I am creating a RASA chatbot which makes a rest call to another application in action. This chatbot will be used by more than 50 users . How can i handle the delay in getting response from external call. If suppose a user A is chatting with the bot and that rest call takes some fivemins to complete the task and User b inbetween initiates another action , how can i handle it

Hi there @hemamalini , requests in rasa core are currently synchronous, so unfortunately I don’t think there’s a way to do that quite yet. However we have impemented async on master and it will be part of the next release :slight_smile:

Thanks a lot. Waiting for the next release. Can i make rasabot keep listening to a webhook and post the response when any event occurs. In my application , I am making a Rest API call as a part of action and i wont get any response from the call as it would take some minutes to complete the task . So i have a webhook end point which will post the event when it is completed. So in my action , after calling Rest api , i would listen to the webhook and if i get response i will send the response back in the chatbot. Is this possible

Hi… Does Rasa 1.0 can handle async actions? Do i have to use only multiple rasa action server to solve the issue.

@hemamalini do you mean e.g. answering utterances while long actions are running? If so, it’s not handled quite yet, but we are already aware of this and are working on a fix.

Also,is it possible to trigger other actions for the same user

What do you mean by that, at the same time?

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hemamalini (Hemamalini) June 20, 2019, 4:45pm 9

Yes…one action is long running and is it possible for server to do another action

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