Calling beginDialog from inside a ask() handler causes a message to be skipped

[benbrown]

Due to the way the dialog stack works, calling a bot.beginDialog() inside an ask() handler will cause the next step of the dialog in which the ask() is called to be skipped.

This is because the ask() handler actually fires during the first phase of processing that next step, and when the beginDialog occurs, the process is short circuited. There is currently no way to resume at that step after the child dialog has completed.

One possible solution is to split the message into 2 actual steps, one solely for processing the response to the question and a second to send the following message. This can theoretically be achieved inside the .ask function.