This repository is a Rest API for the BotFlow.

We use Docker and Docker-Compose for development environment. You only need this two tools to run this project.

To start the django server and the mongo database, follow the instructions bellow:

cd BotFlowAPI
sudo docker-compose up --build

After a small slice of time the django server will be ready at http://localhost:8000/api/v1/

To stop the containers, run:

sudo docker-compose down

or, to remove the volumes (and erase the database):

sudo docker-compose down --volumes

If there is no previously made database, there will be created a default project with examples of utters, intents and stories. The content used to populate the database is contained in src/api/fixtures/initial.json. If no seed is necessary, edit runserver.sh to remove the seed script call:

#! /bin/bash

cd /src
python3 manage.py makemigrations
python3 manage.py migrate
# python3 manage.py shell < populate_models.py
python3 manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

All the persistent data is stored on a non relational database (mongo db), we choose this option because our data are like documents and make more sense store them as json.

Our models are, project, story, intent, utter, a project is an abstraction for a new bot project that will be managed by the BotFlow, the other abstractions are like the normal terminologies of a rasa bot.

Since the API follows the REST architecture, those are the available endpoints:

• GET, PUT /api/v1/projects
• GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE /api/v1/projects/:project_id

• GET, PUT /api/v1/projects/:project_id/intents
• GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE /api/v1/projects/:project_id/intents/:intent_id
• GET /api/v1/projects/:project_id/intents/:intent_id/example

• GET, PUT /api/v1/projects/:project_id/utters
• GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE /api/v1/projects/:project_id/utters/:utter_id
• GET /api/v1/projects/:project_id/utters/:utter_id/example

• GET, PUT /api/v1/projects/:project_id/stories
• GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE /api/v1/projects/:project_id/stories/:story_id

To download the bot-readable content files, send a GET request to:

• /api/v1/files/:project_id/zip/

The used JSON format can be found in Django Rest Framework web interface: http://localhost:8000/api/v1/

The entire BotFlow platform is developed under the license GPL3