Allow follow-up questions to a skill about talkify HOT 4 CLOSED

How might this work with persisted context? In real world, context will be persisted somewhere in a redis database. This means that as of now, the mapping will have to be relied upon the skill name.

Also, when a followUp flag is set, should the response automatically be marked final or can multiple skills mark their own followUps? How will this scale to multiple responses?

Potentially, upon a multiple response to multiple followups, the bot could split the response into a stack and then pass the response one by one to each of the followup skills who can then decide what to take off of the stack.

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Mapping is relied upon the skill name.
Response is automatically marked as final.

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How can a skill release a follow-up? Think about the following conversation:

YOU:[1]> I'd like to make a payment
BOT:[2]> Sure! What's your payment method? <----------- Lock acquired
YOU:[3]> You know what, nevermind.
BOT:[4]> No problem                <----------- Lock naturally released

Here the natural locking works quite well. However, it does not for the following:

YOU:[1]> I'd like to make a payment
BOT:[2]> Sure! What's your payment method? <----------- Lock acquired
YOU:[3]> Actually, what's my balance?
BOT:[4]> It is £350.00. <----------- Lock manually released, sentence gets re-evaluated.

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In case 2, the skill will have to set a custom message to the response.message object and finish the execution like so:

response.message = new Message('ReevalRequested', 'Cannot process this message. Irrelavent to the skill.');
return response.final();

The code handling the bot, with the final callback to the resolve method could interpret the message and call the bot back for re-evaluation.

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