Custom Activity Editor

[tonyanziano]

Custom Activity Editor

Summary

Adds a new option to the "Conversation -> Send activity" menu that opens a dialog with an embedded JSON editor to allow the user to send custom activity payloads to their bot through the Emulator.

Includes a JSON schema based on the Bot Framework activity documentation in the OBI repo.

The JSON editor validates the content of the editor against this schema to ensure that no malformed activity payloads can be sent. (Can refine this as it gets more use.)

Fixes #2174, #1700

Possible features

• Preset activity "templates" selectable from a dropdown to populate the editor with boilerplate keys for different activity types (message, event, etc.)
• Postman-esque collections feature that allows you to save and load previously sent activity payloads

Screenshots

Using the editor

Validation

Theming

[coveralls]

Coverage decreased (-0.1%) to 67.785% when pulling 791de99 on toanzian/feat/custom-activity into 402ac60 on main.

[srinaath]

Looks great! Just minor comments.

[jrpavoncello]

Thank you so much for this feature! This makes development so much faster since we would normally have to hook our local bot into another local application just to develop/test event related features.

[tonyanziano]

Glad I could help!