@root_validator()
    def validate_environment(cls, values: Dict) -> Dict:
        """Validate that api key and python package exists in environment."""
        huggingfacehub_api_token = get_from_dict_or_env(
            values, "huggingfacehub_api_token", "HUGGINGFACEHUB_API_TOKEN"
        )
        try:
            from huggingface_hub.inference_api import InferenceApi
            repo_id = values["repo_id"]
            if not repo_id.startswith("sentence-transformers"):
                raise ValueError(
                    "Currently only 'sentence-transformers' embedding models "
                    f"are supported. Got invalid 'repo_id' {repo_id}."
                )
            client = InferenceApi(
                repo_id=repo_id,
                token=huggingfacehub_api_token,
                task=values.get("task"),
            )
            if client.task not in VALID_TASKS:
                raise ValueError(
                    f"Got invalid task {client.task}, "
                    f"currently only {VALID_TASKS} are supported"
                )
            values["client"] = client
        except ImportError:
            raise ImportError(
                "Could not import huggingface_hub python package. "
                "Please install it with `pip install huggingface_hub`."
            )
        return values
[docs]    def embed_documents(self, texts: List[str]) -> List[List[float]]:
        """Call out to HuggingFaceHub's embedding endpoint for embedding search docs.
        Args:
            texts: The list of texts to embed.
        Returns:
            List of embeddings, one for each text.
        """
        # replace newlines, which can negatively affect performance.
        texts = [text.replace("\n", " ") for text in texts]