ERROR: Activity resulted into multiple skype activities

[register9091]

Hi,

When i try to update a card with another card i get a message saying "Activity resulted into multiple skype activities"

Test code

Activity cardTest = new Activity();
                            cardTest.withType(ActivityTypes.MESSAGE).withRecipient(activity.from())
                                    .withId(activity.id()).withFrom(activity.recipient())
                                    .withAttachments(Arrays.asList(
                                            new Attachment().withContentType("application/vnd.microsoft.card.thumbnail")
                                                    .withContent(new ThumbnailCard().withTitle("Thumbnail")
                                                            .withSubtitle("card").withText("Thumbnail card"))));

                            String actId = new BotConnectorImpl(activity.serviceUrl())
                                    .sendToConversation(activity.conversation().id(), activity.id(), cardTest);

                            new Runnable() {
                                @Override
                                public void run() {
                                    try {
                                        Thread.sleep(2000);
                                        System.out.println("Sending world");
                                        new BotConnectorImpl(activity.serviceUrl()).updateConversation(
                                                activity.conversation().id(), actId,
                                                new Activity().withType(ActivityTypes.MESSAGE).withText("World")
                                                        .withId(actId)
                                                        .withAttachments(Arrays.asList(new Attachment()
                                                                .withContentType(
                                                                        "application/vnd.microsoft.card.thumbnail")
                                                                .withContent(new ThumbnailCard()
                                                                        .withTitle("Thumbnail new").withSubtitle("card")
                                                                        .withText("Thumbnail card")))));
                                    } catch (Exception e) {
                                        e.printStackTrace();
                                    }
                                }
                            `}.run();`

For the first call i get back the following response

Response{protocol=http/1.1, code=201, message=Created, url=https://smba.trafficmanager.net/inlocal-client-ss.msg/v3/conversations/a:1eqU_84Pldp0o64r8ZSkPs8tFylA2Tl6v-XdbDnRyHkZHbWtdirivh0NTYQ-Y9Ro9cUQN6Txt9HFt49Qgw56ewE7UfvQuttra2tpI0GIHDUXGMVSWiSnuVesjc4GdJuO_/activities/1529042383029}
{"id" = "1:1LOoYnwMp4chbJTW6ltBxMm1EwRp3j13gWgbS-qeY-Zs"}

And in response i get the following for which i am getting the error message

[apache-tomcat-9.0.8]: Response{protocol=http/1.1, code=400, message=Bad Request, url=https://smba.trafficmanager.net/inlocal-client-ss.msg/v3/conversations/a:1eqU_84Pldp0o64r8ZSkPs8tFylA2Tl6v-XdbDnRyHkZHbWtdirivh0NTYQ-Y9Ro9cUQN6Txt9HFt49Qgw56ewE7UfvQuttra2tpI0GIHDUXGMVSWiSnuVesjc4GdJuO_/activities/1:1LOoYnwMp4chbJTW6ltBxMm1EwRp3j13gWgbS-qeY-Zs}

Kindly let me know if anyone has a solution for this error.

Thanks

[Wajeed-msft]

Please try the samples given in Update Message documentation.

Could you please try again by keeping only message text or attachment?

[aosolis]

This is similar to what you reported in #125. The code is trying to update a message (1 card) to something that's going to become 2 messages (text + card). That's why it's giving the error "Activity resulted into multiple skype activities".

It's a case that we're aware of and working to enable. Until then, message updates are restricted to instances that will not result in splitting. In fact, I'd recommend only text->text or card->card updates, because card->text or vice versa is also problematic. (It works, but you could see some ugly visual artifacts until the thread is refreshed.)

[register9091]

Thank you for your swift response. Do you have any example in which you can only send cards and not message+card? Since the POST call requires an activity to be send.

(We are able to update simple text message but not cards with the below code)

 Activity cardTest = new Activity();
                            cardTest.withType(ActivityTypes.MESSAGE).withRecipient(activity.from())
                                    .withId(activity.id()).withFrom(activity.recipient()).withText("TEST - 1");

                            String actId = new BotConnectorImpl(activity.serviceUrl())
                                    .sendToConversation(activity.conversation().id(), activity.id(), cardTest);

                            new Runnable() {
                                @Override
                                public void run() {
                                    try {
                                        Thread.sleep(2000);
                                        System.out.println("Sending world");
                                        new BotConnectorImpl(activity.serviceUrl()).updateConversation(
                                                activity.conversation().id(), actId, new Activity().withId(actId)
                                                        .withType(ActivityTypes.MESSAGE).withText("TEST - 2"));

[aosolis]

In your snippet above, it looks like withText() is what adds the text to the activity. Omit the call to withText("World") when creating the second activity: that way you're doing a card->card update, which should work.

[aosolis]

The snippet above is text->text. Can you share the snippet for your attempt to do a card->card update?

[register9091]

Got it working. Thanks 👍

It's a case that we're aware of and working to enable. Until then, message updates are restricted to instances that will not result in splitting. In fact, I'd recommend only text->text or card->card updates, because card->text or vice versa is also problematic. (It works, but you could see some ugly visual artifacts until the thread is refreshed.)

Kindly update / reopen the issue once this is fixed if possible or let me know if there is a channel where we could see changelogs.

[jmnsf]

Is there an update on this?