Change Embedding property type from string to AIContent

[Copilot]

Changes IngestionChunkVectorRecord.Embedding from string? to AIContent?, passing the chunker's content directly to the vector store instead of extracting text first.

Changes

• IngestionChunkVectorRecord — property type changed to AIContent?
• VectorStoreWriter — assigns chunk.Content directly instead of extracting text
• VectorStoreExtensions — uses generic VectorStoreVectorProperty<AIContent> so the model builder resolves IEmbeddingGenerator<AIContent, TEmbedding>; retains AsAIContentEmbeddingGenerator/AsStringEmbeddingGenerator adapter classes for wrapping between string and AIContent generators
• Templates — DataIngestor now accepts IEmbeddingGenerator<AIContent, Embedding<float>> and uses .AsStringEmbeddingGenerator() for the chunker; Program.cs registers embeddingGenerator.AsAIContentEmbeddingGenerator(); Aspire Program.Aspire.cs adds a DI decorator wrapping the string generator to AIContent; IngestedChunk.Embedding simplified to => Content;
• Templates & snapshots — all IngestedChunk, Program.cs, and DataIngestor.cs snapshots updated to match
• Tests — embedding generators changed from TestEmbeddingGenerator<string> to TestEmbeddingGenerator<AIContent>; shared GetText helper moved to DocumentChunkerTests base class

Example

public class IngestedChunk : IngestionChunkVectorRecord
{
    [VectorStoreVector(1536, DistanceFunction = DistanceFunction.CosineDistance)]
    public override AIContent? Embedding => Content;
}

Note: The VectorData framework may not yet fully support AIContent as an embedding source type — this is intentional per the request; the author will resolve the remaining integration on their branch.

[adamsitnik]

@copilot please address my feedback. Make sure we don't generate the embedding based on the SerializedContent, but on the original AIContent that was created by the chunker

[Copilot]

@copilot please address my feedback. Make sure we don't generate the embedding based on the SerializedContent, but on the original AIContent that was created by the chunker

Addressed in the latest commit. The embedding is now generated from the original text content extracted from AIContent (via TextContent.Text), not from the JSON SerializedContent.

Important note: I investigated VectorData 10.1.0 and confirmed it does not support AIContent as a vector property type — it only accepts string as an embedding source type. When using typeof(AIContent) in VectorStoreVectorProperty, it fails with: "cannot convert the input type 'AIContent' to a supported vector type". Similarly, if the CLR property type is AIContent? but the definition says typeof(string), it fails with a type mismatch error.

Because of this framework limitation, Embedding remains string? containing the actual text content (not JSON). Once VectorData adds AIContent support, we can upgrade the property type. The adapter extension methods (AsAIContentEmbeddingGenerator/AsStringEmbeddingGenerator) are available for scenarios where the abstraction layer needs to work with AIContent-based generators.

[adamsitnik]

@copilot address my new feedback

[Copilot]

@copilot address my new feedback

Done. Changes in commit that follows:

• Moved GetText helper to DocumentChunkerTests base class (shared by all test types)
• Replaced all inline ((TextContent)chunk.Content).Text casts with GetText() in SectionChunkerTests and SemanticSimilarityChunkerTests
• Changed IngestedChunk.Embedding to => Content; in the template and all snapshot files
• Made HeaderChunkerTests inherit from DocumentChunkerTests to use the shared helper

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[adamsitnik]

@copilot please fix following build errors:

src\Libraries\Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion\Writers\VectorStoreWriter.cs(6,1): error S1128: (NETCORE_ENGINEERING_TELEMETRY=Build) Remove this unnecessary 'using'. (https://rules.sonarsource.com/csharp/RSPEC-1128)

src\Libraries\Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion\Writers\VectorStoreWriter.cs(9,1): error S1128: (NETCORE_ENGINEERING_TELEMETRY=Build) Remove this unnecessary 'using'. (https://rules.sonarsource.com/csharp/RSPEC-1128)