From 430c7778d4cf6849e563bab38d73e4bcc141b6b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jun76 <jun76.git@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:21:07 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] moved the langchain_text_splitters import inside
 default_chunk_fn

---
 voyageai/chunking.py | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/voyageai/chunking.py b/voyageai/chunking.py
index d601ae4..55c139e 100644
--- a/voyageai/chunking.py
+++ b/voyageai/chunking.py
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 from itertools import chain
 from typing import Callable, List
 
-from langchain_text_splitters import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter
-
 
 DEFAULT_CHUNK_SIZE = 2048
 SEPARATORS = [
@@ -35,6 +33,14 @@ def default_chunk_fn(chunk_size: int = DEFAULT_CHUNK_SIZE) -> Callable[[str], Li
     """ 
     Simple wrapper for LangChain RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter.
     """
+    try:
+        from langchain_text_splitters import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter
+    except ImportError:
+        raise ImportError(
+            "Please install langchain-text-splitters to use the default chunking function: "
+            "pip install langchain-text-splitters"
+        )
+
     splitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter(
         separators=SEPARATORS,
         keep_separator="end",