Issue-2812 - Allow overridden converse methods to accept messages

mycroft/skills/skill_manager.py

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ import os
 from glob import glob
 from threading import Thread, Event, Lock
 from time import sleep, time, monotonic
+from inspect import signature
 
 from mycroft.api import is_paired
 from mycroft.enclosure.api import EnclosureAPI
@@ -445,7 +446,11 @@ class SkillManager(Thread):
                 try:
                     utterances = message.data['utterances']
                     lang = message.data['lang']
-                    result = skill_loader.instance.converse(utterances, lang)
+                    # check the signature of a converse method to either pass a message or not
+                    if len(signature(skill_loader.instance.converse).parameters) == 3:
+                        result = skill_loader.instance.converse(utterances, lang, message)
+                    else:
+                        result = skill_loader.instance.converse(utterances, lang)
                     self._emit_converse_response(result, message, skill_loader)
                 except Exception:
                     error_message = 'exception in converse method'