Session state and button in streamlit

[stuser]

Summary

I want to display the chat summary when the end chat and summarize button is clicked. I’m not getting any output on clicking the button.

Steps to reproduce

        if 'click' not in st.session_state:
            st.session_state.click = False

        #@st.cache_data(show_spinner=False)
        def onClickFunction():
            st.session_state.click = True
            st.session_state.out = chat_summary(agree_sumary=agree_sumary, chat_files=chat_files, messages = messages)

        runButton = st.button("End chat and summarize", on_click=onClickFunction)

        if st.session_state.click:
            st.write("out", st.session_state.out)

Expected behavior:

The chat summary should be output on clicking the button.

[Caroline]

Hey @stuser,

Thanks for sharing this question. Can you edit your post to include a runnable code snippet? It’s hard to say exactly what’s going wrong without seeing what chat_summary() is doing.

A simpler way to create a chat history and display it when someone clicks a button would be the following:

1. At the beginning of your script, initialize the chat history:

if "messages" not in st.session_state:
    st.session_state.messages = []

2. After the user enters a message, append that message to the message history:

    st.session_state.messages.append({"role": "user", "content": prompt})

3. In your on_click function, iterate through the message history and display each message:

for message in st.session_state.messages:
    with st.chat_message(message["role"]):
        st.markdown(message["content"])

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