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I have an SDK 4 bot, logging user interactions to Blob storage. I would also like to log bot responses also. In SDK 3 I did this with something like ...

bot.use({

    // Code for handling message receives

    receive: function (session, event, next) {

        var userId = session.address.user.id;

        logger.logUserConversation(session.text, userId, session.address.conversation.id, userId);

        next();

    },

    // Code for handling message sends

    send: function (event, next) {

        var text = event.text;    

        if(!event.text) {

            text = "Attachments sent";

        }

        logger.logUserConversation(text, 'bot', event.address.conversation.id, event.address.user.id);

        next();

    }

});

In SDK 4, I am able to configure middleware which intercepts user activity, but I cannot seem to intercept bot activity. I can't seem to find anything in the documentation, but I am new to SDK 4 and might be missing something.

Anybody know how I can intercept both user and bot events, so that I can log?

There are already 2 samples in Node.js in the official samples repository:

• 1 called "Logger": https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/tree/master/samples/javascript_nodejs/25.logger
  


• 1 called "transcript Logger": https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples/tree/master/samples/javascript_nodejs/26.transcript-logger
  

I gave a try to the 1st one and can confirm that it logs both user input and bot replies. It is logging every activity, even ConversationUpdate.

See example of transcript generated below:

 Activity Received: { type: 'conversationUpdate',

  membersAdded: [ { id: '1', name: 'Bot' } ],

  channelId: 'emulator',

  conversation: { id: '36e25420-ec19-11e8-8040-2ba105e71021|livechat' },

  id: '370f7ea0-ec19-11e8-9ee4-fb60855d29c5',

  localTimestamp: 2018-11-19T16:36:07.000Z,

  recipient: { id: '1', name: 'Bot', role: 'bot' },

  timestamp: 2018-11-19T16:36:07.689Z,

  from:

   { id: 'fd3fd64d-6297-4e36-98c5-ee398857f2b6',

     name: 'User',

     role: 'user' },

  locale: '',

  serviceUrl: 'http://localhost:58083' } 



 Activity Received: { type: 'conversationUpdate',

  membersAdded:

   [ { id: 'fd3fd64d-6297-4e36-98c5-ee398857f2b6', name: 'User' } ],

  channelId: 'emulator',

  conversation: { id: '36e25420-ec19-11e8-8040-2ba105e71021|livechat' },

  id: '3711c890-ec19-11e8-9ee4-fb60855d29c5',

  localTimestamp: 2018-11-19T16:36:07.000Z,

  recipient: { id: '1', name: 'Bot', role: 'bot' },

  timestamp: 2018-11-19T16:36:07.705Z,

  from:

   { id: 'fd3fd64d-6297-4e36-98c5-ee398857f2b6',

     name: 'User',

     role: 'user' },

  locale: '',

  serviceUrl: 'http://localhost:58083' } 



 Activity Received: { text:

   'I am a bot that demonstrates custom logging. We will have a short conversation where I ask a few questions  to collect your name and age, then store those values in UserState for later use. after this you will be able to find a log of the conversation in the folder set by the transcriptsPath environment variable Say anything to continue.',

  inputHint: 'acceptingInput',

  channelId: 'emulator',

  serviceUrl: 'http://localhost:58083',

  conversation: { id: '36e25420-ec19-11e8-8040-2ba105e71021|livechat' },

  from: { id: '1', name: 'Bot', role: 'bot' },

  recipient:

   { id: 'fd3fd64d-6297-4e36-98c5-ee398857f2b6',

     name: 'User',

     role: 'user' },

  replyToId: '3711c890-ec19-11e8-9ee4-fb60855d29c5',

  type: 'message',

  timestamp: 2018-11-19T16:36:08.408Z } 



 Activity Received: { type: 'message',

  text: 'test',

  from:

   { id: 'fd3fd64d-6297-4e36-98c5-ee398857f2b6',

     name: 'User',

     role: 'user' },

  locale: '',

  textFormat: 'plain',

  timestamp: 2018-11-19T16:36:23.421Z,

  channelData: { clientActivityId: '1542645367574.7109285295569892.0' },

  entities:

   [ { type: 'ClientCapabilities',

       requiresBotState: true,

       supportsTts: true,

       supportsListening: true } ],

  channelId: 'emulator',

  conversation: { id: '36e25420-ec19-11e8-8040-2ba105e71021|livechat' },

  id: '406fdad0-ec19-11e8-9ee4-fb60855d29c5',

  localTimestamp: 2018-11-19T16:36:23.000Z,

  recipient: { id: '1', name: 'Bot', role: 'bot' },

  serviceUrl: 'http://localhost:58083' } 



 Activity Received: { text: 'What is your name, human?',

  inputHint: 'expectingInput',

  channelId: 'emulator',

  serviceUrl: 'http://localhost:58083',

  conversation: { id: '36e25420-ec19-11e8-8040-2ba105e71021|livechat' },

  from: { id: '1', name: 'Bot', role: 'bot' },

  recipient:

   { id: 'fd3fd64d-6297-4e36-98c5-ee398857f2b6',

     name: 'User',

     role: 'user' },

  replyToId: '406fdad0-ec19-11e8-9ee4-fb60855d29c5',

  type: 'message',

  timestamp: 2018-11-19T16:36:23.443Z } 

More details about the code that generated that is available on the project, here. If you look at it, the main point is:

if (activity.value === 'endOfInput') {

    console.log(this.conversations[id]);

    var transcriptfileName = util.format('%s/log_%s.transcript', process.env.transcriptsPath, id);

    fs.writeFile(transcriptfileName, JSON.stringify(this.conversations[id], null, 3), function(err) {

        if (err) throw err;

    });

    delete this.conversations[id];

}