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Christian Walling
Copper Contributor
Mar 10, 2022

Adaptive Card not sending data on iOS Teams app

Hi there, I´m experiencing an issue with an Adaptive Card not sending back any user entered data to the bot through Action.Execute. The action works in the browser, the Teams desktop app and the Tea...
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Christian Walling's avatar
Christian Walling
Copper Contributor
Mar 15, 2022

Sayali-MSFT 

I'm on iOS 15.3.1

 

protected override async Task<InvokeResponse> OnInvokeActivityAsync(ITurnContext<IInvokeActivity> turnContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
            if (turnContext.Activity.Name == "adaptiveCard/action")
            {
                await turnContext.SendActivityAsync(new Activity { Type = ActivityTypes.Typing }, cancellationToken);
                ChatActivities chat = new ChatActivities(this._appId, this._appPassword);
                KeyVaultHelper keyVault = new KeyVaultHelper();
                TableStorageHelper table = new TableStorageHelper(keyVault, turnContext.Activity.Conversation.TenantId);

                
                dynamic request = turnContext.Activity.Value;
                string comment = (request.action.data.InputComment == null) ? "" : request.action.data.InputComment;

The last line (12) is the one where it crashes because request.action.data is null. (Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.RuntimeBinderException: Cannot perform runtime binding on a null reference). It is always null when sent from the iOS app, if I type in a comment or leave the field empty. It's also independent of the action button I'm using.

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Christian Walling
Copper Contributor
Mar 15, 2022

Sayali-MSFT 

ok I found the difference between your example and my code:

In the example there's always a "data" node in the action which I didn't have. Therefore I added a dummy value to the action:

{
                      "type": "Action.Execute",
                      "title": "Genehmigen",
                      "verb": "approve",
                      "data": {
                        "Dummy":  "Dummy"
                      }
}

And now the iOS app sends the comment from the input back to the bot. For now I'm going to add that dummy value to all actions as a workaround as it doesn't seem to interfere with the overall operation of the bot.

If you remove the "data" part from the action in "firstCard.json" in your example app, you should run into the same problem that I had.

 

 

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    Sayali-MSFT
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    Mar 16, 2022

    Christian Walling  -As per mention above. I can add the dummy data in data section.We are not able to reproduce the issue. It works fine.

    Is there need to change anything else?

     {
      "type": "ActionSet",
      "actions": [
        {
          "type": "Action.Execute",
          "verb": "firstCard",
          "title": "Submit",
          "data": {
            "Dummy": "Dummy"
          }
        }
      ]
    }
  ],

     

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      Christian Walling
      Copper Contributor
      Mar 16, 2022

      Sayali-MSFT Yes, as I've written it works if you add the dummy data. You need to fully remove the "data": {} node from the action to see the error.

      • Sayali-MSFT's avatar
        Sayali-MSFT
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        Mar 17, 2022
        Christian Walling - We are able to repro that issue, we have raised bug for the same and concerned team is looking into it. We will inform you once we get any update.

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