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Pythonlangchain-coremessagesblock_translatorsopenaiconvert_to_openai_data_block

Function●Since v1.0

convert_to_openai_data_block

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convert_to_openai_data_block(
  block: dict[str, Any],
  api: Literal['chat/completions', 'responses']

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Parameters

Name	Type	Description
`block`*	`dict[str, Any]`
`api`	`Literal['chat/completions', 'responses']`	Default:`'chat/completions'`

Format standard data content block to format expected by OpenAI.

"Standard data content block" can include old-style LangChain v0 blocks (URLContentBlock, Base64ContentBlock, IDContentBlock) or new ones.

The content block to convert.

The OpenAI API being targeted. Either "chat/completions" or "responses".