Vertex AI Matching Engine proto conflicts with google.cloud.aiplatform

Hello Google Team,

I have a Cloud Run service that’s calling Vertex AI Matching Engine grpc endpoint. As soon as install pip install google-cloud-aiplatform and import aiplatform from google.cloud import aiplatform it fails with the following error message.

"match_service.proto": google.cloud.aiplatform.container.v1beta1.MatchRequest 
is already defined in file "google/cloud/aiplatform/matching_engine/_protos/match_service.proto".

Which makes sense because the proto files also contain the package package google.cloud.aiplatform.container.v1beta1;

package version: google-cloud-aiplatform 1.14.0

Any suggestions?

[ReneeZhuGG]

Hi, are you importing match_service_pb2 generated by yourself as instructed in this notebook?

Can you try importing the match_service_pb2 in the SDK:

from google.cloud.aiplatform.matching_engine._protos import match_service_pb2
from google.cloud.aiplatform.matching_engine._protos import match_service_pb2_grpc

That notebook is not using this SDK and does not have the conflict problem. It only happens when you use SDK together with the manually generated grpc client library.

[ReneeZhuGG]

Another method you can do is to use the match method provided by the SDK: https://github.com/googleapis/python-aiplatform/blob/main/google/cloud/aiplatform/matching_engine/matching_engine_index_endpoint.py#L902

Example can be found in this notebook: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/vertex-ai-samples/blob/main/notebooks/official/matching_engine/sdk_matching_engine_for_indexing.ipynb

However, it doesn’t support filtering and crowding right now.