Custom rest channel with channel-specific responses?

Rasa Open Source
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Hello, I wonder how it is possible to use the “channel-specific” responses in combination with a custom rest channel. My case is that I want to connect a Mycroft assistant skill (uses rest webhook) with a Rasa chatbot. When I talk via Mycroft to Rasa, the Rasa bot should return Mycroft-specific responses.

So far, I understand how I can create a custom rest INPUT channel, but building the corresponding output is not clear to me. Could anyone point me in the right direction or has an example code?

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From the docs:

Make sure the value of the channel key matches the value returned by the name() method of your input channel.

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Hi, I double checked that already. Its both “mycroft” (lowcase). I tought that the channel-specific response depends on the output channel name which would make more sense to me too as the response is an output.

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Can you show me your custom connector?

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I attached the file: mycroft_channel.py (5.7 KB) It is a copy of the REST connector with a minor change. The file also contains the curl command I used to send a message to a local Rasa server. The responses look like this (I used trial and error for the channel name to fix the issue). The bot answers to the curl command with [{"recipient_id":"default","text":"Hello."}]

utter_greet:
  - text: "Hello from the custom channel"
    channel: "mycroft"
  - text: "Hello from the custom channel2"
    channel: "queue"
  - text: Hello.
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This is weird, you’re implementing everything correctly (I think) :confused: