>;
}

The retriever retrieves documents for the given SearchStrategy. Retrieved documents are then added to the query with query.retrieved_documents(documents). Any additional configuration is set on the SearchStrategy. The trait is also implemented for closures, enabling full customization where needed.

Built in retrievers

Name	Description	Feature Flag
Qdrant	Implements both `Retrieve<SimilaritySingleEmbedding>` and `Retrieve<HybridSearch>`.	qdrant
LanceDB	Implements `Retrieve<SimilaritySingleEmbedding>`.	lancedb