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voonsionglum
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May 13, 2020
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Skills: Simple Bot to Bot and Skills Dialog

Hi, We came across the Bot Service's Skills concept at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/skill-implement-skill?view=azure-bot-service-4.0&tabs=cs.  We cloned the Bot Samples and tri...
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    voonsionglum
    Jun 19, 2020
    Looks like it had something to do with the bot-xxx NPM packages that I was using. After I updated to ~4.9.0, I no longer have any issues.
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voonsionglum
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May 18, 2020

There are different tech versions for the Skills Simple Bot to Bot samples. Since I am having issues with the NodeJS version, I wanted to try out the DotNet version.

 

Lo and behold, the CSharp version of the Simple Bot to Bot sample actually works! The root bot can send activities to the skill bot and the skill bot responds beautifully.

 

 

 

Now that we know the CSharp version of the sample works, I wanted to know if the NodeJS version is breaking on the skill bot end or the root bot end. I replaced the Skill Bot App Id in the root bot with the NodeJS version and redeployed the root bot. It turns out that this scenario is also working correctly!

 

 

This implies that the NodeJS version of the root bot is breaking. I went and updated the root bot NodeJS version's skill end point to the CSharp version of the skill bot. The NodeJS root bot never got a response from the CSharp version of the skill bot.

 

It feels like the NodeJS version of the SkillClient might be buggy.  Has someone else come across this?  Maybe I should open an issue in GitHub?

 

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voonsionglum
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Jun 19, 2020
Looks like it had something to do with the bot-xxx NPM packages that I was using. After I updated to ~4.9.0, I no longer have any issues.

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