Upgrade fastembed version from 0.1.1 to 0.2.1 (latest)

[geetu040]

Currently, qdrant-client uses fastembed version 0.1.1 however there is a latest version of fastembed 0.2.1 available out there.

Why should it be upgraded?

version 0.1.1 is outdated for qdrant as the latest version 0.2.1 has brough many changes in structure of code and efficiency
There have been following changes by going from 0.1.1 to 0.2.1 in fastembed

• use "with" to open JSON files
• HuggingFace download support for FlagEmbedding
• chore: patch for new Xenova Jina source
• feat: Support xenova/multilingual-e5-large, xenova/paraphrase-multilingual-mpnet-base-v2
• Refactoring of internal structure
• Refactor: Introduce experiments dir, README changes
• Support Python v3.12
• Simplify imports
• Fix query to align with Qdrant mixin usage
• Make 0.2.1 Release + Update docs

How to change

This can be changed easily by replacing the previous version 0.1.1

fastembed = [
    { version = "0.1.1", optional = true, python = "<3.12" }
]

With the latest version 0.2.1

fastembed = [
    { version = "0.2.1", optional = true, python = "<3.12" }
]

Test Cases

I have run test cases on qdrant with fastembed of both versions to see if any piece of code is affected

Failing Test: tests/test_fast_embed.py

FAILED tests/test_fast_embed.py::test_set_model - AssertionError: assert False

Next Step

If this issue sounds valid, I'll be happy to investigate the failing test case and upgrade to the latest version

[joein]

Hm, thanks for pointing out the failing test

Updating version is not the only thing we need to do after the refactoring of fastembed which has been done though

[geetu040]

@joein , I was trying to solve this issue from fastembed qdrant/fastembed#95.
Should I wait for fastembed to be upgraded to latest version, or work on currently support version (0.1.1)?

[geetu040]

upgraded in #493