Avatars and Decorating with activityMiddleware do not play well together

I am struggling with this for some time now (see also this SO question). I reproduced the issue using the samples so hopefully you guys can shed some light on this.

The problem: Avatars are not shown as soon as you use activity middleware for decorating.

To reproduce:

step 1. Clone the sample with the password input. step 2 Add this code to the index.html

     const styleOptions = {
          botAvatarInitials: 'WC',
        };

and pass styleOptions={styleOptions} in ReactWebChat

                window.ReactDOM.render(
          <ReactWebChat
            activityMiddleware={activityMiddleware}
            directLine={window.WebChat.createDirectLine({ token })}
            store={store}
            styleOptions={styleOptions}
          />,
          document.getElementById('webchat')
        );

Step 3. Send ‘sample:password-input’ to the the mock bot. The password input form is shown but no avatar Step 4. Send ‘Hi’ to mock-bot. The avatar is shown with the response.

For some reason, avatars are not shown when I decorate based on an evetn sent by the bot-code. This used to work before 4.14. Should I use a workaround?

[HesselWellema]

Nope. Wanted you give you the honour to close it.

[stevkan]

@HesselWellema, thanks for bringing this to our attention. I will attempt a repro of this and let you know what I find.