question = inputs["question"]
        get_chat_history = self.get_chat_history or _get_chat_history
        chat_history_str = get_chat_history(inputs["chat_history"])
        if chat_history_str:
            callbacks = _run_manager.get_child()
            new_question = await self.question_generator.arun(
                question=question, chat_history=chat_history_str, callbacks=callbacks
            )
        else:
            new_question = question
        docs = await self._aget_docs(new_question, inputs)
        new_inputs = inputs.copy()
        new_inputs["question"] = new_question
        new_inputs["chat_history"] = chat_history_str
        answer = await self.combine_docs_chain.arun(
            input_documents=docs, callbacks=_run_manager.get_child(), **new_inputs
        )
        output: Dict[str, Any] = {self.output_key: answer}
        if self.return_source_documents:
            output["source_documents"] = docs
        if self.return_generated_question:
            output["generated_question"] = new_question
        return output
    def save(self, file_path: Union[Path, str]) -> None:
        if self.get_chat_history:
            raise ValueError("Chain not savable when `get_chat_history` is not None.")
        super().save(file_path)
[docs]class ConversationalRetrievalChain(BaseConversationalRetrievalChain):
    """Chain for chatting with an index."""
    retriever: BaseRetriever
    """Index to connect to."""
    max_tokens_limit: Optional[int] = None
    """If set, restricts the docs to return from store based on tokens, enforced only
    for StuffDocumentChain"""
    def _reduce_tokens_below_limit(self, docs: List[Document]) -> List[Document]:
        num_docs = len(docs)
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