Streamlit feedback not getting saved in st.form!

Himanshu_Gupta · January 22, 2024, 10:50am

I am trying to use streamlit feedback and save the user feedback to a log file but its not working properly in a st.form and i am always getting None in my feedback, any suggestions??

With st.form("main"):
     generate_answer()
   
    feedback = streamlit_feedback(
    feedback_type="thumbs",
    optional_text_label="[Optional] Please provide an explanation",
    align="flex-start")

   logging.info(f"feedback log -{feedback}")

ferdy · January 22, 2024, 1:22pm

Your code has errors.

Here is the correct one.

import streamlit as st
from streamlit_feedback import streamlit_feedback

with st.form("main", clear_on_submit=True):
    st.write('answer ...')
   
    feedback = streamlit_feedback(
        feedback_type="thumbs",
        optional_text_label="[Optional] Please provide an explanation",
        align="flex-start"
    )
    st.form_submit_button('save')

st.write(f"feedback log -{feedback}")

Himanshu_Gupta · January 22, 2024, 2:10pm

Thank you for the reply but my requirement entails for every generated result it should have a feedback saved but i guess a form cannot have two submit button?.

query = st.text_area("enter your query")
with st.form("main", clear_on_submit=True):
    st.form_submit_button('generate answer')
    generate_answer(query) ## which generates an answer as per query input

    feedback = streamlit_feedback(
        feedback_type="thumbs",
        optional_text_label="[Optional] Please provide an explanation",
        align="flex-start"
    )
    
     ..... 2nd submit/save button will throw error!
     st.write(f"feedback log -{feedback}")

ferdy · January 23, 2024, 4:55am

Could you show what generate_answer() function is?

Himanshu_Gupta · January 24, 2024, 6:17am

It’s a very long patch using genai models to generate answers.
In general like any app like chatgpt,

I write a query in natural language.
I click generate answer in a form taking query as an input
The app will provide an answer (generated result).
Now i want to take user feedback on the generated answer.

ferdy · January 24, 2024, 7:35am

Add form for query, user presses the query button and see the response. Show the feedback and record feedback’s reply.

import streamlit as st
from streamlit import session_state as ss
from streamlit_feedback import streamlit_feedback


if 'qr' not in ss:
    ss.qr = None


def ai_response(query):
    ss.qr = "Hey, what's up?" 


with st.form("query_form_k", clear_on_submit=False):
    query = st.text_area("Enter your query")
    st.form_submit_button('Get response', on_click=ai_response, args=(query,))

with st.container(border=True):
    st.write('Ai Response:')

    if ss.qr is not None:
        st.write(ss.qr)

with st.container(border=True):
    st.write('Your feedback:')

    feedback = streamlit_feedback(
        feedback_type="thumbs",
        optional_text_label="[Optional] Please provide an explanation",
        align="flex-start"
    )

    if ss.qr is not None and feedback:
        st.write(feedback)

Himanshu_Gupta · January 24, 2024, 1:57pm

Thank you for the quick help!

One doubt: is your feedback also not getting cleared after submitting a new query?
Once a feedback is submitted, I don’t get an option to clear and submit new feedback for new ai reponse or a new query.

ferdy · January 25, 2024, 7:25am

I make some revisions to the code. I added a button to restart the input/response/feedback session. There are also some comments in the code,

Sample Output

Code

import streamlit as st
from streamlit import session_state as ss
from streamlit_feedback import streamlit_feedback
import uuid


# The key of feedback is ss.fbk. Its value is ss.[ss.fbk]
# We do this to get a new feedback prompt.
# We use uuid to generate unique key converted to str.
if 'fbk' not in ss:
    ss.fbk = str(uuid.uuid4())

# Query response
if 'qr' not in ss:
    ss.qr = ''


def reset_cb():
    """Reset callback for feedback, etc.
    
    This can be used to save interactions.
    """
    ss.fbk = str(uuid.uuid4())  # use new key to display new feedback prompt
    ss.qt = ''  # reset query text
    ss.qr = ''  # reset query response


def ai_response():
    """Gets query text and use it to build a response.
    
    It assigns its response to the query response.
    """
    res = "Hey, what's up?"
    ss.qr = f"Your query is {ss.qt}. My response is: {res}" 


# Build a form to receive user query input.
with st.form("query_form_k", clear_on_submit=False):
    st.text_area("Enter your query", key='qt')
    st.form_submit_button('Get response', on_click=ai_response)

# Build a container to display ai response.
with st.container(border=True):
    st.write('Ai Response:')

    if ss.qr is not None:
        st.write(ss.qr)

# Manage the feedback.
with st.container(border=True):
    st.write('Your feedback:')

    streamlit_feedback(
        feedback_type="thumbs",
        optional_text_label="[Optional] Please provide an explanation",
        align="flex-start",
        key=ss.fbk
    )

    fb = ss[ss.fbk]
    if ss.qr != '' and fb:
        st.write(fb)

if st.button('Restart', on_click=reset_cb):
    st.rerun()

Himanshu_Gupta · February 3, 2024, 5:30pm

Thanks. I slightly modified this to reduce the number of buttons. On submitting ‘Get_response’ i run reset_cb. This works fine except 1 last bug.

on submitting the feedback, since the app reruns. The ai_response get’s cleared,
Any solution to keep the content as is in the form on submitting the feedback? Since the ai_response function is expensive, i don’t want to rerun it on submitting feedback.

import streamlit as st
from streamlit import session_state as ss
from streamlit_feedback import streamlit_feedback
import uuid

if 'fbk' not in ss:
    ss.fbk = str(uuid.uuid4())

def reset_cb():
    """Reset callback for feedback, etc.
    
    This can be used to save interactions.
    """
    ss.fbk = str(uuid.uuid4())  # use new key to display new feedback prompt


def ai_response():
    """Gets query text and use it to build a response.
    
    It assigns its response to the query response.
    """
    res = "Hey, what's up?"
    ss.qr = f"My response is: {res}"
    st.write(ss.qr)


# Build a form to receive user query input.
with st.form("query_form_k", clear_on_submit=False):
    st.text_area("Enter your query", key='qt')
    check = st.form_submit_button('Get response', on_click=reset_cb)
    if check:
        st.write('Ai Response:')
        ai_response()

# Manage the feedback.
with st.container():
    st.write('Your feedback:')

    streamlit_feedback(
        feedback_type="thumbs",
        optional_text_label="[Optional] Please provide an explanation",
        align="flex-start",
        key=ss.fbk
    )

ferdy · February 3, 2024, 8:48pm

Let’s get back from the code I posted.

Comment the start button code.

# if st.button('Restart', on_click=reset_cb):
#     st.rerun()

Comment setting the query and response boxes to empty.

def reset_cb():
    """Reset callback for feedback, etc.
    
    This can be used to save interactions.
    """
    ss.fbk = str(uuid.uuid4())  # use new key to display new feedback prompt
    # ss.qt = ''  # reset query text
    # ss.qr = ''  # reset query response

Call the reset_cb inside the ai_response

def ai_response():
    """Gets query text and use it to build a response.
    
    It assigns its response to the query response.
    """
    res = "Hey, what's up?"
    ss.qr = f"Your query is {ss.qt}. My response is: {res}" 
    reset_cb()  # Creates a new feedback prompt

Refactor the code if necessary including updating the docstrings.

The Get response button has now two functions. To get ai response and to generate a new feedback prompt.

sahirmaharaj · February 3, 2024, 10:31pm

Hello @Himanshu_Gupta,

Here’s the revised that should help ensure your feedback gets captured correctly:

import streamlit as st
import logging

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)

with st.form("main"):
    generate_answer_placeholder = st.empty()  # Placeholder for where you want to generate the answer
    
    feedback = streamlit_feedback(
        feedback_type="thumbs",
        optional_text_label="[Optional] Please provide an explanation",
        align="flex-start"
    )
    
    submitted = st.form_submit_button("Submit Feedback")
    
    if submitted:
        # Log feedback only if the form has been submitted
        logging.info(f"Feedback log - {feedback}")
        st.write(f"Feedback received: {feedback}")  # Display feedback for confirmation
        
        # Replace this with the logic to save feedback to a log file
        # For example: save_feedback_to_log(feedback)

Hope this helps!

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Himanshu_Gupta · February 4, 2024, 5:55am

Thanks @sahirmaharaj but this will not work. Generate answer needs a button, submit feedback has a separate button. 2 buttons will not work within the same form.

system · August 2, 2024, 5:56am

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