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Plugin Watson

For more information, refer to GitHub.

What Does This Plugin Do?​

This plugin allows you to integrate Watson Assistant v2 in your Botonic project.

Once installed within your project, this plugin will send the user input to a workspace and receive a response.

The plugin retrieves the call results to enhance the input object. You can then use this data in your routes and actions.

Example of an input object received from a user:

{
  type: "text",
  data: "I want to return this jacket."
}

Example of the same input object after being processed by this plugin:

{
  type: 'text',
  data: 'I want to return this jacket.',
  intent: 'return-product',
  confidence: 0.9556,
  intents: [{ intent: 'return-product', confidence: 0.9556 }]
  entities: [{ entity: 'product', location: [22, 28], value: 'jacket', confidence: 1 }],
}

Setup​

  1. Install the plugin from npm (or yarn):
npm i --save @botonic/plugin-watson
  1. Add it to the src/plugins.js file by using the following options from Watson:
  • apikey
  • url
  • assistant_id
  • version (optional)
export const plugins = [
  {
    id: 'watson',
    resolve: require('@botonic/plugin-watson'),
    options: {
      apikey: 'apikey', <!-- pragma: allowlist secret-->
      url: 'url',
      assistant_id: 'assistant_id',
      version: 'version',
    },
  },
]

Use​

You can use it in your routes like any other NLU plugins:

export const routes = [{ intent: 'return-product', action: ReturnProduct }]