Bot does not reply

[abidhkhan]

Bot failed to reply on message_receive event. It looks like control never returns to bot controller and it hangs in wit.hears method, getting below log

debug: Successfully subscribed to Facebook events: {"success":true} {"msg_id":"262e9aa7-a945-452a-a275-3be9ff7c8970","_text":"hello","outcomes":[{"_text":"hello","confidence":null,"intent":"default_intent","entities":{"contact":[{"confidence":0.5748402256063738,"type":"value","value":"hello","suggested":true}]}}],"WARNING":"DEPRECATED"} debug: RECEIVED MESSAGE debug: CUSTOM FIND CONVO 1297127133704505 1297127133704505

Code snippet

`module.exports = function(bot, controller){
var wit = require('botkit-middleware-witai')({
token: process.env.wit_server_access_token,
logLevel: 'debug',
minConfidence: 0,
});

//Inject wit in receive
controller.middleware.receive.use(wit.receive);


// user said hello
controller.hears(['hello'], 'direct_message',wit.hears, function(bot, message) {
    bot.botkit.log("Wit.ai detected entities", message.entities);
    bot.reply(message, 'Hey there');

});

};
`

[rosy-sanby]

I am having exactly the same problem. Could you solve it?

[gcfabri]

I think you need to change 'direct_message' to 'message_received' for FB bots. But I am facing the same problem here..I need some help too.

[dhewlettea]

I'm running into the same problem using with a Slack Bot.

[NayabSiddiqui]

I'm running into the same problem. Any update on this issue ?
Thanks in advance.

[dhewlettea]

For a Slack bot, I've found this fork to work for everything except direct_message (which also seems to be a bug with the howdyai version): https://github.com/dfischer/botkit-middleware-witai.git

[pilarfc]

Your bot was sending you a message that this middleware is already deprecated, I think this is why it doesn't work.