* ChatMemory will become a generic interface to implement different memory management strategies. It’s been moved from the “”spring-ai-client-chat” package to “spring-ai-model” package while retaining the same package, so it’s transparent to users.
* A MessageWindowChatMemory has been introduced to provide support for a chat memory that keeps at most N messages in the memory.
* A ChatMemoryRepository interface has been introduced to support different storage strategies for the chat memory. It’s meant to be used as part of a ChatMemory implementation. This is different than before, where the storage-specific implementation was directly tied to the ChatMemory. This design is familiar to Spring users since it’s used already in the ecosystem. The goal was to use a programming model similar to Spring Session and Spring Data.
* The JdbcChatMemory has been supersed by JdbcChatMemoryRepository.
* A ChatMemory bean is auto-configured for you whenever using one of the Spring AI Model starters. By default, it uses the MessageWindowChatMemory implementation and stores the conversation history in memory. If a different repository is already configured (e.g., Cassandra, JDBC, or Neo4j), Spring AI will use that instead.
* First-class documentation has been introduced to describe the ChatMemory API and related features.
* All the changes introduced in this PR are backward-compatible.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Vitale <ThomasVitale@users.noreply.github.com>
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