sub in the functions

addResponse.go

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+	"google.golang.org/genai"
+)
+
+func addResponse(resp *genai.GenerateContentResponse) {
+	pb := convertToPB(resp)
+	log.Info(resp)
+	me.lastChat.AppendEntry(pb)
+	me.chats.ConfigSave()
+}

convertToPB.go

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/chatpb"
+	"google.golang.org/genai"
+)
+
+func convertToPB(resp *genai.GenerateContentResponse) *chatpb.ChatEntry {
+	pb := new(chatpb.ChatEntry)
+	// TODO: add the code to convert the response to the protobuf
+	return pb
+}

doPlayback.go

@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ func listChats(chats *chatpb.Chats) {
 	// Get the last chat
 	numChats := len(chats.GetChats())
 	if numChats > 0 {
-		lastChat := chats.GetChats()[numChats-1]
-		log.Printf("The current Gemini API session is UUID: %s\n", lastChat.GetUuid())
-		dumpchat(lastChat)
+		me.lastChat = chats.GetChats()[numChats-1]
+		log.Printf("The current Gemini API session is UUID: %s\n", me.lastChat.GetUuid())
+		dumpchat(me.lastChat)
 	}
 }
 

structs.go

@@ -16,9 +16,10 @@ var me *mainType
 
 // this app's variables
 type mainType struct {
-	pp     *arg.Parser   // for parsing the command line args.  Yay to alexf lint!
-	chats  *chatpb.Chats // all our prior conversations with regex
-	myGui  *gui.Node     // the gui toolkit handle
-	client *genai.Client // the Google Gemini AI client variable
-	ctx    context.Context
+	pp       *arg.Parser     // for parsing the command line args.  Yay to alexf lint!
+	chats    *chatpb.Chats   // all our prior conversations with regex
+	myGui    *gui.Node       // the gui toolkit handle
+	client   *genai.Client   // the Google Gemini AI client variable
+	ctx      context.Context // global context. what does this acutally mean?
+	lastChat *chatpb.Chat    // the last chat. append to here
 }

submitChat.go

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	"go.wit.com/log"
+	"google.golang.org/genai"
+)
+
+func submitChat(content []*genai.Content) error {
+	resp, err := me.client.Models.GenerateContent(me.ctx, "gemini-2.5-flash", content, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return log.Errorf("error sending message: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	log.Info("Response from API:")
+	for _, cand := range resp.Candidates {
+		if cand.Content != nil {
+			for _, part := range cand.Content.Parts {
+				fmt.Println(part)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	// TODO: add the response to the protobuf
+	addResponse(resp)
+	return nil
+}