# Fix minor issues in self-query retriever prompt formatting
I noticed a few minor issues with the self-query retriever's prompt
while using it, so here's PR to fix them 😇
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Any import that touches langchain.retrievers currently requires Lark.
Here's one attempt to fix. Not very pretty, very open to other ideas.
Alternatives I thought of are 1) make Lark requirement, 2) put
everything in parser.py in the try/except. Neither sounds much better
Related to #4316, #4275
Alternate implementation of #3452 that relies on a generic query
constructor chain and language and then has vector store-specific
translation layer. Still refactoring and updating examples but general
structure is there and seems to work s well as #3452 on exampels
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Co-authored-by: Harrison Chase <hw.chase.17@gmail.com>
Harrison Chase