Azure chatbot with TU Delft API

Goal

Create a multi channel chatbot. The bot ask your name, your building and the number of requested places. To answer the user the bot uses the Tu-Delft web REST API.

Steps

Phase 1: install the demo bot and test!

1. Create a Azure account (More info)

2. Go to https://portal.azure.com

3. Create a bot in the portal

4. Choice a name for the bot and create the bot. (Auto generate keys is highly recommend)
5. Go to your bot 'blade' by Bot Services and select your bot.
6. Go to build and open online editor

7. Delete all files
8. Go to the Git-page and clone

https://github.com/JoostVanVelthoven/FindTuDelftWorkspaceBot  

Phase 2: Ask more questions to your users

9. Go to the explorer-tab and change /dialog/RootDialog.cs
10. Ask the user his name, his desired building and the number of required workplaces. Repost the users input.
11. Open the console tab and build the app by running the command:

build.cmd

12. Go to back to the portal. Test your bot in the 'Test in Web Chat'-blade. To reset a session use: /deleteprofile

13. In the portal go to Channels. Register Skype as a channel.

14. Open Skype and test the channel.

Phase 3: Explore the API

15. Now it's time to use the TU-Delft API! Because debugging Microsoft bots is time consuming we use a test console application (ApiTestConsole). Download the source from this repo. (Because of time limitations, the REST API is already implemented in the solution). Try to filter the data.

Phase 4: Integrate API and bot

17. With this experience, it is time to implement the API in the bot. Migrate all the code from the console to the bot. (of course using the online editor)
18. Done!