How to change the value externally via `st.session_state`?

[samsucik]

I'm struggling to make changes to the value displayed in the searchbox. Does anyone have any advice?

What I've tried so far:

• in my Streamlit app's code, changing st.session_state.<searchbox_key>["result"]
• making the same change but instead in the searchbox component's __init__.py (roughly here)

While the entry in st.session_state changes, the searchbox continues do display just the default placeholder (Search ...).

Fyi I'm using the 0.1.3 version installed from PyPi

[m-wrzr]

Typically the values displayed are driven by the search_function that is passed to the component. If you want to run it without the search function you can also set the options manually, (the search state is handled via react), See the example below:

key = f"{search.__name__}_manual"
n_options = st.slider("slider", 0, 10, 5, key="slider")

if key in st.session_state:
    st.session_state[key]["options_js"] = [
        {"label": f"{st.session_state[key]['search']}_{i}", "value": i}
        for i in range(n_options)
    ]
    st.session_state[key]["options_py"] = [i for i in range(n_options)]

manual = st_searchbox(
    search_function=lambda _: [],
    key=key,
)

st.write(manual)