My discord bot is unable to mention a role - discord.py

The code segment for the mention:
hrole = discord.utils.get(ctx.guild.roles,name="Heist")
await ctx.send(hrole.mention)
I've tried switching to <#&id> type mentions as well, but no matter how I change it it doesn't ping
what it does is send a #Heist which doesn't actually ping anyone
The bot has administrator permissions by the way

I managed to get the bot to ping the role cby changing the code to this:
allowed_mentions = discord.AllowedMentions(roles = True)
hrole = discord.utils.get(ctx.guild.roles,name="Heist")
await ctx.send(hrole.mention, allowed_mentions=allowed_mentions)
for some reason the allowed reactions were turned off in the cog, this can fix it

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how to properly delete or update activities on bot framework?

I can't find a guide on documentation for make this possible.
I tried to use TurnContext.UpdateActivity, but I'm getting an error.
My code:
IMessageActivity responseActivity = MessageFactory.Text("Test ctm");
responseActivity.Id = userProfile.messageToDelete;
responseActivity.Conversation = turnContext.Activity.Conversation;
responseActivity.ServiceUrl = turnContext.Activity.ServiceUrl;
//await turnContext.DeleteActivityAsync(userProfile.messageToDelete, cancellationToken: cancellationToken);
await turnContext.UpdateActivityAsync(responseActivity, cancellationToken);
The last line throws the exception:
Microsoft.Bot.Schema.ErrorResponseException: 'Operation returned an invalid status code 'NotFound''
What could be wrong? Can you share any code sample?
The Emulator is built on top of Web Chat, and unfortunately, Web Chat does not support updating or deleting activities at the moment. For more details, take a look at this comment in Web Chat's source code and this open issue in the Web Chat repository for adding support for deleteActivity and updateActivity.
Hope this helps!

Error sending message to WebChat via DirectLine

I have a bot deployed in Azure. Uses the latest >net bot framework, (v3).
The front-end uses the vanilla WebChat. I am trying to send an event from the BOT TO THE CLIENT, in order to trigger a wipe of the webchat visible history.
I'm getting the more than useless 502 error when my bot tries to send the event message.
The JS to setup the web chat and directline on my front end is:
var botConnection = new BotChat.DirectLine({
secret: {secret removed..becuase secret},
//token: params['t'],
//domain: params['domain'],
webSocket: "true" // defaults to true
});
BotChat.App({
bot: bot,
botConnection: botConnection,
resize: 'detect',
user: user,
chatTitle: false,
showUploadButton: false
}, document.getElementById('bot'));
//backchannel communication setup
botConnection.activity$
.filter(function (activity) {
return activity.type === 'event' && activity.name === 'clearChatHistory';
})
.subscribe(function (activity) {
console.log('"clearChatHistory" received');
clearChatHistory();
});
function clearChatHistory() {
$(".wc-message-wrapper").remove();
}
The idea here is that my bot code will create a message of type 'activity' with the value = 'clearChatHistory'. This fire the code on my client.
The code for sending this message is:
internal static async Task SendClearChatHistoryEvent(Activity activity)
{
Trace.TraceInformation($"Utility::SendClearChatHistoryEvent");
Activity clearMessage = activity.CreateReply();
clearMessage.Type = "event";
clearMessage.Value = "clearChatHistory";
Trace.TraceInformation(JsonConvert.SerializeObject(clearMessage));
Trace.TraceInformation($"Utility::SendClearChatHistoryEvent::ServiceURL:{activity.ServiceUrl}");
var connector = new ConnectorClient(new Uri(activity.ServiceUrl));
await connector.Conversations.SendToConversationAsync(clearMessage);
}
The bot fail is happening at the 'SendToConversationAsync' call
The closest thing I get to an error is on the client side
"https://directline.botframework.com/v3/directline/conversations/5OSJJILizNqGG4H7SaV6fQ/activities 502 (Bad Gateway)"
The Visual Studio output window displays
'Microsoft.Rest.TransientFaultHandling.HttpRequestWithStatusException'
and 'Microsoft.Bot.Connector.ErrorResponseException
exceptions
Any insights on what I might be doing wrong or whats happening otherwise here would be greatly appreciated.
You're setting the value on the event but checking the name. If you use this as the filter it should work:
.filter(activity => activity.type === 'event' && activity.value === 'clearChatHistory')
Regarding the bad gateway however, I am not sure, as I was not seeing this occur with your code on my system.
I figured out what the problem is. First, there was a bug in my code example which Mark B pointed out. However, that was not the source of the problem but it did help me to get to the real issue.
The Bad Gateway problem wasn't really a good indicator of the problem either. I had to do a lot of Trace writing and stepping through code to finally notice what was happening. I'll try to describe the problem so you all can learn from my boneheaded mistake.
The understand the problem, you need to understand what this line of code is doing
Activity clearMessage = activity.CreateReply();
CreateReply() creates a new Activiy from an existing one. When it does that, it swaps the values of From and Recipient. This is because you want to reply to the person the original message comes from. Make 100% total sense.
The problem, for me, was my original message was ALSO created by calling CreateReaply() in a previous dialog. SO, I basically created a new message to be sent to myself (or the bot in this case). I need the message to to to the chatbot user, not the bot.
When the bot framework attempted to send itself a message it excepted and failed. Why it got the bad gateway error I dont exactly know and will continue to research that.
To fix this, I changed my upstream code to use
var newMessage = context.MakeMessage()
instead of the CreateReaply(). This does not swap From and Recipient.
Everything is now flowing along very nicely. My code will now force a wipe of the visible chat history in my WebChat client.

Using MS Teams as Channel: Authentification Dialog (GetTokenDialog class from Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Dialogs) doesn't popup

How can I use the new authentification feature in Bot Builder with MS Teams?
There seems to be an issue with Teams (see Login user with MS Teams bot or https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder/issues/2104), seems if this is not considered in GetTokenDialog?
Is there any chance to get around this?
Just found the reason why it won't work with Teams. In method Microsoft.Bot.Connector.Activity.CreateOAuthReplyAsync(), Parameter asSignInCard has to be set to True for MSTeams, then, the line new CardAction() { Title = buttonLabel, Value = link, Type = ActionTypes.Signin } has to be changed to new CardAction() { Title = buttonLabel, Value = link, Type = ActionTypes.OpenUrl } because MS Teams can obviously not deal with Action type Signin. Hope, the MS developers will fix that method soon.
There are a few things you need to do to get this to work. First you need to create a manifest file for your bot in teams and whitelist token.botframework.com. That is the first problem.
From teams itself in AppStudio you create a Manifest. I had to play around with this a little bit. In AppDetails... Let it generate a new ID. Just hit the button. The URLs really don't matter much for testing. The package name just needs to be unique so something like com.ilonatag.teams.test
In the bots section you plug in your MS AppId and a bot name. This is a the real MSAPPID from your bots MicrosoftAppId" value=" from web.config in your code.
Ok now in "finish->valid domains" I added token.botframework.com and also the URL for my bot just in case. so something like franktest.azurewebsites.net
This part is done but you are not quite done... in your messages controller you need to add this since Teams sends a different verification than the other clients.
if (message.Type == ActivityTypes.Invoke)
{
// Send teams Invoke along to the Dialog stack
if (message.IsTeamsVerificationInvoke())
{
await Conversation.SendAsync(message, () => new Dialogs.RootDialog());
}
}
It took me a bunch of going back and forth with Microsoft to get this sorted out.
This is a known problem using OAuthCard in MS Teams. To solve it, you can change the Button ActionType from signIn to openUrl using this solution on github

discord.py delete author message after executing command

I need the bot to delete the message from the command author, and leave the bot message. Any help will be appreciated! thank you.
I have already tried looking for a answer on google but nothing has worked
I'm kinda late here. I tried implementing this with the new 1.0 terms but couldn't make it work. If anyone has an updated version, please do tell
Edit: I found that the new best way of doing it is to just add this at the end of the function:
await ctx.message.delete()
No need for a separate delete function anymore.
You can obtain the message that called the command by passing the context with the command using the pass_context option. You can use the Client.delete_message coroutine to delete messages.
from discord.ext import commands
bot = commands.Bot(command_prefix='!')
#bot.command(pass_context=True)
async def deletethis(ctx):
await bot.say('Command received')
await bot.delete_message(ctx.message)
await bot.say('Message deleted')
bot.run('token')

Using script to fire Xcode bot

Is there a way to manually fire existing Xcode bots using shell scripts? I have a manual bot and I'd like to fire it based on certain custom logic criteria.
Yes.
You'll need to do a couple of things:
Firstly, I'm going to call your Xcode Server's IP address XCS_IP, usually localhost if you're on the machine where Xcode Server's running.
Find out the ID of the bot: in Terminal, run curl -k "https://XCS_IP:20343/api/bots". Copy the output to some editor and find the value for key _id for your bot, will be something like 6b3de48352a8126ce7e08ecf85093613. Let's call it BOT_ID.
Trigger an integration by running curl -k -X POST -u "username:password" "https://XCS_IP:20343/api/bots/BOT_ID/integrations" -i
Where username and password are credentials of a user that is allowed to create bots on the server, an admin will do.
If you're interested in more details, I have an app in Swift that uses that API and many more: https://github.com/czechboy0/Buildasaur/blob/master/BuildaCIServer/XcodeServer.swift#L324
And checkout my article on how to find Xcode Server's API "documentation": http://honzadvorsky.com/blog/2015/5/4/under-the-hood-of-xcode-server.
TL;DR? On your Mac, look at /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/share/xcs/xcsd/routes/routes.js, where you can find the available APIs.
Hope this helped.
Apple has added documentation for the Xcode server API that you can use to trigger bots.
https://developer.apple.com/library/tvos/documentation/Xcode/Conceptual/XcodeServerAPIReference/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40016472-CH1-SW1
Below is some example code on how you can make a python script that triggers a bot.
import requests
xcodeIP = '1.2.3.4.5'
def main():
botName = "name of bot"
runBot(botName)
def runBot(botName):
requests.post(xcodeIP + '/api/bots/' + getBot(botName)["_id"] + '/integrations', auth=('username', 'password'), verify=False)
def getBot(botName):
botIDRequest = requests.get(xcodeIP + '/api/bots', auth=('username', 'password'), verify=False)
bots = botIDRequest.json()["results"]
for bot in bots:
if bot["name"] == botName:
return bot
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()

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