Problem with bot.startConversation

[ca42rico]

Hi, I'm facing a problem using bot.startConversation, I use it for send messages(batch) sequentially. The problem is the bot receives, from Facebook Messenger, but not process all the messages (not enter in controller.hears or controller.on); in fact it receives all the messages but some are not captured by controller.hears or controller.on. It happen when arrived a batch of messages(a lot of messages) in input. It does not happen when I use bot.reply: all messages arrive and are answered.

I tried to capture messages both with

• controller.hears("(.*)", ["message_received","direct_message","direct_mention","mention"]... and
• controller.on(["message_received","direct_message","direct_mention","mention"]...

Examples of how I send messages

• It works, but messages are sent not sequentially

  var messages = await someFunction(parameter); //returns a promise
  for (let msg of messages) {
    bot.reply(message, msg); //'message' is the message arrived from a user(from Facebook)
  }
  }

• Doesn't works

  var messages = await someFunction(parameter); //returns a promise
  bot.startConversation(message, (err, convo) => {
  for (let msg of messages) {
    convo.say(msg);
  }
  });

  Could it be a problem with bot.startConversation? Can I send messages sequentially in other ways? Thanks

[peterswimm]

Take a look at https://github.com/howdyai/botkit/issues/422