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Spring AI in Action
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Spring AI in Action

by Craig Walls
November 2025
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
9h 3m
English
Manning Publications
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3 Submitting prompts for generation

This chapter covers

  • Defining prompt templates
  • Providing context
  • Formatting response output
  • Streaming responses
  • Accessing response metadata

In the first chapter, you created a very simple Spring AI application that receives a question in a POST request and submits it directly to an LLM via the injected ChatClient. It worked well, but as your generative AI requirements get more advanced, so will the prompts you send to the LLMs. As your prompts get more sophisticated, a String-based prompt may not do.

Also, there’s more to a generated response than just a basic String response. The result may include useful metadata, including usage data to help you gauge how much each generation affects billing. Responses ...

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