async submitMessage()

in ChatbotUI/src/app/components/main/chat/chatbar/chatbar.component.ts [209:255]
42 lines of code
8 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

  async submitMessage(event: any) {
    this.outOfContextAnswerResponseObject = {
      like: false,
      dislike: false
    };
    this.removeSuggestionElement();
    this.pushQuestion(this.chatQuery);

    this.botStartTime = new Date().getTime();
    // keeps the scrollbar to the bottom
    const parentElement = document.getElementsByClassName('chat-body');
    parentElement[0].scrollTo(0, parentElement[0].scrollHeight);

    if (event instanceof KeyboardEvent || event instanceof MouseEvent) {
      event.preventDefault();
    }
    if (!this.chatQuery || this.chatQuery === '') {
      return;
    }
    if (!this.initialQuestion) this.initialQuestion = this.chatQuery;

    let singleMessage: Message = {
      body: this.chatQuery,
      type: 'user',
      shareable: true,
    }

    this.conversation.unshift(singleMessage);
    this.chatQuery = '';
    this.showLoader = true;
    this.setTimeoutForLoaderText();
    this.setCyclicBackgroundImages();
    this.chatService.postChat([...this.conversation]).subscribe({
      next: (event: HttpEvent<string>) => {
        if (event.type === HttpEventType.DownloadProgress) {
          this.handleBotResponse(
            (event as HttpDownloadProgressEvent).partialText as string
          );
        } else if (event.type === HttpEventType.Response) {
          this.handleBotResponse(event.body as string);
        }
      },
      error: () => {
        console.log("Error getting stream events");
      },
    });
  }