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# nemoguardrails.embeddings.providers.registry

## Module Contents

### Classes

| Name                                                                                                   | Description |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------- |
| [`EmbeddingProviderRegistry`](#nemoguardrails-embeddings-providers-registry-EmbeddingProviderRegistry) | -           |

### API

```python
class nemoguardrails.embeddings.providers.registry.EmbeddingProviderRegistry()
```

**Bases:** [Registry](/guardrails-python-sdk/nemoguardrails/registry#nemoguardrails-registry-Registry)

```python
nemoguardrails.embeddings.providers.registry.EmbeddingProviderRegistry.validate(
    name: str,
    item: typing.Any
) -> None
```

Validate the item to be registered.

**Raises:**

* `TypeError`: If an item is not an instance of EmbeddingModel.
* `ValueError`: If an item does not have 'encode' or 'encode\_async' methods.