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TypeError : object of type ndarray is not JSON serializable
If you try to send a numpy array as a server response via Flask, you get this error.
return {"representation": text_vec}
This can be resolved by converting the numpy array into a list.
return {"representation": text_vec.tolist(), "plain_text": plain_text}
I used this SO for reference : https://stackoverflow.com/a/51685601/2767642
I also read in this (link)[https://github.com/numpy/numpy/issues/10494] that this might not always work but I havent faced any issues yet in our use case.
environment variables not being loaded.
If you are running the app in a way where the environment variables arent set. you might want to import dot_env and run load_dotenv() at the outset of your program, this will load the environment variables mentioned in development.env into your environment