Sending additional data to RASA server in REST request

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Hi everybody! I am trying to send and access additional data aside from a text message to RASA via a REST call but am unable to do so. The following is the usual request body for sending and receiving text messages: { “sender”: “default”, “message”: “hi” }

I want to send some and retrieve some extra data and have tried the following request body. { “sender”: “default”, “message”: “custom payload”, “data”:{ “someData”: “some data” } }

I tried to find it in the tracker object but have not found it.

So far I have failed. Is there a way to achieve this or is this a limitation currently? Thank you for your time.

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You can supply metadata on the rest call and then retrieve that in action_session_start. There’s an example of this here.

To supply the metadata via REST, here’s an example payload:

{
  "sender": "test_user", // sender ID of the user sending the message
  "message": "Hi there!"
  "metadata": { 
    "username": "stephens",
    "postal-code": "71083",
    "city": "Herrenberg"
    }
}