Botframework-solutions: Creation of the Virtual Assistant duplicate some classes

[tommyJimmy87]

When I create the Virtual Assistant or also the skills I have some .ts file duplicated with the _ as prefix in the file, i.e. _dialogBot.ts. And when I run the bot it' s going to crash because of duplicated Classes.

Is there some reason why are being created ?

[Batta32]

Hi @tommyJimmy87,

Thanks for reporting this issue.

In which _OS_ are you executing the generator?

Those files with the _ prefix that you mentioned, are recognized as template files by yeoman, which replaces their name, location or any placeholder inside those files.

As a workaround, you can delete those files with the _ prefix and build the project, meanwhile we will research about it.

[tommyJimmy87]

Hi @Batta32 ,

Thanks, yes I already deleted them. :)

Currently I'm developing with MacOS High Sierra , version: 10.13.4.
The yeoman version is : 3.1.0
And the botbuilder-assistant generator's version is : v1.0.5

[iMicknl]

I did face the same issues this week, with the latest versions retrieved from npm (public). Also on macOS.

[Batta32]

Hi @tommyJimmy87, @iMicknl!

We noticed that this issue is related to macOS and we are researching about it.

Meanwhile, you can use the samples instead of using the generator, because it's a solution created using the generator 😊.

[tommyJimmy87]

@Batta32 Do you think I have to migrate to the samples ? I mean if is just the duplicates I can just delete them if there are no other problem (after deleting the duplicates the skill or the va looks working), but if you think that could have other issue I will use the samples.

[Batta32]

@tommyJimmy87, if you want to keep using your generated Virtual Assistant and Skill it's okay, both workarounds are correct, just to consider that if you are blocked you can try with the available samples.

Also, we narrowed the issue to the wildcard search that in _Windows_ and _macOS_ are different, we are implementing a fix for this changing the functionality of file's replacement with _ prefix.

If you find another issue using macOS, please don't hesitate to create a new issue 😊.

[Batta32]

Hi there!
We solved this issue in #2111 merged in master.

Tomorrow a new preview version (1.0.6-preview71) of the generator-botbuilder-assistant will be published in myget, you can download and test it!

npm uninstall --global generator-botbuilder-assistant
npm install --global [email protected] --registry https://botbuilder.myget.org/F/aitemplates/npm

[tommyJimmy87]

@Batta32
Hi,

For the problem I had that version solved the issue, but now I have other errors now with tslint :) .
I guess is still not a very stable version.

[Batta32]

Hi @tommyJimmy87

We published a new stable version of the generator-botbuilder-assistant (version 1.0.6) in myget!

npm install -g [email protected] --registry https://botbuilder.myget.org/F/aitemplates/npm