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Chirag K
Chirag K

Reputation: 2434

C# BotFramework Prompt.Confirm displays too many attempts exception

I was recently developing a chatbot using Microsoft's botframework. I am using prompt.confirm to take user's yes/no input but it shows too many attempts exception when I write basic yes/no. I don't want my bot to display too many attempts exception instead I want to handle it internally. Here's my code.

[LuisIntent("None")]
public async Task NoneIntent(IDialogContext context, LuisResult result)
{
    try
    {
        PromptDialog.Confirm(context, NextQuestionAsync, QuestionPrompt, attempts: 1, promptStyle: PromptStyle.Auto);
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        await context.PostAsync("Something really bad happened.");
    }
}

public async Task NextQuestionAsync(IDialogContext context, IAwaitable<bool> result)
{
    try
    {
        if (await result)
        {
            await context.PostAsync($"Ok, alarm 0 disabled.");
            //context.Wait(NoneIntent);
        }
        else
        {
            await context.PostAsync("You Said No");
        }
    }
    catch (Exception e)
    {

    }
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2012

Answers (2)

Ezequiel Jadib
Ezequiel Jadib

Reputation: 14787

You can just override the TooManyAttempts message by passing your own string in the PromptOptions constructor, which is later used here to display the message.

Also, have in mind that in the case of the TooManyAttempts exception, the way to handle it is in the try/catch of the ResumeAfter method (in this case your NextQuestionAsync method), surrounding the await and not in the caller method.

Upvotes: 4

Chirag K
Chirag K

Reputation: 2434

I resolved this issue by overriding the PromptOptions constructor, Thanks to ezequiel. I used PromptDialog.Choice to achieve it however I could also have done it with confirm. Here's what I did

    List<string> questions = new List<string>();
    questions.Add("Yes"); // Added yes option to prompt
    questions.Add("No"); // Added no option to prompt
    string QuestionPrompt = "Are you sure?";
    PromptOptions<string> options = new PromptOptions<string>(QuestionPrompt, "", "", questions, 1); // Overrided the PromptOptions Constructor.
   PromptDialog.Choice<string>(context, NextQuestionAsync, options);

Upvotes: 3

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