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Support for bot error HTTP status code

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
42/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
api

Research direction

Start by locating the Direct Line error-response handling and checking how the JSON error payload is exposed to clients. Use the provided 502 response, including httpStatusCode 404, as the expected case; done means clients can access that bot HTTP status and coverage verifies it.

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Description

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Direct Line now returns an httpStatusCode field in the error JSON accompanying HTTP 502s caused by bot timeouts/errors. Is it possible to wire this up so clients have an easy time seeing the bot's HTTP status code?

Example below illustrates a bot returning HTTP 404.


HTTP/1.1 502
...

{
  "error": {
    "code": "ServiceError",
    "message": "Failed to send activity: bot returned an error"
  },
  "httpStatusCode": 404
}
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