Practical Bot Development by Szymon Rozga

Author:Szymon Rozga
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: Apress, Berkeley, CA

© Szymon Rozga 2018

Szymon RozgaPractical Bot Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3540-9_7

7. Building an Integrated Bot Experience

Szymon Rozga1

(1)Port Washington, New York, USA

So far, we have built a pretty good LUIS application that has been evolving over time. We also utilized the Bot Builder dialog engine that employs our natural language models, extracts the relevant intents and entities from user utterances, and contains conditional logic around many of the different permutations of inputs coming into the bot. But our code does not really do anything. How do we make it do something useful and real? Throughout the book, we’ve been exploring the idea of a calendar bot. This means we need to integrate with some kind of calendar API. For the purposes of this book, we’re going to integrate with Google’s Calendar API. After that is set up, we will explore how to integrate those calls into the bot flow. In this day and age of OAuth, we are not going to spend time collecting a user’s name and password in our chat window. That would not be secure. Instead, we will implement a three-legged OAuth flow using the Google OAuth libraries. We’ll then go ahead and make the changes in our code to support communication with the Google Calendar API. At the end of the chapter, we’ll end up with a bot that we can use to create appointments and view entries in our calendar!

Note, the code for this chapter is available as part of the code repository. Throughout the bot code and the code in this book, you’ll find use of many libraries. One of the more used ones is Underscore. Underscore is a nifty library that provides a series of useful utility functions, especially around collections.

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