Ask content

Overview

Streams an AI-generated answer to a natural language question, grounded in your project’s content. Uses SSE (Server-Sent Events) to deliver tokens incrementally. Returns source citations once the stream completes. For integration guidance, see Ask Content.

Usage Example

import { useAskContent } from "@sublay/react-js";

function AskUI() {
  const { answer, sources, streaming, loading, error, ask, reset } = useAskContent();

  return (
    <div>
      <button onClick={() => ask({ query: "How do I reset my password?" })} disabled={loading || streaming}>
        Ask
      </button>
      {answer && <p>{answer}{streaming && " ▋"}</p>}
      {sources.map((s) => <div key={s.record.id}>[{s.sourceType}] {s.record.id}</div>)}
    </div>
  );
}

Parameters

Call ask with:

query

string

required

The natural language question.

sourceTypes

("entity" | "comment" | "message")[]

Limit the content types searched for context.

spaceId

string

Scope context lookup to a specific space.

includeChildSpaces

boolean

default:"false"

Only applies with spaceId. When true, the context lookup also covers every space nested under it — children, grandchildren, the whole subtree at any depth — so you can ask across a community and all of its channels at once. Ignored without spaceId.

conversationId

string

Scope context lookup to a specific conversation.

limit

number

Maximum number of source records to use as context.

Returns

answer

string

The AI-generated answer. Grows token by token while streaming is true.

sources

ContentSearchResult[]

Source records used as context. Populated after streaming ends. When spaceReputation is requested, each record’s embedded author carries an added spaceReputation number. See Reputation.

streaming

boolean

true while the SSE stream is open and tokens are arriving.

boolean

true from ask() call until the first token arrives.

error

string | null

Error message if the request failed.

ask

(props) => void

Starts a new question. Aborts any in-flight stream first.

reset

() => void

Aborts in-flight stream and clears all state.

In React Native, SSE streaming requires polyfills for fetch, ReadableStream, and TextDecoder. Install react-native-fetch-api, web-streams-polyfill@^3, react-native-polyfill-globals, and text-encoding, then call the targeted sub-polyfills once at app startup, before using this hook:

import { polyfill as polyfillEncoding } from "react-native-polyfill-globals/src/encoding";
import { polyfill as polyfillReadableStream } from "react-native-polyfill-globals/src/readable-stream";
import { polyfill as polyfillFetch } from "react-native-polyfill-globals/src/fetch";

polyfillEncoding();
polyfillReadableStream();
polyfillFetch(); // last, so it wins over the built-in fetch

Prefer these targeted polyfills over the all-in-one polyfillGlobals(): that helper also pulls in react-native-get-random-values, a native module that forces a development-client rebuild. The three above are pure JavaScript, so a Metro reload is enough. Pin web-streams-polyfill to v3 — v4 removed the ponyfill/es6 subpath that react-native-polyfill-globals requires.

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Chat — Core

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