🚀 Feature Request

Integration into sentence-transformer library.

📎 Additional context

I tried to load this tokenizer with sentence-transformer library but it failed. AutoTokenizer couldn't load this tokenizer. So, I simply added code to override save_pretrained and its dependencies so that this tokenizer is saved as T5Tokenizer, its super class.

        def save_pretrained(
        self,
        save_directory,
        legacy_format: Optional[bool] = None,
        filename_prefix: Optional[str] = None,
        push_to_hub: bool = False,
        **kwargs,
    ):
        if os.path.isfile(save_directory):
            logger.error(f"Provided path ({save_directory}) should be a directory, not a file")
            return

        if push_to_hub:
            commit_message = kwargs.pop("commit_message", None)
            repo = self._create_or_get_repo(save_directory, **kwargs)

        os.makedirs(save_directory, exist_ok=True)

        special_tokens_map_file = os.path.join(
            save_directory, (filename_prefix + "-" if filename_prefix else "") + SPECIAL_TOKENS_MAP_FILE
        )
        tokenizer_config_file = os.path.join(
            save_directory, (filename_prefix + "-" if filename_prefix else "") + TOKENIZER_CONFIG_FILE
        )

        tokenizer_config = copy.deepcopy(self.init_kwargs)
        if len(self.init_inputs) > 0:
            tokenizer_config["init_inputs"] = copy.deepcopy(self.init_inputs)
        for file_id in self.vocab_files_names.keys():
            tokenizer_config.pop(file_id, None)

        # Sanitize AddedTokens
        def convert_added_tokens(obj: Union[AddedToken, Any], add_type_field=True):
            if isinstance(obj, AddedToken):
                out = obj.__getstate__()
                if add_type_field:
                    out["__type"] = "AddedToken"
                return out
            elif isinstance(obj, (list, tuple)):
                return list(convert_added_tokens(o, add_type_field=add_type_field) for o in obj)
            elif isinstance(obj, dict):
                return {k: convert_added_tokens(v, add_type_field=add_type_field) for k, v in obj.items()}
            return obj

        # add_type_field=True to allow dicts in the kwargs / differentiate from AddedToken serialization
        tokenizer_config = convert_added_tokens(tokenizer_config, add_type_field=True)

        # Add tokenizer class to the tokenizer config to be able to reload it with from_pretrained
        ############################################################################
        tokenizer_class = self.__class__.__base__.__name__
        ############################################################################
        # Remove the Fast at the end unless we have a special `PreTrainedTokenizerFast`
        if tokenizer_class.endswith("Fast") and tokenizer_class != "PreTrainedTokenizerFast":
            tokenizer_class = tokenizer_class[:-4]
        tokenizer_config["tokenizer_class"] = tokenizer_class
        if getattr(self, "_auto_map", None) is not None:
            tokenizer_config["auto_map"] = self._auto_map
        if getattr(self, "_processor_class", None) is not None:
            tokenizer_config["processor_class"] = self._processor_class

        # If we have a custom model, we copy the file defining it in the folder and set the attributes so it can be
        # loaded from the Hub.
        if self._auto_class is not None:
            custom_object_save(self, save_directory, config=tokenizer_config)

        with open(tokenizer_config_file, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
            f.write(json.dumps(tokenizer_config, ensure_ascii=False))
        logger.info(f"tokenizer config file saved in {tokenizer_config_file}")

        # Sanitize AddedTokens in special_tokens_map
        write_dict = convert_added_tokens(self.special_tokens_map_extended, add_type_field=False)
        with open(special_tokens_map_file, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
            f.write(json.dumps(write_dict, ensure_ascii=False))
        logger.info(f"Special tokens file saved in {special_tokens_map_file}")

        file_names = (tokenizer_config_file, special_tokens_map_file)

        save_files = self._save_pretrained(
            save_directory=save_directory,
            file_names=file_names,
            legacy_format=legacy_format,
            filename_prefix=filename_prefix,
        )

        if push_to_hub:
            url = self._push_to_hub(repo, commit_message=commit_message)
            logger.info(f"Tokenizer pushed to the hub in this commit: {url}")

        return save_files