Feature/genai disable empty input #470
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Issue
Closes #469
Reason for this change
Users could send empty messages or messages containing only whitespace in the AI chat interface, causing model validation errors:
Error: The model returned the following errors: messages: text content blocks must contain non-whitespace textError: Invalid message content: empty string. 'human' must contain non-empty content.This occurred when users clicked Send or pressed Enter without typing actual content, resulting in confusing error messages and poor UX.
Description of changes
Added client-side validation in
ChatInputComponentto prevent submission of empty or whitespace-only messages:disabledprop to check if the message contains non-whitespace content using!message.trim()checkKeyPresshandler to validate message content (message.trim()) before processing Enter key submissionThe fix ensures that:
Description of how you validated changes
Manual testing performed:
No unit tests added as this is a UI interaction fix in an existing component without test coverage.
Checklist
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