How can i get all the chat history of bot and the user ?

[Masssluis]

@msgits2 @matvelloso @msft-shahins @msftgits
I need all the chat history of an user and the bot in a session , how can i get the data ? Please help me out in this .

[matvelloso]

Unless your bot is actually logging this data somewhere, the bot framework won't do that for you automatically. This has privacy implications and many bots simply can't allow that in their scenarios.

[Masssluis]

How can i log the data ? @matvelloso , please help me out , i need to fix this ASAP

[matvelloso]

Node or C#?

[Masssluis]

C# @matvelloso

[matvelloso]

You will need to implement an activity logger along the lines of this sample, then decide where you will store that. Also important to let your users know that their conversation is being logged:

//Sample of how to log messages

[BotAuthentication]

public class MessagesController : ApiController

{

public sealed class WillActivityLogger : IActivityLogger

{

async Task IActivityLogger.LogAsync(IActivity activity)
        
{
            //log here
	var x = activity;
        
}

}

static MessagesController()

{

var builder = new ContainerBuilder();
        
builder.RegisterType<WillActivityLogger>().AsImplementedInterfaces().InstancePerDependency();
        
builder.Update(Conversation.Container);

}

[msft-shahins]

Also here is an implementation of IActivityLogger using Azure table storage: https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder-Azure/blob/master/CSharp/Library/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure/TableLogger.cs#L60

and here is a test consuming the azure table logger and showing its usage: https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder-Azure/blob/master/CSharp/Tests/Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Azure.Tests/LoggerTests.cs#L160

[willportnoy]

I'm going to close this issue for now, but feel free to open a new issue for further discussion.

[aakashkag]

what about node js.. How we can achieve same thing in node js???

[willportnoy]

@Aakashvit you might consider using Node's send/receive middleware to log messages.

[matvelloso]

More specifically:

server.post('/api/messages', connector.listen());
var bot = new builder.UniversalBot(connector);
// Middleware for logging
bot.use({
botbuilder: function (session, next) {
myMiddleware.logIncomingMessage(session, next);
},
send: function (event, next) {
myMiddleware.logOutgoingMessage(event, next);
}
})

and:

module.exports = {
logIncomingMessage: function (session, next) {
console.log(session.message.text);
next();
},
logOutgoingMessage: function (event, next) {
console.log(event.text);
next();
}
}

[J4S0Nc]

Warning CS0618 'ContainerBuilder.Update(IContainer)' is obsolete: 'Containers should generally be considered immutable. Register all of your dependencies before building/resolving. If you need to change the contents of a container, you technically should rebuild the container. This method may be removed in a future major release.'

So what should we be using?

[matvelloso]

@willportnoy do we need to update this C# sample?