FunctionDefinition Class

The definition of a caller-specified function that chat completions may invoke in response to matching user input.

All required parameters must be populated in order to send to server.

Inheritance

azure.ai.inference._model_base.Model

FunctionDefinition

Constructor

FunctionDefinition(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any)

Variables

Name	Description
name	str The name of the function to be called. Required.
description	str A description of what the function does. The model will use this description when selecting the function and interpreting its parameters.
parameters	any The parameters the function accepts, described as a JSON Schema object.

Methods

as_dict	Return a dict that can be JSONify using json.dump.
clear
copy
get
items
keys
pop
popitem
setdefault
update
values

as_dict

Return a dict that can be JSONify using json.dump.

as_dict(*, exclude_readonly: bool = False) -> Dict[str, Any]

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name	Description
exclude_readonly	bool Whether to remove the readonly properties.

Returns

Type	Description
dict	A dict JSON compatible object

clear

clear() -> None

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name	Description
exclude_readonly	bool Whether to remove the readonly properties.

copy

copy() -> Model

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name	Description
exclude_readonly	bool Whether to remove the readonly properties.

get

get(key: str, default: Any = None) -> Any

Parameters

Name	Description
key Required
default	Default value: None

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name	Description
exclude_readonly	bool Whether to remove the readonly properties.

items

items() -> ItemsView[str, Any]

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name	Description
exclude_readonly	bool Whether to remove the readonly properties.

keys

keys() -> KeysView[str]

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name	Description
exclude_readonly	bool Whether to remove the readonly properties.

pop

pop(key: str, default: ~typing.Any = <object object>) -> Any

Parameters

Name	Description
key Required
default

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name	Description
exclude_readonly	bool Whether to remove the readonly properties.

popitem

popitem() -> Tuple[str, Any]

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name	Description
exclude_readonly	bool Whether to remove the readonly properties.

setdefault

setdefault(key: str, default: ~typing.Any = <object object>) -> Any

Parameters

Name	Description
key Required
default

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name	Description
exclude_readonly	bool Whether to remove the readonly properties.

update

update(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name	Description
exclude_readonly	bool Whether to remove the readonly properties.

values

values() -> ValuesView[Any]

Keyword-Only Parameters

Name	Description
exclude_readonly	bool Whether to remove the readonly properties.

Attributes

description

A description of what the function does. The model will use this description when selecting the function and interpreting its parameters.

description: str | None

name

The name of the function to be called. Required.

name: str

parameters

The parameters the function accepts, described as a JSON Schema object.

parameters: Any | None