How to respond to message from the Bot Framework (Direct Line Client)?

Question

I want to create a dialog with the bot framework. My steps:

1. Create a new Conversation using the Direct Line API (Works without problems) (Clientside)

2. The following Dialog gets triggered in the Bot framework (Serverside):

   bot.dialog('*:notification', [
   function (session, args) {
     builder.Prompts.text(session, args)
   },
   function (session, results) {
     logger.info('Results', results)
   }])
   

3. I want to send a reply to the incoming Message (Clientside)

   method:'post',
   url:'conversations/' + conversationId + '/activities',
   headers:{
       'Authorization': 'Bearer' + token
   }
   body:{
       replyToId: replyToId,
       type:'message',
       from: { 
           id:'myId'
       },
       text: 'Some simple text',
       textFormat: 'plain'
   }
   

conversationId: I use the one i recieved when i created the conversation

token: I use the one i recieved when i created the conversation

replyToId: The one from the activity Object

Actual Result:

4. The Botframework does not recognize that this is the reply to the message send and triggers the default handler.

Expected Result:

4. The Bot Framework triggers the second step of the Dialog.

Answer 1

For the first thing, your dialog '*:notification' don't have a triggerAction, you can for example modify your dialog like this:

bot.dialog('*:notification', [
    function (session, args) {
      builder.Prompts.text(session, args)
    },
    function (session, results) {
      logger.info('Results', results)
}]).triggerAction({matches: /^notification/i});

Then you may use DL to send message from your client side to your bot and trigger this dialog like this:

method:'post',
url:'conversations/' + conversationId + '/activities',
headers:{
    'Authorization': 'Bearer' + token
}
body:{
    type:'message',
    from: { 
        "id": "1234",
        "firstname": "fname",
        "lastname": "lname"
    },
    text: 'notification',
    textFormat: 'plain'
}