Executor#

An Executor is a self-contained microservice that performs a task on a DocumentArray.

You can create an Executor by extending the Executor class and adding logic to endpoint methods.

There is a wide selection of pre-built Executors available on Jina AI’s Executor Hub. See the Hub section for more information.

Why use Executors?#

Once you’ve learned DocumentArray, you can use all its power and expressiveness to build a multimodal application. But what if you want to go bigger? Organize your code into modules, serve and scale them independently as microservices? That’s where Executors come in.

  • Executors let you organize DocumentArray-based functions into logical entities that can share configuration state, following OOP.

  • Executors can be easily containerized and shared with your colleagues using jina hub push/pull.

  • Executors can be exposed as a service over gRPC using ~jina.Deployment.

  • Executors can be chained together to form a ~jina.Flow.

Minimum working example#

from jina import Executor, requests, DocumentArray, Document, Deployment


class MyExecutor(Executor):
    @requests
    def foo(self, docs, **kwargs):
        for d in docs:
            d.text = 'hello world'


with Deployment(uses=MyExecutor) as dep:
    response_docs = dep.post(on='/', inputs=DocumentArray([Document(text='hello')]))
    print(f'Text: {response_docs[0].text}')
─────────────────────── 🎉 Deployment is ready to serve! ───────────────────────
╭────────────── 🔗 Endpoint ───────────────╮
│  ⛓     Protocol                    GRPC │
│  🏠       Local           0.0.0.0:55581  │
│  🔒     Private       192.168.0.5:55581  │
│  🌍      Public    158.181.77.236:55581  │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────╯
Text: hello world