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Kaveesha Baddage
Kaveesha Baddage

Reputation: 69

How to inject text in to React component of Microsoft botframework-webchat ?

I want to add and send a message in Microsoft chatbot without typing that message on textArea which is at the bottom of the Bot window. I need to give the message as a props to the react component (botframework-webchat).

I tried suggestions given in this link and it does not work for me.

How can I do that?

I tried this.

import { Chat } from "botframework-webchat";

class ChatBox extends Component {

componentDidMount() {
   document.getElementsByClassName('wc-shellinput')[0].value = "testMsg"
   document.getElementsByClassName('wc-send')[0].click()
}

render() {
   return (
      <React.Fragment>
        <div>
         <Chat
            directLine={{
               secret:
               "...."
            }}
            user={{ id: "Test" }}
            bot={{ id: "Demo" }}
            resize={"detect"}
            ref="chatBox"
         />
      </div>
    </React.Fragment>
    )
}
}

Upvotes: 1

Views: 588

Answers (1)

Gary Liu
Gary Liu

Reputation: 13918

I am not expert in React, but I found that in React, we only can update the input value via its state. And via source code, it seems that there is an entrance function called onChangeText().

So, please try following code snippet to update the input value:

  componentDidMount(){
    console.log(this.chat);
    this.chat.shellRef.props.onChangeText('testMsg');      
  }

Upvotes: 1

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