Get the current TurnContext out of DialogTestClient

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I want to get the values of a new ConversationState(new MemoryStorage()) while testing a dialog. I would like to check if the dialog saves specific properties in the MemoryStorage.

Describe the solution you’d like Expose the TurnContext of the current turn in the test so I can access the data in the conversationState.

Describe alternatives you’ve considered

1. Find the saved Values directly out of the MemoryStorage -> I can’t find the values that are saved there.
2. I tried to get the values with statePropertyAccessor.get(client.dialogContext.context);. The client is the DialogTestClient. I get the following error:

[MatthiasGwiozda]

Understood! Thank you for your time. I think we have to switch to TestFlow as it gives us more flexibility.

Everything we can do with DialogTestClient, TestFlow can do it aswell. And even more.

[v-kydela]

@MatthiasGwiozda - While I have spent some time trying to figure out the unique purpose of DialogTestClient, it’s still a mystery to me. My best guess is that while TestFlow is used to test dialogs from the bot’s perspective, DialogTestClient is used to test dialogs from the client’s perspective. That is to say, a client won’t know what’s going on inside a bot with its turn context and all that, and will just see the bot’s outgoing activities. In the end, a dialog test client will end up just giving you less information so it’s still hard to see why that would be preferred over TestFlow. A dialog test client uses a test adapter internally anyway.

It’s possible that these two overlapping classes were just a result of multiple teams working on the SDK simultaneously and coming up with their own ways of doing things.

Does this resolve your issue?