Using questionary in action server

Rasa Open Source
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I am using the questionary module from Tom Bocklisch as part of an action in my action server. My environment is dockerized, i.e. I am using separate containers for NLU, Core and core_sdk.

The following code works perfectly when I run the basic code as a standalone script from rasa_core. However when I put it as an action in the action server running core_sdk, it fails.

def run(self, dispatcher, tracker, domain):
    acc = tracker.get_slot('account')
    dev_key = requests.get('https://xxxx', timeout=5.0) 
    
    questions = []

    api_url = 'https://xxxx/token/' + dev_key 
    api_key = requests.get(api_url, timeout=5.0)
    field_data_url = 'https://xxxx/fields/' + api_key + '/' + 'Account'
    fields = requests.get(field_data_url).json()
    field_list = fields['Object']

    for flds in field_list:
        if flds['IsRequired']:
            q_item = {'type': 'text', 'name': flds['FieldName'], 'message': flds['LabelText']}
            questions.append(q_item)
    answers = qs.prompt(questions)
    #SlotSet('account_fields', answers)
    return answers

I guess it has something to do with interacting with CLI app over http but I am not sure how to deal with it. Any help would be highly appreciated.

Thanks

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The action server is run independently of rasa core. questionary is used to request input from the user: this means your action server is waiting for user input: if you are not providing any input there, your action will never complete. You can not use the library this way to prompt the chatbot user for input.