Conversations API: Participant leaving errors out for certain participants - twilio

The error message returned from conversation.leave() (along with conversation.removeParticipant) is:
Uncaught (in promise) Error: Transport failure: UPSTREAM_REQUEST_PARSING_FAILURE
Using this code to initialize my conversation. Here's the important snippet of it:
this.state.conversationsClient.on("conversationJoined", async (conversation: Conversation) => {
this.setState({conversation:conversation})
})
Within my ComponentUnmount:
await this.state.conversation.leave()
However the other participant in the conversation can do this without error. Is the first user not allowed to leave conversations perhaps? If so how does one signal when participants join the conversation if one of them cannot leave?

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MQTT shared subscription

With a MQTT shared subscription, the message on the subscirbed topic would only be sent to one of the subscribing clients. Then, how the other clients of the group receive the message as they also subscribe to the same topic?
With a MQTT shared subscription, the message on the subscribed topic would only be sent to one of the subscribing clients.
Correct. With a normal (non‑shared) subscription the messages are sent to ALL subscribers; with shared subscriptions they are sent to ONE subscriber.
Prior to the introduction of shared subscriptions it was difficult to handle situations where you want multiple servers (for fault tolerance, load balancing etc) but only want to process each message once. Shared subscriptions provide a simple way of accomplishing this.
Then, how the other clients of the group receive the message as they also subscribe to the same topic?
If they are subscribing to the same shared subscription (with the same ShareName) then only one will receive the message; this is by design. If you want them all to receive the message then don't use a shared subscription. Alternatively you can establish multiple subscriptions (so all subscribers receive the message but only one processes it - but note the "could") as per the spec:
If a Client has a Shared Subscription and a Non‑shared Subscription and a message matches both of them, the Client will receive a copy of the message by virtue of it having the Non‑shared Subscription. A second copy of the message will be delivered to one of the subscribers to the Shared Subscription, and this could result in a second copy being sent to this Client.
There is an interesting bug in Java Paho (1.2.5) client that prevents working with shared topics that contains wildcards (#, +) https://github.com/eclipse/paho.mqtt.java/issues/827
Long story short, this will not work:
mqttClient.subscribe("$shared/group/some_topic/#", 1, (topic, message) -> System.out.println(topic));
instead it's required to use callbacks:
mqttClient.subscribe("$shared/group/some_topic/#", 1);
mqttClient.setCallback(new MqttCallback() {
#Override
public void connectionLost(final Throwable cause) {
}
#Override
public void messageArrived(final String topic, final MqttMessage message) throws Exception {
System.out.println(topic);
}
#Override
public void deliveryComplete(final IMqttDeliveryToken token) {
}
});

How to send a message from Helix controller to participant?

I want to send a message to all Participant nodes of my Helix cluster from Controller node. I tried following piece of code to send message to all registered participants of my cluster but their registered Participant message listeners are not receiving the message notification from Helix.
Message msg = new Message(factory.getMessageTypes().get(0), msgId);
msg.setMsgId(msgId);
msg.setSrcName(hostSrc);
msg.setTgtSessionId("*");
msg.setMsgState(MessageState.NEW);
msg.getRecord().setSimpleField("TestMessage", "Message from controller");
Criteria recipientCriteria = new Criteria();
recipientCriteria.setRecipientInstanceType(InstanceType.PARTICIPANT);
recipientCriteria.setInstanceName("%"); // To all recipients
recipientCriteria.setSessionSpecific(true); // To deliver only live participants
recipientCriteria.setSessionSpecific("DEV_CLUSTER"); // To only participants of this cluster
messagingService.send(recipientCriteria,msg);
Note that, when I am sending this message there is no resource exists in the cluster.
After debugging further what I have observed is CriteriaEvaluator.evaluateCriteria(....) operation is returning an empty list which further results into 0 messages to be sent to Participants nodes.
Kindly let me know if I am missing anything here while defining my criteria for Participants.
Thanks !
Update-1: our observation on this issue is as follows:
The received message at the participant side is read by both the Participant message listener(Say L1) and the handler created through MessageHandlerFactory(Which internally creating a listener HelixtaskExecutor (Say L2)).
In case if the message is read by HelixTaskExecutor(L2) first, it then immediately deletes the Znode in Zookeeper and the additionally configured message listener(L1) doesn't receive this message.
In case if the message is first read my additional message listener i.e. L1 then in such scenarios we don't face this problem as this additionally added listener doesn't delete the Znode from ZooKeeper.
We are still not sure how can we handle this problem as we want to use both the listener and MessageHandlers but facing the same problem I stated above.
Any inputs are appreciated.

Microsoft teams messaging extension inconsistently sending a valid conversation ID to use in a graph call

I am developing a MSTeams application, and inside I use a messaging extension. Upon opening the extension, a request is fired over to my message handler, which I use an azure function to handle. Alongside the request is a payload, with details about the context (in this case the conversation or chat) of where the messaging extension was opened from.
Now, I've built up a graph URL with the conversation ID from the payload:
const id = context.req.body.conversation.id
const graphEndpoint = encodeURIComponent(`https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/me/chats/${id}/members`)
I authenticate a user by calling microsoftTeams.authentication.authenticate({...}) before I make the call, and use the token in the request.
Sometimes, this call will succeed, and return the information I want. However, the other times it will fail with a 400, telling me I had a bad request, despite it being a GET request with no body.
I notice in bad requests, that the conversation ID doesn't trail with #thread.v2 or #unq.gbl.spaces etc. I have no clue why this is so inconsistent, or if it's my fault. Any help would be appreciated.
EDIT: I have also seen that the issue only occurs when the id starts with a:, and succeeds when it starts with 19:. However, the context in which I open the messaging extension is the same each time: In a 1:1 / User:User chat.
I have previously implemented installing the bot in the conversation to get this information, but this method is very undesirable. Perhaps a side point - it seems that the conversations where I have previously installed the bot seem to return the 19: id, and everything else a:.
Here's an example of the 400 response:
{
"error": {
"code": "BadRequest",
"message": "Bad Request",
"innerError": {
"date": "2021-01-25T09:43:26",
"request-id": "3bb55aa2-e694-4c80-952c-88842f482dc1",
"client-request-id": "3bb55aa2-e694-4c80-952c-88842f482dc1"
}
}
}
The conversation id you received in the turn-context is not the chat-id. The conversation id is different from conversation id. Conversation id the id between bot and the user and chat id the id of the chat. Both are different. You cannot use conversation id to call the graph API. Please use the chat id to call graph API. You can get the chat id using list chats API.

Twilio - Using conference announce to update caller

My question: Can Twilio Announcements be used when there is only a single participant in the conference?
My Test Application: Is a simple node app that keeps a caller waiting while work is done in the background, with periodic updates on progress to the caller, before finally moving the call to a real person.
The problem: I saw Announcements and that this would excellent for my needs.
My node test app successfully dumps each incoming call into its own unique conference. I later attempt to announce an update on the background processing while the caller is waiting.
client.conferences(conferenceSid)
.update({announceUrl:'https://cccbae85.ngrok.io/twilio/announce'})
.then(result => console.log('success'))
.catch(error => console.log('conference error = ' + error));
The following results:
conference error = Error: The requested resource /2010-04-01/Accounts/ACX*/Conferences/CFb15222ac23964077e8161c819cd9dcca.json was not found
When I change this to use a conference AND participant:
client.conferences(conferenceSid)
.participants (particpantCallSid)
.update({announceUrl:'https://cccbae85.ngrok.io/twilio/announce'})
.then(result => console.log('success'))
.catch(error => console.log('conference error = ' + error));
The result is 'success', meaning the conferenceSid was accepted, but I never see any call to the announceUrl (no errors in Twilio, no attempts through ngok).
So back to my question, can Announcements be used in conferences that have a single participant, or do I need to go back to having a "bot" jump into the conference, say something, and jump back out.
OR - did I royally mess up my understanding of Announce....
Thanks!!

ActionCable unsubscribe callback not working when iOS client send "unsubscribe"

Remote iOS client successfully connects to me, send subscribe command (it works fine), but on "unsubscribe" command I get next error:
Unsubscribing from channel: {"channel":"Assessor::StationChannel", "station_id": 1}
Could not execute command from {"command"=>"unsubscribe", "identifier"=>"{\"channel\":\"Assessor::StationChannel\", \"station_id\": 1}"}) [NoMethodError - undefined method `unsubscribe_from_channel' for nil:NilClass]: /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/actioncable-5.0.0/lib/action_cable/connection/subscriptions.rb:44:in `remove_subscription' | /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/actioncable-5.0.0/lib/action_cable/connection/subscriptions.rb:40:in `remove' | /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/actioncable-5.0.0/lib/action_cable/connection/subscriptions.rb:16:in `execute_command' | /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/actioncable-5.0.0/lib/action_cable/connection/base.rb:88:in `dispatch_websocket_message' | /app/vendor/bundle/ruby/2.2.0/gems/actioncable-5.0.0/lib/action_cable/server/worker.rb:58:in `block in invoke'
Subscribe message format:
{"command": "subscribe", "identifier": "{\"channel\":\"Assessor::StationChannel\", \"station_id\": 1}"}
Unsubscribe message format:
{"command": "unsubscribe", "identifier": "{\"channel\":\"Assessor::StationChannel\", \"station_id\": 1}"}
I cannot reproduce this problem on localhost, so maybe somebody can help me?
I saw a similar error. I was trying to unsubscribe via the client (JS). I eventually figured out it was because the javascript to .remove(subscription) takes the subscription and not the subscription identifier.
This is how I got it to work without error. Perhaps it will help you find out why you are getting the error from the server side.
subscription = App.cable.subscriptions.subscriptions[0]
App.cable.subscriptions.remove(subscription);
(Note, I'm just pulling the first subscription from the array, TODO: Search for the subscription I want to remove)
Here is the bug I was seeing and how I eventually found the source code/answer. I ran these from the webclient console:
App.cable.subscriptions.create({channel: "RoomChannel", room_id: 2})
That line works and I get a "... is transmitting the subscription confirmation" on stdout for rails s
App.cable.subscriptions.remove({channel: "RoomChannel", room_id: 2})
That line blows up, yells at my kids, and insults my wife which looks like:
[NoMethodError - undefined method `unsubscribe_from_channel' for nil:NilClass]: /usr/local/lib64/ruby/gems/2.3.0/gems/actioncable-5.0.0.1/lib/action_cable/connection/subscriptions.rb:44:in `remove_subscription'
I also noted the following line before the crash.
Unsubscribing from channel:
The code to produce that is: logger.info "Unsubscribing from channel: #{data['identifier']}". Which means it wasn't finding the data['identifier']. So I started debugging and I see that line 88 of base.rb in actioncable only gets {"command":"unsubscribe"} and not something like {"command":"unsubscribe", "identifier":" (channel name here)}
Which brought me to action_cable.js. (I would have started here, but I hate JS.). Here was my problem: function(subscription). I was sending the identifier and not the subscription object.
Subscriptions.prototype.remove = function(subscription) {
this.forget(subscription);
if (!this.findAll(subscription.identifier).length) {
this.sendCommand(subscription, "unsubscribe");
}
return subscription;
};
App.cable.subscriptions.create({channel: "RoomChannel", room_id: 2}) returns a subscription object you have to pass that into the remove function
var subscription = App.cable.subscriptions.create({channel: "RoomChannel", room_id: 2});
Then later
App.cable.subscriptions.remove(subscription);
After several tries I eventually figured it out. Late reply but this worked for me hope it does for you.
App["identifier"].disconnected() #e.g App["chat_4"].disconnect()
=> YourChannel stopped streaming from chat_4 #rails terminal
Above is the line to stop the streaming and below is how you subscribe to the channel
App['chat' + id] = App.cable.subscriptions.create({channel:
'YourChannel', chat_id: id}, {
disconnected: function () {
App.cable.subscriptions.remove(this)
},
)}
I know this is an old question, but I suffered from the same issue. None of the answers above worked for me and in fact, at least in Rails 5.0.1, they are incorrect. It is a frontend issue all right, but here's why it doesn't matter whether you call App.yourChannelName.unsubscribe() or App.yourChannelName.remove(App.yourChannelName)
Eg. if you have something like this (example code is in coffeescript, so ignore the lack of vars and other stuff from vanilla JS):
App.yourChannel = App.cable.subscriptions.create({channel: 'YourChannel', id: id})
...
// do stuff, execute callbacks, whatnot
...
// try to execute unsubscribe
App.yourChannel.unsubscribe()
The .unsubscribe() is a method on Subscription prototype which only does return this.consumer.subscriptions.remove(this)
The this.consumer.subscriptions returns the instance of your subscription, in example above, it would be App.yourChannel and calls .remove method with the instance of Subscription - ie. with App.yourChannel
So App.yourChannel.unsubscribe() is the same as calling App.cable.subscriptions.remove(App.yourChannel) (or whichever variable you choose to store the instance of Subscription in.
I have also been seeing the same error as OP, except that in my case, it was caused by App.yourChannel.unsubscribe() being called two times - the first time it was called immediately after I received specific data via the channel and the second time was due to a custom cleanup being run in a specific scenario before the App.yourChannel was re-subscribed.
So if you see a similar error, I suggest you look at the server logs.
You'll probably see something like
Registered connection (some-id) <-- initial subscription
YourChannel is transmitting the subscription confirmation
...
// other stuff while user is subscribed to the channel
...
Unsubscribing from channel: {"channel":"YourChannel","id":"some-id"} <-- initial unsubscribe call
YourChannel stopped streaming from your_channel_some-id
// some other requests potentially, perhaps some DB queries
...
// there are no requests to subscribe to the channel with the some-id, eg. you won't see this
// Registered connection (some-id)
// YourChannel is transmitting the subscription confirmation
Unsubscribing from channel: {"channel":"YourChannel","id":"some-id"} <-- duplicated unsubscribe call
Could not execute command from {"command"=>"unsubscribe", "identifier"=>"{\"channel\":\"YourChannel\",\"id\":\"some-id\"}"}) [NoMethodError - undefined method `unsubscribe_from_channel' for nil:NilClass]:
Basically, the user subscribes, unsubscribes, then tries to unsubscribe again (even though they are not subscribed to that channel anymore)

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