apache/seatunnel

[Feature] Connector prepare for RAG

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#9,713 opened on Aug 18, 2025

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As a multimodal data integration tool, we hope that SeaTunnel can support parsing complex file types, converting their contents into structured file streams, and ultimately writing them into a vector library through embedding. This issue tracks related tasks.

For chunking please refer Please refer https://docs.dify.ai/en/guides/knowledge-base/create-knowledge-and-upload-documents/chunking-and-cleaning-text and https://docs.llamaindex.ai/en/stable/examples/node_parsers/semantic_chunking/

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Review the SeaTunnel connector architecture and existing file parsing connectors. Understand chunking methods from references. Propose a design for RAG connector.
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java
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