botfarm

BotFarm

At current moment, package not ready to be reused, that will be fixed soon

The Library still in an active development, so don't hesitate to propose changes and new features.

Glossary

• BMS - Bot Management System
• Theme - a factory that produces a basic "skeleton" of the chatbot.
• Plugin - a component that integrates extra features into "skeleton"

Introduction

The BotFarm project is an attempt to provide a BMS solution. Major features of this project:

• composer for chatbots, the bot composed from themes and plugins;
• ability to restore and restart internal state and configured bots after reboot;
• internal "master" bot that manages and configures chatbots, available only from system console;
• pure javascript stack, LokiJS used as an storage

Usage scenario

Important! this diagram describes only a vision on first version of the BMS, not an actual state

• prepare package.json
• prepare HTTPS certificates (required by Microsoft Bot Connector)
• run npm install
• run npm start
• type next commands in console:
  • refresh modules - to discover module;
  • settings - you will be asked about HTTPS certificates;
  • add hello-world-bot base-skype-theme hello-world, you will be asked for connector credentials (app_id, app_password);
  • bot ready
  • type status
  • in report you will find information about exposed REST endpoint of the bot, use it for configuration Bot Framework Dashboard

In Details

Context Diagram

Build Sequence Diagram

Important! this diagram describes only a vision on first version of the BMS, not an actual state

Changelog:

• 0.0.3 - basic version of bot composer prepared