Send some data back from the custom action endpoint to the bot main thread

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Hi, I want to send some extra information about the components that needs to be used while replying to a message. Building a bot for facebook messenger, how do I pass additional data that can be used to build the components.

Initially tried writing a custom action script in nodejs and sent an extra key along with the response

	var response = {
    		responses: [{
    			text: 'Please wait. Our team will get in touch with you shortly.'
    		}],
    		components: [{
    			button: null
    		}]
    	};

But it doesn’t show up in the agent.handle_text() the reply only shows

[{'recipient_id': '1440559129369220', 'text': 'Please wait. Our team will get in touch with you shortly.'}]

This doesn’t have the component key I sent from the action server.

Later I used events for the same

	var response = {
            events: [{
                event: "slot",
                name: "buttons",
                value: "yes/no"
            }],
    		responses: [{
    			text: 'Please wait. Our team will get in touch with you shortly.'
    		}]
    	};

But that doesn’t help either, what I want to do is send some extra information to the main thread which is written in python.

Please help!