From a19cf0087397a692a22aee4cbe296797033ec509 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ItzCrazyKns <95534749+ItzCrazyKns@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2025 17:17:31 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] feat(lineOutputParser): return undefined on invalid tags

---
 src/lib/outputParsers/lineOutputParser.ts | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/lib/outputParsers/lineOutputParser.ts b/src/lib/outputParsers/lineOutputParser.ts
index fcd69ef..5c795f2 100644
--- a/src/lib/outputParsers/lineOutputParser.ts
+++ b/src/lib/outputParsers/lineOutputParser.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ interface LineOutputParserArgs {
   key?: string;
 }
 
-class LineOutputParser extends BaseOutputParser<string> {
+class LineOutputParser extends BaseOutputParser<string | undefined> {
   private key = 'questions';
 
   constructor(args?: LineOutputParserArgs) {
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ class LineOutputParser extends BaseOutputParser<string> {
 
   lc_namespace = ['langchain', 'output_parsers', 'line_output_parser'];
 
-  async parse(text: string): Promise<string> {
+  async parse(text: string): Promise<string | undefined> {
     text = text.trim() || '';
 
     const regex = /^(\s*(-|\*|\d+\.\s|\d+\)\s|\u2022)\s*)+/;
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ class LineOutputParser extends BaseOutputParser<string> {
     const endKeyIndex = text.indexOf(`</${this.key}>`);
 
     if (startKeyIndex === -1 || endKeyIndex === -1) {
-      return '';
+      return undefined;
     }
 
     const questionsStartIndex =