I used this link but can’t see the metadata on rasa-server: Custom Connectors Deploy and Run a Rasa Chat Bot on a custom chat interface curl --request POST --url https://localhost/rasa/webhooks/myio/webhook --header 'Content-Type: application/json' --data '{ "sender": "test_user", "text": "Hello", "metadata": {"username": "joel"} }' Copied and updated files content based on link for: addons/custom_channel.py credentials.yml rasa run --endpoints endpoint.yml --credentials.yml --debug -log-file log.txt One thing to note is that I am bypassing the response from intent -text in domain.yml and have achieved this from a database lookup. However I see that channel is required here. domain.yml responses: utter_greet: - text: Hi! I'm the default greeting. - text: Hi! I'm the custom channel greeting **channel: myio**

I have identified that curl localhost/rasa/webhooks/myio is executing @custom_webhook.route("/", methods=["GET"]) async def health(request: Request) -> HTTPResponse: return response.json({"status": "ok2"})

Just so it is clear: I want to be able to get the metadata json object passed by client into the actions.py parameters: class Chitchat(Action): def name(self) -> Text: return "action_chitchat" def run( self, dispatcher: CollectingDispatcher, tracker: Tracker, domain: Dict[Text, Any], ) -> List[Dict[Text, Any]]: I was thinking I would obtain the information from tracker object

If I change the webhook to here: @custom_webhook.route("/webhook", methods=["POST"]) async def receive(request: Request) -> HTTPResponse: sender_id = request.json.get("sender") # method to get sender_id text = request.json.get("text") # method to fetch text input_channel = self.name() # method to fetch input channel metadata = self.get_metadata(request) # method to get metadata print (metadata) collector = CollectingOutputChannel() # include exception handling await on_new_message( UserMessage( text, collector, sender_id, input_channel=input_channel, metadata=metadata, ) ) return response.json({"status": text}) #return response.json(collector.messages) I’m getting back text, but metadta is null when I try to set it in the client.

Populating metadata and retrieving in custom code

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joggerjoel (JoggerJoel) May 12, 2021, 11:17am 8

Ok I solved it, I changed:

metadata = request.json.get("metadata")

and it works

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