Implement and Debug Gradio UI Enhancements

📅 2025-05-11 — Session: Implement and Debug Gradio UI Enhancements

🕒 00:00–00:30
🏷️ Labels: Gradio, Python, Debugging, Metadata, Semantic Search
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal

The session aimed to enhance and debug the Semantic Search UI using Gradio and ensure proper metadata handling in Python applications.

Key Activities

• Implemented the get_all_tags() function to retrieve unique, sorted tags from ChromaDB, improving the Semantic Search UI.
• Fixed parameter name mismatches in Gradio’s API and resolved a TypeError in the TabbedInterface.
• Corrected initialization issues in Gradio’s TabbedInterface and troubleshooted search button functionality.
• Debugged the search_handler() function to handle empty query strings effectively.
• Enhanced the memory.py setup to align with working notebook logic, focusing on embedding function setup.
• Cleaned up metadata fields stored as stringified lists and validated JSON structure to ensure data integrity.

Achievements

• Successfully implemented and debugged key functionalities in the Gradio UI, improving the overall user experience.
• Ensured metadata fields are correctly formatted and validated, enhancing data integrity.

Pending Tasks

• Further testing of the Gradio UI to ensure all functionalities work seamlessly.
• Continuous validation of metadata fields for any new data ingested.