Hello Spring Ai with Ollama

Spring Boot Supports communication with the Ollama AI Model using a ChatClient interface. ChatClient supports both synchronized and streaming API communication. The ChatClient creates a Prompt that contains the instructions for the Ai Model. The ChatClient supports majorly 2 types of Prompt messages, First is User Messages, which are considered a User Input Message or User Requests, and second is System Message which is the instruction from the System to the AI Model to process. let's see it in a Hello Spring Ai with Ollama program

The easiest way to create a ChatClient is to create a bean and Autowire into the class.

package com.example.springai.controller;

import org.springframework.ai.chat.client.ChatClient;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.GetMapping;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RestController;

@RestController
public class SpringAiController {
    private final ChatClient chatClient;

    public SpringAiController(ChatClient.Builder chatClient) {
        this.chatClient = chatClient.build();
    }

    @GetMapping("/hello")
    String hello() {
        String helloPrompt = "Hello, I am learning Ai with Spring";
        return this.chatClient.prompt().user(helloPrompt).call().content();
    }
}

package com.example.springai;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class SpringAiApplication {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(SpringAiApplication.class, args);
    }
}

spring.application.name=SpringAi
spring.docker.compose.lifecycle-management=start-only
spring.threads.virtual.enabled=true

docker-compose.yml

services:
  ollama-model:
    image: ollama/ollama:latest
    container_name: ollama_container
    ports:
      - 11434:11434/tcp
    healthcheck:
      test: ollama --version || exit 1
    command: serve
    volumes:
      - ./ollama/ollama:/root/.ollama
      - ./entrypoint.sh:/entrypoint.sh
    pull_policy: missing
    tty: true
    restart: no
    entrypoint: [ "/usr/bin/bash", "/entrypoint.sh" ]

  open-webui:
    image: ghcr.io/open-webui/open-webui:main
    container_name: open_webui_container
    environment:
      WEBUI_AUTH: false
    ports:
      - "8081:8080"
    extra_hosts:
      - "host.docker.internal:host-gateway"
    volumes:
      - open-webui:/app/backend/data
    restart: no

volumes:
  open-webui:
  redisinsight_db:

entrypoint.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Start Ollama in the background.
/bin/ollama serve &
# Record Process ID.
pid=$!
# Pause for Ollama to start.
sleep 5
echo "🔴 Retrieve mistral model..."
ollama pull mistral
echo "🟢 Done!"
# Wait for Ollama process to finish.
wait $pid

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>3.3.2</version>
        <relativePath/>
    </parent>
    <groupId>com.example.springai</groupId>
    <artifactId>hello-spring-ai</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <name>Hello Spring Ai</name>
    <description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>

    <properties>
        <java.version>21</java.version>
        <spring-ai.version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</spring-ai.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-ai-ollama-spring-boot-starter</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-docker-compose</artifactId>
            <scope>runtime</scope>
            <optional>true</optional>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <dependencyManagement>
        <dependencies>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.springframework.ai</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-ai-bom</artifactId>
                <version>${spring-ai.version}</version>
                <type>pom</type>
                <scope>import</scope>
            </dependency>
        </dependencies>
    </dependencyManagement>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <mainClass>com.example.springai.SpringAiApplication</mainClass>
                    <excludes>
                        <exclude>
                            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
                            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
                        </exclude>
                    </excludes>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
    <repositories>
        <repository>
            <id>spring-milestones</id>
            <name>Spring Milestones</name>
            <url>https://repo.spring.io/milestone</url>
            <snapshots>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </snapshots>
        </repository>
        <repository>
            <id>spring-snapshots</id>
            <name>Spring Snapshots</name>
            <url>https://repo.spring.io/snapshot</url>
            <releases>
                <enabled>false</enabled>
            </releases>
        </repository>
    </repositories>
</project>

run the curl to see the Ollama Model response

curl --location 'http://localhost:8080/hello'