Bot Dispatch Runner

The Bot Dispatch runner is an example how to use the Bot Dispatch CLI in a programmatic way.

Features

• Automatic retrieval of the Dispatch CLI tool with npm
• References the closed source Dll's from the example project
• Runs the dispatch tool as new process
• supports runtime timeout
• supports async/await

Installation

• clone the directory
• dotnet build the solution

Usage

Console Application

• check BotDispatch.NPM
• added all references with hints in the .csproj

Azure Function

• check BotDispatch.Function
• added all references in the csproj too, and additional path to the json

var workingDirectory = Path.Join(Path.GetTempPath(), "dispatch");
var dispatchRunner = new DispatchRunner(workingDirectory);
var result = await dispatchRunner.RunDispatchAsync("-h");

Implementation details

BotDispatch.NPM has an additional build step to call npm and restore botdispatch npm package. As the target environment might not have node.js installed, the Dlls are copied to the output of the referenced project.

License

MIT