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    Pythonlangchain-coreretrieversBaseRetrieverainvoke
    Method●Since v0.1

    ainvoke

    Asynchronously invoke the retriever to get relevant documents.

    Main entry point for asynchronous retriever invocations.

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    ainvoke(
      self,
      input: str,
      config: RunnableConfig | None = None,
      **kwargs: Any = {}
    ) -> list[Document]

    Examples:

    await retriever.ainvoke("query")

    Parameters

    NameTypeDescription
    input*str

    The query string.

    configRunnableConfig | None
    Default:None

    Configuration for the retriever.

    **kwargsAny
    Default:{}

    Additional arguments to pass to the retriever.

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