Unable to get user from mention on MS teams

[nmwael]

I have this method but no matter what I do I cannot get the user mentioned (userA) in the chat to the bot:

    @ChatRequest(value = "echoUser {userA}",  description = "writeback user details")
    public MessageResponse echoUser(Addressable a, @ChatVariable("userA")  Optional<TeamsUser> userA) {
        if(userA.isPresent() && userA.isPresent()) {
            return new MessageResponse(a, "user  A<" + userA.get().getKey() + userA.get().getName() + ">");
        }else
        {
            return new MessageResponse(a, "user not found" );

        }
    }

Im very unsure if its just some kind of permission I need to give to my bot or application registration.. I can get the Addressable

[nmwael]

im double checking, something.. This might be related to the fact that Im running on mixed environments.. Trial for teams and msdn for azure..

[nmwael]

Ok remade this on a clean system, and still no luck.

[robmoffat]

HI @nmwael, sorry - for some reason I missed this notification. Let me take a look today and get back to you

[robmoffat]

Right, so I checked out the latest code for demo-bot from spring-bot-develop branch and added your controller code above. It mainly works for me:

A couple of things:

• You can't mention at all in a 1-1 chat, so there's no point trying to run this command 1-1. That's why I'm demonstrating this in a Teams channel. Also works in a teams multi-way chat.
• As you can see, I kind of had trouble addressing the bot with /. That should work, I'll raise a ticket.
• You're kind of "looking into" the teams object... if you want you can do something like this:

 @ChatRequest(value = "echoUser {userA}",  description = "writeback user details")
    public MessageResponse echoUser(Addressable a, @ChatVariable("userA")  Optional<TeamsUser> userA) {
        if(userA.isPresent() && userA.isPresent()) {
            return new MessageResponse(a, Message.of(Word.of("User "), userA.get()));
        }else
        {
            return new MessageResponse(a, "user not found" );

        }
    }

And that will produce this output:

[robmoffat]

.. just checking something else - you did all the ngrok stuff and you can see the bot being called on your Java console, right?

[nmwael]

Yup

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.. just checking something else - you did all the ngrok stuff and you can see the bot being called on your Java console, right?

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[robmoffat]

isn't that the other issue you raised? I think it's better if we treat them separately.

Let me see if I can help you debug this. If you type echoUser @somepersoninthechat:

1. Does the echoUser method get called?
2. If so, what is the value of userA?

Let's start with that.

[nmwael]

Okay, yes the methods is called and I think you have addressed my problem.. I was @ someone who was not in the chat.. Is it not possible at all? Our chat bot is a system management bot, which configures stuff on users voice settings on teams. AFAIK the ms /who bot can check users not in chat, but is that because its not a 1-1 chat?

[robmoffat]

I think this is just a MS Teams thing - you can only mention people in the chat/channel. It's a pretty annoying restriction. Also, you can't mention yourself!! See:

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