IActivityLogger doesnot log PromptDialog.Choice text

Question

I am using IActivityLogger to log the conversation between bot and user. Here the logger is logging all the messages except the text is being generated by PromptDialog.Choice()

I have tested for other methods of PromptDialog like

PromptDialog.Confirm()
PromptDialog .Text()

These are working i meant text from these methods are being logged, only the PromptDialog.Choice text is not hitting the IActivityLogger.

Logger.cs

public class Logger : IActivityLogger
    {
        public async Task LogAsync(IActivity activity)
        {
            Debug.WriteLine(activity.AsMessageActivity()?.Text);
        }
    }

RootDialog.cs

public async Task StartAsync(IDialogContext context)
        {
            string[] choices = new string[]{ "choice 1" , "choice 2"};
            PromptDialog.Choice(context, resumeAfterPrompt, choices, "please choose an option.");
        }

        private async Task resumeAfterPrompt(IDialogContext context, IAwaitable<object> result)
        {
            await context.PostAsync((await result).ToString());
            context.Done<object>(null);
        }

Every other to and from messages are going through the Logger class except the PromptDialog.Choice() from the RootDialog.

Answer 1

I very briefly tested this, but it should work. If inside your IActivityLogger implementation you drill down farther than just activity.text. Some Activities may need and you can do it by simply using some if statements. I think there are more cases you will need to drill down into an activity for more than just the activity.text property than just this case. So using a similar strategy to log the information you would like to log for other unique types of content should work for you.

Something like this for example:

public class Logger : IActivityLogger
{
    public async Task LogAsync(IActivity activity)
    {
        IMessageActivity a = activity.AsMessageActivity();

        //loop through for cases there are multiple attachments
        for (int i = 0; i < a.Attachments.Count; i++)
        {
            //in the case of herocard
            if (a.Attachments[i].ContentType == "application/vnd.microsoft.card.hero")
            {
                //log something, i randomly picked a property
                Debug.WriteLine(a.Attachments[i].Name);
            }
            //another case
            if (a.Attachments[i].ContentType.Contains("image"))
            {
                //Maybe save the image somewhere
            }
        }
        Debug.WriteLine(activity.AsMessageActivity()?.Text);
    }
}

Answer 2

the PromptDialog.Choice text is not hitting the IActivityLogger

I create a sample and try to reproduce the issue, I find that it can hit the logger when I selected a option from PromptDialog.Choice options list.

RootDialog:

[Serializable]
public class RootDialog : IDialog<object>
{
    public Task StartAsync(IDialogContext context)
    {
        context.Wait(MessageReceivedAsync);

        return Task.CompletedTask;
    }

    private async Task MessageReceivedAsync(IDialogContext context, IAwaitable<object> result)
    {

        string[] choices = new string[] { "choice 1", "choice 2" };
        PromptDialog.Choice(context, resumeAfterPrompt, choices, "please choose an option.");
    }

    private async Task resumeAfterPrompt(IDialogContext context, IAwaitable<string> result)
    {
        string choice = await result;

        await context.PostAsync($"You sent {choice}");
        //context.Done<object>(null);
    }
}

Logger:

public class DebugActivityLogger : IActivityLogger
{
    public async Task LogAsync(IActivity activity)
    {
        Debug.WriteLine(activity.AsMessageActivity()?.Text);
    }
}

Emulator test result:

VS Output window:

Besides, if you set breakpoint inside your Logger to debug and trace the activity, you would find the activity.AsMessageActivity()?.Text will be "" when it renders a HeroCard to prompt user for one of a set of choices.

So a empty string will be written to VS Output window.