From 72cf9578f1aa31a6ebd451021677e14207cbb41f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ming <tslmy@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 09:00:33 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that one needs to explicitly pass custom
`persist_dir` to `storage_context.persist` (#9694)
---
docs/getting_started/starter_example.md | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/getting_started/starter_example.md b/docs/getting_started/starter_example.md
index 656421d1c9..ccae8c89ba 100644
--- a/docs/getting_started/starter_example.md
+++ b/docs/getting_started/starter_example.md
@@ -95,15 +95,16 @@ from llama_index import (
)
# check if storage already exists
-if not os.path.exists("./storage"):
+PERSIST_DIR = "./storage"
+if not os.path.exists(PERSIST_DIR):
# load the documents and create the index
documents = SimpleDirectoryReader("data").load_data()
index = VectorStoreIndex.from_documents(documents)
# store it for later
- index.storage_context.persist()
+ index.storage_context.persist(persist_dir=PERSIST_DIR)
else:
# load the existing index
- storage_context = StorageContext.from_defaults(persist_dir="./storage")
+ storage_context = StorageContext.from_defaults(persist_dir=PERSIST_DIR)
index = load_index_from_storage(storage_context)
# either way we can now query the index
--
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