When building AI applications, you might want to restore previous conversations from a database to allow users to continue their conversations or review past interactions. The AI SDK provides mechanisms to restore conversation state through initialAIState
and onGetUIState
.
import { ServerMessage } from './actions';import { AI } from './ai';
export default function RootLayout({ children,}: Readonly<{ children: React.ReactNode;}>) { // Fetch stored messages from your database const savedMessages: ServerMessage[] = getSavedMessages();
return ( <html lang="en"> <body> <AI initialAIState={savedMessages} initialUIState={[]}> {children} </AI> </body> </html> );}
'use client';
import { useState, useEffect } from 'react';import { ClientMessage } from './actions';import { useActions, useUIState } from 'ai/rsc';import { generateId } from 'ai';
export default function Home() { const [conversation, setConversation] = useUIState(); const [input, setInput] = useState<string>(''); const { continueConversation } = useActions();
return ( <div> <div className="conversation-history"> {conversation.map((message: ClientMessage) => ( <div key={message.id} className={`message ${message.role}`}> {message.role}: {message.display} </div> ))} </div>
<div className="input-area"> <input type="text" value={input} onChange={e => setInput(e.target.value)} placeholder="Type your message..." /> <button onClick={async () => { // Add user message to UI setConversation((currentConversation: ClientMessage[]) => [ ...currentConversation, { id: generateId(), role: 'user', display: input }, ]);
// Get AI response const message = await continueConversation(input);
// Add AI response to UI setConversation((currentConversation: ClientMessage[]) => [ ...currentConversation, message, ]);
setInput(''); }} > Send </button> </div> </div> );}
The server-side implementation handles the restoration of messages and their transformation into the appropriate format for display.
import { createAI } from 'ai/rsc';import { ServerMessage, ClientMessage, continueConversation } from './actions';import { Stock } from '@ai-studio/components/stock';import { generateId } from 'ai';
export const AI = createAI<ServerMessage[], ClientMessage[]>({ actions: { continueConversation, }, onGetUIState: async () => { 'use server';
// Get the current AI state (stored messages) const history: ServerMessage[] = getAIState();
// Transform server messages into client messages return history.map(({ role, content }) => ({ id: generateId(), role, display: role === 'function' ? <Stock {...JSON.parse(content)} /> : content, })); },});
'use server';
import { getAIState } from 'ai/rsc';
export interface ServerMessage { role: 'user' | 'assistant' | 'function'; content: string;}
export interface ClientMessage { id: string; role: 'user' | 'assistant' | 'function'; display: ReactNode;}
// Function to get saved messages from databaseexport async function getSavedMessages(): Promise<ServerMessage[]> { 'use server';
// Implement your database fetching logic here return await fetchMessagesFromDatabase();}