Issue connecting to other models

[iainwallacebms]

This might be a user error but I was unable to get the default example to work with either of the two options to connect different model. We regularly use ellmer to connect to different models in our corporate environment.

Adding this custom function to the top of the sample app caused the app to crash when loading as it was still trying to connect to open ai

 my_chat_func <- function(system_prompt) {
   return(
     chat_google_gemini(
       api_key = gemini_key,
       system_prompt = system_prompt,
      model = 'gemini-2.0-flash'
     )
   )
 }

The second option resulted in the app loading but the chat interface hanging after typing 'hello'

querychat_config <- querychat_init(mtcars,
                                   create_chat_func = purrr::partial(ellmer::chat_google_gemini, 
                                                                     model = 'gemini-2.0-flash',
                                                                     api_key = gemini_key)

Thanks

[chendaniely]

I think this is the same issue as #3.
There was an update to shinychat and we needed to patch querychat. It should be working now if you are using the latest versions of both packages.

edit:

install the dev version via:

# python
pip install querychat@git+https://github.com/posit-dev/querychat

# r
pak::pak("posit-dev/querychat/pkg-r")

[chendaniely]

edit: whoops just realized the post is about code in R, not python

Forgot to mention in the initial answer, please install the dev version:

pip install querychat@git+https://github.com/posit-dev/querychat