Robot Detection on Form submit action

Question

I am using Sitecore 9.0.2, I am using a custom Update Contact submit action in forms to update facet in xDB. Now before updating contact in xDB, I want to check that if user is Robot or not, so for that I have checked Sitecore.Analytics.Pipelines.CommitSession.Robots processor, it is using ContactClassification.IsRobot function and passing if args.Session.Contact.System.Classification parameter. Below is code:

public class Robots : CommitSessionProcessor
{
    public override void Process(CommitSessionPipelineArgs args)
    {
        Assert.ArgumentNotNull(args, "args");
        Assert.IsNotNull(args.Session.Contact, "args.Context.Contact should not be null");
        if (ContactClassification.IsRobot(args.Session.Contact.System.Classification) && AnalyticsSettings.Robots.IgnoreRobots)
        {
            ContactManager expr_58 = Assert.ResultNotNull<ContactManager>(Factory.CreateObject("tracking/contactManager", true) as ContactManager);
            expr_58.SaveContactToCollectionDb(args.Session.Contact);
            expr_58.RemoveFromSession(args.Session.Contact.ContactId);
            Log.Debug("[Analytics]: The CommitSession pipeline was aborted. Visit was classified as robot and visits made by robots are configured to be ignored.", this);
            args.AbortPipeline();
        }
    }
}

<processor type="Sitecore.Analytics.Pipelines.CommitSession.Robots, Sitecore.Analytics" patch:source="Sitecore.Analytics.Tracking.Database.config"/>

I am trying to use same function on UpdateContact but I am not sure what parameter I need to pass in IsRobot function. Below is my submit action:

public class UpdateContact : SubmitActionBase<UpdateContactData>
{

    public UpdateContact(ISubmitActionData submitActionData) : base(submitActionData)
    {
    }

    protected override bool Execute(UpdateContactData data, FormSubmitContext formSubmitContext)
    {
    }
}

Can anybody suggest me what parameter I need to pass instead of args.Session.Contact.System.Classification?

Answer 1

You still need to send the Classification stored on the current Contact, but how you get it is a little different:

if (Tracker.Current?.Session?.Contact?.System != null)
{
    ContactClassification.IsRobot(Tracker.Current.Session.Contact.System.Classification)
}

This will get the current session's contact and use that classification.

Further reading: how a visitor is classified as a robot

https://doc.sitecore.com/developers/90/sitecore-experience-platform/en/robot-detection-overview.html