Any Java Script experts (or competent people) here?

quarky

I have having an issue and getting the following error:

error too many calls to session.enddialog()

Does that mean anything to anyone?

I can provide more info, but thought I would ask first..

monquixote

You are going to need to provide a lot more context than that!

Maynehead

Have you tried asking Google?

The first hit seems promising https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder/issues/167

quarky

I am looking at the MS Botbuilder framework, and trying to get a fairly simple bot to answer questions that has been passed through LUIS.AI.

So here is my app.js, and the prompt file is here.

The LUIS bit I am fine with, so if I ask LUIS "when did my gas contract start", it returns this, but app.js returns the session.enddialog() error.

So I think the problem is being generated in the answerQuestion function, but not sure the best way to troubleshoot it..

I guess I can start by returning something to the console to determine where I am (which function or where), but not quite sure how to do that in js.

quarky

Maynehead said:

Have you tried asking Google?

The first hit seems promising https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder/issues/167

Holy shit that was a good guess.

Yeah I looked at that, but not sure if that is my exact problem (he is not using prompts). To be fair, I know a little more now than I did when I first looked at that link a few days ago, but probably need to go through it again.

quarky

Still not getting very far. I guess the problem code is botbuilder specific though rather than JS.

How can I put a simple message back in JS though so at least I know exactly where the error is being generated? Something like printf in C or write-host in Powershell?

roundthebend

quarky said:

Still not getting very far. I guess the problem code is botbuilder specific though rather than JS.

How can I put a simple message back in JS though so at least I know exactly where the error is being generated? Something like printf in C or write-host in Powershell?

console.log

Maynehead

quarky said:

Still not getting very far. I guess the problem code is botbuilder specific though rather than JS.

How can I put a simple message back in JS though so at least I know exactly where the error is being generated? Something like printf in C or write-host in Powershell?

You can stick some alert("some text") calls in various parts of the code to do some quick debugging.

PolarityMan

The browsers all provide js debugging these days btw

quarky

Thanks for the responses.

What is a good free (and lightweight if possible) editor/ISE to use for Java Script?

Maynehead

There is always Eclipse of course, but for simple editing the easiest way is to use Chrome developer tools. Just press F12 whilst in Chrome to launch it. Great for debugging any JS code that's running in the browser, and you can even change the code and see the changes reflected on the page in real time.

quarky

Thanks!

monquixote

Use visual studio code