Handle adaptive card submit action value in nested dialogs

Question

I have chatbot created in C# using SDK .net Core 2.2 Virtual Assistant Template which has 1 main dialog and multiple dialog's(Component Dialog's). Each component dialog calls another component dialog. Let's say I have MainDialog, 2 component dialog's named ComponentDialog1,ComponentDialog2.

I am using DialogsTriggerState to know to which component dialog to trigger across entire bot.

Main Dialog Code: I am calling ComponentDialog1 in RouteAsync method of main dialog.

protected override async Task RouteAsync(DialogContext dc, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default(CancellationToken))
{
    var triggerState = await _triggerStateAccessor.GetAsync(dc.Context, () => new DialogsTriggerState());
    await dc.BeginDialogAsync(nameof(ComponentDialog1), triggerState);
    var turnResult = EndOfTurn;
    if (turnResult != EndOfTurn)
    {
        await CompleteAsync(dc);
    }
}

ComponentDialog1 Code: I have 3 waterfall steps , in which 2nd step will call to specific "ComponentDialog" depend on bot state. Assume I am triggering to "ComponentDialog2".

private async Task<DialogTurnResult> TriggerToSpecificComponentDialogAsync(WaterfallStepContext stepContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
    var triggerState = await _DialogsTriggerStateAccessor.GetAsync(stepContext.Context, () => null);

    if (triggerState.TriggerDialogId.ToString().ToLower() == "componentdialog2")
    {
        return await stepContext.BeginDialogAsync(nameof(ComponentDialog2), triggerState);
    }
    else if (triggerState.TriggerDialogId.ToString().ToLower() == "componentdialog3")
    {
        return await stepContext.BeginDialogAsync(nameof(ComponentDialog3), triggerState);
    }
    else
    {
        return await stepContext.NextAsync();
    }
}

ComponentDialog2 Code: I have 2 waterfall steps that shows adaptive card and fetch values from card and end dialog(ComponentDialog2)

private async Task<DialogTurnResult> DisplayCardAsync(WaterfallStepContext stepContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
    // Display the Adaptive Card
    var cardPath = Path.Combine(".", "AdaptiveCard.json");
    var cardJson = File.ReadAllText(cardPath);
    var cardAttachment = new Attachment()
    {
        ContentType = "application/vnd.microsoft.card.adaptive",
        Content = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(cardJson),
    };
    var message = MessageFactory.Text("");
    message.Attachments = new List<Attachment>() { cardAttachment };
    await stepContext.Context.SendActivityAsync(message, cancellationToken);

    // Create the text prompt
    var opts = new PromptOptions
    {
        Prompt = new Activity
        {
            Type = ActivityTypes.Message,
            Text = "waiting for user input...", // You can comment this out if you don't want to display any text. Still works.
        }
    };

    // Display a Text Prompt and wait for input
    return await stepContext.PromptAsync(nameof(TextPrompt), opts);
}

private async Task<DialogTurnResult> HandleResponseAsync(WaterfallStepContext stepContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
{
    await stepContext.Context.SendActivityAsync($"INPUT: {stepContext.Result}");
   //I am doing some logic and may continue to next steps also from here, but as I am stuck here i am ending dialog.
    return await stepContext.EndDialogAsync();
}

Problem: After clicking adaptive card submit in "ComponentDialog2" of 1st step, code(control) is not pointing to 2nd step "HandleResponseAsync" which it should be happen as I had provided Prompt and waiting for input.

Actual Output: I am neither getting any output nor errors in bot.

Expected Output:

1) Display to bot from ComponentDialog2: INPUT:Whatever I submitted

2) As i am ending dialog in ComponentDialog2, control(code) should return back to ComponentDialog1 and should go to 3rd waterfall step of ComponentDialog1.

Sample Adaptive Card

  {
   "type": "AdaptiveCard",
   "body": [
    {
        "type": "TextBlock",
        "size": "Medium",
        "weight": "Bolder",
        "text": "Let us know your feedback"
    }
],
"$schema": "http://adaptivecards.io/schemas/adaptive-card.json",
"version": "1.0",
"actions": [
    {
        "type": "Action.Submit",
        "title": "Good",
        "data": "good"
    },

     {
        "type": "Action.Submit",
        "title": "Average",
        "data": "avaerage"
    }
    ,{
        "type": "Action.Submit",
        "title": "Bad",
        "data": "bad"
    }
]
}

Please help me how to achieve

I'm able to get your adaptive card to hit the next step just fine using most of your code. Can you post any code you use for `OnTurnAsync()` or `OnMessageAsync()`. Or better yet, can you link to your repo? — mdrichardson, Jul 12 '19 at 15:58

mdrichardson · Answer 1 · 2019-07-17T16:42:55.513

After significant testing, I'm fairly certain that you're missing this call somewhere (it should somehow get called in OnMessageAsync():

var results = await dialogContext.ContinueDialogAsync(cancellationToken);

The way the Core Bot Sample does this is by adding it to DialogExtensions, which gets called in OnMessageAsync()

Update: I've also noticed that this can happen if await ConversationState.SaveChangesAsync(turnContext, true, cancellationToken); is in OnTurnAsync() but on in OnDialogAsync() (or if it isn't in either location); you also want to make sure that it's set to false and not true, generally.

Handle adaptive card submit action value in nested dialogs

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