How to display widgets only using createChatBotMessage method?

[VeenaMalali13]

When we don't have any message to display and we want to display widgets only, then what should be first parameter to createChatBotMessage method? e.g. createChatBotMessage (what should go here,{widget: widgetName});

[vijay-kumar-singh]

I am also looking solution for this query. As i am doing fetch call inside widget component and have to update chat bot message only when API respond back.

[VeenaMalali13]

I am also using fetch call, and in response I am getting buttons only(which I am using as widgets in chatbot). But here I want to show widget only and no text message. Please update if you get any solution. Thanks in advance.

[FredrikOseberg]

You can't currently do this. I'm working on expanding this for v2, but right now you can't render widgets alone. They must always be attached to a chatbot message. A hacky solution would be to modify the existing previous message provided that it does not have a widget:

// on fetch response 

this.setState(prev => {
     const lastMessage = prev.messages[prev.messages.length - 1];
     lastMessage.widget = "myWidget"

     return {
          ...prev, messages: [prev.slice(0, prev.messages.length - 1), lastMessage]
     }
})

@vijay-kumar-singh is this the same problem? If you are doing a fetch call in a rendered widget you can use the provided setState method to update the state once you get a response in the widget. All widgets receive the internal setState function as props, which you can access from the widget and update state.

[greendinosaur]

Any update as to whether this has been addressed? The workaround I've used is to call createChatBotMessage with a string with a single space and then style my widget to have the same background colour as the chatbot message. It's a bit of a hack.

[sean-cedar]

The workaround that I've built uses the createCustomMessage, rather than createChatBoxMessage, for certain answer types. This allows you to build a widget type of response via a custom message type, and does not use the standard massage response.