App Shortcut returns wrong actionName

[TomBrien]

As reported by tom_I on forums the app shortcut menu and the widgets (also app shortcut but also today screen) are not sending consistent actionNames on ios.action_fired. After a little testing I’ve confirmed that the shortcut menu is sending the value from the text field whereas the widgets and watch are correctly using the value from name. In the example below, the same action is used throughout.

Event 2 fired 8:49 AM:

{
    "event_type": "ios.action_fired",
    "data": {
        "sourceDeviceName": "Tom’s iPhone",
        "sourceDeviceID": "toms_iphone",
        "sourceDevicePermanentID": "xxx",
        "actionID": "67EC7179-290B-4798-9D27-B2B4F3B5F3E1",
        "actionName": "LivingRoomToggle",
        "triggerSource": "widget"
    },
    "origin": "REMOTE",
    "time_fired": "2019-12-02T08:49:02.564787+00:00",
    "context": {
        "id": "a81be075b8694b7e871857dd6c142db2",
        "parent_id": null,
        "user_id": "xxx"
    }
}

Event 1 fired 8:48 AM:

{
    "event_type": "ios.action_fired",
    "data": {
        "sourceDeviceName": "Tom’s iPhone",
        "sourceDevicePermanentID": "xxx",
        "actionName": "Living Room Lights",
        "sourceDeviceID": "toms_iphone",
        "actionID": "67EC7179-290B-4798-9D27-B2B4F3B5F3E1",
        "triggerSource": "appShortcut"
    },
    "origin": "REMOTE",
    "time_fired": "2019-12-02T08:48:52.257910+00:00",
    "context": {
        "id": "de55dab4ccc14ab9ad6943b881605d53",
        "parent_id": null,
        "user_id": "xxx"
    }
}

Event 0 fired 8:48 AM:

{
    "event_type": "ios.action_fired",
    "data": {
        "sourceDeviceName": "Tom’s iPhone",
        "triggerSource": "widget",
        "sourceDevicePermanentID": "xxx",
        "sourceDeviceID": "toms_iphone",
        "actionID": "67EC7179-290B-4798-9D27-B2B4F3B5F3E1",
        "actionName": "LivingRoomToggle"
    },
    "origin": "REMOTE",
    "time_fired": "2019-12-02T08:48:42.909484+00:00",
    "context": {
        "id": "3748369d41a3490689bcda30e563d11a",
        "parent_id": null,
        "user_id": "xxxx"
    }
}

[olbjan]

Apparently Widgets and appShortcuts use different sources for what to post to the Event bus - one uses action name, the other action text.

[TomBrien]

Ok little update on what I have found. The object used for the actions on the shortcut menu are defined here. But I believe are forced to used the same dictionary definition that "Send Location" uses which is defined here. We see same that the action.name is not used just a localized version of self.text. Basically an extra key is needed to allow different text and actionsNames.