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When using a manually specified user id, bot emulator switches to user id r_[somenumber] after initial messages

See original GitHub issue

Version

4.8.1

Describe the bug

I set the emulator to use a custom user ID. It starts the conversation using that ID but after the initial messages from the bot it changes the user id to something like r_[somenumber].

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Go to emulator settings
Enable "Use your own user ID to communicate with the bot
Copy dl_e9360b03-412d-4597-8046-be40264fdc51@demo_company in the User ID field
Click save
Restart conversation with the bot
Inspect conversationUpdate to see that it adds member with id dl_e9360b03-412d-4597-8046-be40264fdc51@demo_company to conversation
See that bot answers with some intro message. recipient.id should be dl_e9360b03-412d-4597-8046-be40264fdc51@demo_company
Send a message to the bot. from.id should be dl_e9360b03-412d-4597-8046-be40264fdc51@demo_company but in my case it was r_1589199908. This breaks my bot logic.

Expected behavior

I expect the user ID to be the one I configured and I expect the user ID stay the same during the conversation.

Screenshots

Additional context

conversationUpdate:

{
  "channelId": "emulator",
  "conversation": {
    "id": "73bcb540-9382-11ea-8641-f9e1905c9a85|livechat"
  },
  "from": {
    "id": "dl_e9360b03-412d-4597-8046-be40264fdc51@demo_company",
    "name": "User",
    "role": "user"
  },
  "id": "73ce1a60-9382-11ea-a0f0-e59eeb591f47",
  "localTimestamp": "2020-05-11T14:25:08+02:00",
  "membersAdded": [
    {
      "id": "35afd9d0-9382-11ea-8641-f9e1905c9a85",
      "name": "Bot"
    },
    {
      "id": "dl_e9360b03-412d-4597-8046-be40264fdc51@demo_company",
      "name": "User"
    }
  ],
  "membersRemoved": [],
  "recipient": {
    "id": "35afd9d0-9382-11ea-8641-f9e1905c9a85",
    "name": "Bot",
    "role": "bot"
  },
  "serviceUrl": "http://localhost:53051",
  "timestamp": "2020-05-11T12:25:08.614Z",
  "type": "conversationUpdate"
}

message from bot: “How can I help you?”

{
  "attachments": [],
  "channelId": "emulator",
  "conversation": {
    "id": "73bcb540-9382-11ea-8641-f9e1905c9a85|livechat"
  },
  "entities": [],
  "from": {
    "id": "35afd9d0-9382-11ea-8641-f9e1905c9a85",
    "name": "Bot",
    "role": "bot"
  },
  "id": "79fb3800-9382-11ea-a0f0-e59eeb591f47",
  "inputHint": "expectingInput",
  "localTimestamp": "2020-05-11T14:25:18+02:00",
  "recipient": {
    "id": "dl_e9360b03-412d-4597-8046-be40264fdc51@demo_company",
    "role": "user"
  },
  "replyToId": "73ce1a60-9382-11ea-a0f0-e59eeb591f47",
  "serviceUrl": "http://localhost:53051",
  "speak": "Waar kan ik je mee helpen?",
  "text": "Waar kan ik je mee helpen?",
  "timestamp": "2020-05-11T12:25:18.976Z",
  "type": "message"
}

question containing issue: question from user to bot, where emulator seems to have wrong from.id

{
  "channelData": {
    "clientActivityID": "1589199932491y4w38xfucw",
    "clientTimestamp": "2020-05-11T12:25:32.491Z"
  },
  "channelId": "emulator",
  "conversation": {
    "id": "73bcb540-9382-11ea-8641-f9e1905c9a85|livechat"
  },
  "entities": [
    {
      "requiresBotState": true,
      "supportsListening": true,
      "supportsTts": true,
      "type": "ClientCapabilities"
    }
  ],
  "from": {
    "id": "r_1589199908",
    "name": "User",
    "role": "user"
  },
  "id": "820a8320-9382-11ea-a0f0-e59eeb591f47",
  "localTimestamp": "2020-05-11T14:25:32+02:00",
  "recipient": {
    "id": "35afd9d0-9382-11ea-8641-f9e1905c9a85",
    "name": "Bot",
    "role": "bot"
  },
  "serviceUrl": "http://localhost:53051",
  "text": "waar werk ik?",
  "textFormat": "plain",
  "timestamp": "2020-05-11T12:25:32.498Z",
  "type": "message"
}

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Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:10 (7 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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hansmbakkercommented, May 14, 2020

Yes, I believe so

1reaction

hansmbakkercommented, May 14, 2020

Hi @tonyanziano,

the pattern I saw was not r_<guid> but r_<integer> (you can see it in the json marked as “question containing issue”
I did restart conversation - new user id
I did not try changing the user id of an existing conversation. The issue is, that the emulator seemed to change the users id from <custom id> to r_<integer> after a few messages in the conversation