Change bubble on per type basis.

[gonnashred]

Super good stuff here and love the library.

How can I change the bubble widget on a per-message-type basis? If I use the customMessageBuilder property, I can change bubble contents for just customMessage, but not the bubble itself --> it is still the default bubble. If I use the bubbleBuilder property, then I can change the bubbles for all messages, but lose access to the default bubble builder that I will still need for most messages.

So the use case is, I want to render most messages in your default bubble built as you have it. But for rare custom messages, I want to just render a button or a text field with no bubble surrounding it - and possible centered in the chat.

So using your "Custom chat bubbles" section in docs I want to:

`Widget _bubbleBuilder(
Widget child, {
required message,
required nextMessageInGroup,
}) {

if (message.type == types.MessageType.custom && ) {
return ElevatedButton("text not surrounded by a bubble at all and possibly centered");
} else { // I want to render your default bubble build
// somehow call the default that you use possible?
return message.bubbleBuilder();
}
}`

The key is I don't appear to have access to the default bubbleBuilder either in the function params or the message param.

[demchenkoalex]

Hey @gonnashred I didn't know how to pass a default bubble, but my thinking was that it is like 10 lines of code and can be easily copied, so you can just copy paste the bubble code from the lib itself, returning it for all messages and modify it for your particular message. WDYT?

[gonnashred]

Possibly. Doing what you suggest pulls in the InheritedChatTheme which doesn't seem accessible from outside the package. Working on some alternatives to see.

[demchenkoalex]

Yep, you just copy theme values, do not use inherited theme :)

[gonnashred]

OK, I will do this to get it working. I will keep pushing on a way to alternately defer widget building between a customer bubbleBuilder and the default engine. If I come to some refactoring that is cool, I'll reach back out.