Now that you’ve deployed your well structured, exception handling, language understanding chatbot, how do you know just what people are saying to it?
Sure, you could copy and paste some logging code all over the place, but there must be a cleaner way.
In this article I’ll show you a few simple tricks to be able to save each message going to and from your botframework chatbot.
IDialog
Let’s start off by saving messages going to any dialog that implements IDialog<T>.
In order to implement IDialog<T> you only need to implement the StartAsync method; however, this isn’t much use on its own, so let’s get the dialog into a conversation loop by adding in a MessageReceivedAsync method and calling that from StartAsync and from itself: