Proactive Activities

The BotBuilder proactive message flow requires storing a conversation reference. In Teams SDK, we expose a send method in the App class, almost identical to the one passed into our activity handlers through our context. This method accepts a conversation_id, so storing just that is enough!

Diff

-   from botbuilder.core import TurnContext
-   from botbuilder.integration.aiohttp import CloudAdapter, ConfigurationBotFrameworkAuthentication
-   from botbuilder.schema import ChannelAccount, ConversationAccount, ConversationReference
+   from microsoft.teams.apps import App

-   adapter = CloudAdapter(ConfigurationBotFrameworkAuthentication(config))
+   app = App()

-   conversation_reference = ConversationReference(
-       service_url="...",
-       bot=ChannelAccount(...),
-       channel_id="msteams",
-       conversation=ConversationAccount(...),
-       user=ChannelAccount(...)
-   )
-
-   async def send_proactive(turn_context: TurnContext):
-       await turn_context.send_activity("proactive hello")
-
-   await adapter.continue_conversation(
-       conversation_reference,
-       send_proactive,
-   )
+   await app.send("your-conversation-id", "proactive hello")

BotBuilder

from botbuilder.core import TurnContext
from botbuilder.integration.aiohttp import CloudAdapter, ConfigurationBotFrameworkAuthentication
from botbuilder.schema import ChannelAccount, ConversationAccount, ConversationReference

adapter = CloudAdapter(ConfigurationBotFrameworkAuthentication(config))

conversation_reference = ConversationReference(
    service_url="...",
    bot=ChannelAccount(...),
    channel_id="msteams",
    conversation=ConversationAccount(...),
    user=ChannelAccount(...)
)

async def send_proactive(turn_context: TurnContext):
    await turn_context.send_activity("proactive hello")

await adapter.continue_conversation(
    conversation_reference,
    send_proactive
)

Teams SDK

from microsoft.teams.apps import App

app = App()

await app.send("your-conversation-id", "proactive hello")