# No nodes rerturned from retriever/query

**URL:** <https://forum.weaviate.io/t/no-nodes-rerturned-from-retriever-query/2725>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [June 17, 2024, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/no-nodes-rerturned-from-retriever-query/2725 "2024-06-17T13:16:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![camden](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/camden/32/1761_2.png) [@camden](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/camden)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2024, 1:16pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/no-nodes-rerturned-from-retriever-query/2725/1 "2024-06-17T13:16:33Z")

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### Description

I’m trying to create a RAG where I put the output of OCR into weaviate then run queries against the index that produces (I think, sorry if I get any terminology wrong, feel free to correct me). I’ve put a simplified version of my code here: [Dockerfile · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/cam-narzt/27b15754de1ae07fa1f49589fc30e616) with unnecessary things like secret loading stripped out and everything put in one file so it’s easier to read. When I run my code, weaviate never returns any nodes from the `index.as_retriever().retrieve(prompt)` call, no matter how I phrase the prompt/query. Likewise the `index.as_query_engine(output_cls=Invoice, response_mode="compact").query(prompt).response` call returns `Empty Response`.

### Server Setup Information

- Weaviate Server Version: 1.23.7
- Deployment Method: docker-compose
- Multi Node? Number of Running Nodes: 1
- Client Language and Version: python weaviate-client 4.6.4
- Multitenancy?: no

### Any additional Information

I already tried asking the llama-index help chat on their discord, but they couldn’t help: [Discord](https://discord.com/channels/1059199217496772688/1250533314289336410)

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**Author:** ![DudaNogueira](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/dudanogueira/32/7846_2.png) [@DudaNogueira](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/DudaNogueira)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/no-nodes-rerturned-from-retriever-query/2725/2 "2024-06-19T13:06:03Z")

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Hi @camden ! Welcome to our community!

When you query directly to Weaviate, can you see the objects there?

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**Author:** ![camden](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/camden/32/1761_2.png) [@camden](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/camden)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/no-nodes-rerturned-from-retriever-query/2725/3 "2024-06-19T18:00:12Z")

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Depends what you mean by directly. I just tried using the weaviate python client directly instead of via llama index, and I couldn’t get any sign that any collection had any data in it. However I didn’t use the graphql api directly.

here’s an example of what I used to check if weaviate had any data: `[client.collections.get(collection).query.fetch_objects() for collection in client.collections.list_all()]`

Assuming that I’m checking correctly, then weaviate only creates the collections but does not populate them when I run my above-linked code. Any idea why? I definitely pass a bunch of TextNodes to the constructor as I’ve printed them out before I do and they exist.

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**Author:** ![camden](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/forum.weaviate.io/camden/32/1761_2.png) [@camden](https://forum.weaviate.io/u/camden)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2024, 11:28pm UTC](https://forum.weaviate.io/t/no-nodes-rerturned-from-retriever-query/2725/4 "2024-06-19T23:28:18Z")

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I updated the gist to contain an entire reproduction environment. You can just download all the files into one dir, and run `docker compose up` to run it.

The nodes are not being stored by weaviate, which is very strange.