DataStax Astra DB is a serverless AI-ready database built on Apache Cassandra® and made conveniently availablev through an easy-to-use JSON API.
This notebook goes over how to use Astra DB to store chat message history.

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Setup

To run this notebook you need a running Astra DB. Get the connection secrets on your Astra dashboard:
  • the API Endpoint looks like https://01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef-us-east1.apps.astra.datastax.com;
  • the Database Token looks like AstraCS:aBcD0123....
!pip install "langchain-astradb>=0.6,<0.7"

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Set up the database connection parameters and secrets

import getpass

ASTRA_DB_API_ENDPOINT = input("ASTRA_DB_API_ENDPOINT = ")
ASTRA_DB_APPLICATION_TOKEN = getpass.getpass("ASTRA_DB_APPLICATION_TOKEN = ")

ASTRA_DB_API_ENDPOINT =  https://01234567-89ab-cdef-0123-456789abcdef-us-east1.apps.astra.datastax.com
ASTRA_DB_APPLICATION_TOKEN =  ········

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Example

from langchain_astradb import AstraDBChatMessageHistory

message_history = AstraDBChatMessageHistory(
    session_id="test-session",
    api_endpoint=ASTRA_DB_API_ENDPOINT,
    token=ASTRA_DB_APPLICATION_TOKEN,
)

message_history.add_user_message("hi!")

message_history.add_ai_message("hello, how are you?")
API Reference: AstraDBChatMessageHistory 
message_history.messages

[HumanMessage(content='hi!', additional_kwargs={}, response_metadata={}),
 AIMessage(content='hello, how are you?', additional_kwargs={}, response_metadata={})]