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Java: Bug: The constructor DefaultSemanticTextMemory(MemoryStore, EmbeddingGeneration<String>) refers to the missing type MemoryStore

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start with the pom.xml dependencies and reproduce the compilation error from the Java snippet. Compare the semantickernel-api 1.1.5 dependency with semantickernel-core 0.2.13-alpha and the DefaultSemanticTextMemory constructor that refers to MemoryStore. Done means the sample compiles without the missing-type error using a consistent dependency setup.

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Description

bug java triage

Describe the bug
I have tried to use AzureAISearch for vector DB, but there is no MemoryStore class across jar files. I believe semantickernel-core-0.2.6-alpha.jar should contain MemoryStore class, but there is no such file.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. configure pom.xml with following dependencies
  2. create following Java code

Expected behavior
Solve missing type MemoryStore error.

Platform

  • OS: Windows
  • IDE: VS Code
  • Language: Java
  • Source: maven and following Java code
        OpenAIAsyncClient client = new OpenAIClientBuilder()
                .endpoint(endpoint)
                .credential(new AzureKeyCredential(secretKey))
                .buildAsyncClient();
        OpenAITextEmbeddingGeneration embedding = new OpenAITextEmbeddingGeneration(client, "text-embedding-ada-002");
        DefaultSemanticTextMemory memory = new DefaultSemanticTextMemory(aisearchMemory, embedding);

Additional context
Here is pom.xml dependencies.

  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
      <artifactId>semantickernel-api</artifactId>
      <version>1.1.5</version>
    </dependency>
    <!--
    https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.microsoft.semantic-kernel/semantickernel-aiservices-openai -->
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
      <artifactId>semantickernel-aiservices-openai</artifactId>
      <version>1.1.5</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
      <artifactId>semantickernel-core</artifactId>
      <version>0.2.13-alpha</version>
      <scope>runtime</scope>
      <!-- TODO: scope should be runtime, but VolatileMemoryStore is an issue -->
      <!-- <scope>runtime</scope> -->
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
      <artifactId>semantickernel-plugin-core</artifactId>
      <version>0.2.13-alpha</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
      <artifactId>azure-ai-openai</artifactId>
      <version>1.0.0-beta.8</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
      <version>2.20.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
      <version>2.20.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
      <artifactId>log4j-slf4j2-impl</artifactId>
      <version>2.20.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
      <artifactId>semantickernel-planners</artifactId>
      <version>0.2.13-alpha</version>
      <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel</groupId>
      <artifactId>semantickernel-gpt3-tokenizer</artifactId>
      <version>0.2.13-alpha</version>
      <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
      <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
      <version>2.17.2</version>
      <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
      <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
      <version>2.17.2</version>
      <scope>compile</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.microsoft.semantic-kernel.connectors</groupId>
      <artifactId>semantickernel-connectors</artifactId>
      <version>0.2.7-alpha</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>redis.clients</groupId>
      <artifactId>jedis</artifactId>
      <version>5.1.0</version>
      <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>junit</groupId>
      <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
      <version>4.11</version>
      <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
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