Not receiving proactive messages

[fercom]

When trying to send proactive messages twitter doesn't show anything, the code I am using is the following:

var userAccount = new ChannelAccount() {Id = activityRecibida.FromId, Name = activityRecibida.FromName};
                var botAccount = new ChannelAccount()
                {
                    Id = activityRecibida.RecipientId,
                    Name = activityRecibida.RecipientName
                };
                string url = activityRecibida.ServiceUrl;

                MicrosoftAppCredentials.TrustServiceUrl(url, DateTime.Now.AddYears(2));
                var appId = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["MicrosoftAppId"];
                var appPassword = System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["MicrosoftAppPassword"];
                var account = new MicrosoftAppCredentials(appId, appPassword);
                var connector = new ConnectorClient(new Uri(url), account);

                IMessageActivity activity = Activity.CreateMessageActivity();
                activity.From = botAccount;
                activity.Recipient = userAccount;
                activity.Conversation = new ConversationAccount() {Id = activityRecibida.ConversationId};
                activity.Text = $"[{from}]: " + message;
                activity.Locale = activityRecibida.Local;
                var response = await connector.Conversations.SendToConversationAsync((Activity) activity);
                await activityLogger.LogAsync(activity);

It works on facebook, emulator and skype, but here it simply doesn't. Do you have any clue? Thanks

[tompaana]

That isn't currently supported by this project.

At the moment we anticipate the Twitter user to be the first one to send a message. Then we match the ID of the forwarded message (to the bot) with the Twitter user ID in order to be able to respond back.

In order for proactive messages to work we need:

• The Twitter user (recipient) ID in store - we could store every Twitter user ID we see perhaps AND
• some rule to match the recipient in the proactive message to the Twitter user ID.

So I believe it can be done, but requires a bit of work, which unfortunately I don't have time for in the near future.

If someone wants to tackle this, there are some clues in https://github.com/tompaana/bot-message-routing project.

[tompaana]

Sorry, I forgot to thank you @fercom - This is genuinely valid issue.

[fercom]

@tompaana Maybe I can do something to help you, but I will need to debug your project, any tips? I have tried to debug the Direct Line connections before but it wasn´t successful. I also think that your project could be the key to finally create a bridge between bot framework and whatsapp (here in México and in Latin América it is a big concern). Thank you for your work!

[tompaana]

If WhatsApp provides an API similar to Twitter, I see no reason why this approach would not work for WhatsApp as well.

What kind of a problem do you have with Direct Line?

At the moment this project is polling for messages (not great - I want to switch to using web sockets), and all incoming messages should be intercepted by putting a break point in the method DirectLineManager.PollMessagesAsync (https://github.com/tompaana/twitter-bot-fw-integration/blob/master/TwitterBotFWIntegration/DirectLineManager.cs#L88).

[fercom]

Hi @tompaana, any update on this issue? Thanks!