External API Not Working for v11

[clarence-d]

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Botpress version: 11

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I have installed botpress using the installer for v11, calling an external api did not work when the sample codes from documentation is used.

The error I got is 'axios is not defined'. I tried the import and the require() methods but it does not solve the issue. Does anyone have a simple example code because I can't find one. The one in the documentation seems incomplete.

My target is to simply call an api from a webservice (it is a simple GET, no parameters needed) and push that value out as a reply from the chatbot.

[EFF]

@clarence-d
Can you provide a code example showing how you're trying to call your external API (so I can help you) Are you using custom actions or hooks ?

I went ahead and tried it out successfully using hooks & a quote of the day api.

const axios = require('axios')

axios.get("https://quotes.rest/qod").then(res => {
  console.log("hello after incoming quote ***** \n", res.data.contents.quotes[0].quote, "\n ********")
})

here's my debugging output

15:37:58.305 Transition Condition "true" OK for "END"
15:37:58.306 DialogEngine Flow ended.
hello after incoming quote ***** 
 One does not accumulate but eliminate .
It is not daily increase but daily
decrease. The height of cultivation
always runs to simplicity. 
 ********

Please can you point out what misled you in the docs so we can fix it.

[clarence-d]

@EFF
hi,
I am using custom actions. I created the action in '\data\global\actions\builtin' folder.
I also want to correct above that I did not install botpress, I just downloaded the zipped binaries and extracted then run bp.exe. I also cannot debug direct from the codes because there are errors building from source code which is another issue I am having.

I started out by doing the same thing as 'incrementNumberOfConversations' (it works) and modified it using the code from this doc https://botpress.io/docs/recipes/apis/#docsNav. I just modified it to return e.message from catch and after running this, I got the "axios is not defined" error.

Then I tried referring to this doc https://botpress.io/docs/modules/api-endpoint/. This time, I got "Cannot read property 'get' of undefined".

I have the same issue as these posts where I tried all of the solutions in the replies but still no luck.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53513868/unable-to-use-external-api-on-botpress-axios
https://help.botpress.io/t/axios-botpress/667/10

Right now, my code is simply like this (I get "Cannot read property 'get' of undefined")

/**

• For Testing Api Calls
• @title For testing purpose
• @category Storage
• @author Me
• @param {string} output - The state variable to output the count to
  */

const testEndpointCall = async output => {

//const axiosConfig = bp.http.getAxiosConfigForBot('welcome')
try {
const result = await bp.axios.get('=MYCUSTOMENDPOINT=')
temp[output] = 200;

} catch (e) {
temp[output] = e.message;
}
};

return testEndpointCall(args.output);

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I tried using the code you provided. (I get Module "axios" not found. Tried these locations: "C:\Users\clarence\Downloads\botpress-ce-v1130-win-x64\modules.cache\moduledcfd05cb591d813753b1acb3746659b8dfedb8da3e4d934ad476e28886e07e06, C:\Users\clarence\Downloads\botpress-ce-v1130-win-x64\data\global\actions\builtin")

/**

• For Testing Api Calls
• @title For testing purpose
• @category Storage
• @author Me
• @param {string} output - The state variable to output the count to
  */

const testEndpointCall = async output => {
//const axiosConfig = bp.http.getAxiosConfigForBot('welcome')

try {
const axios = require('axios')

axios.get("https://quotes.rest/qod").then(res => {
temp[output] = 200;
console.log("hello after incoming quote ***** \n", res.data.contents.quotes[0].quote, "\n ********")
})

} catch (e) {
temp[output] = e.message;
}

};

return testEndpointCall(args.output);

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Thanks for the reply

[clarence-d]

Will wait for the nightly build and check this. As of now, there is only the build until Dec. 24th 2018.

[EFF]

@clarence-d fixed with our next release 11.4. Another step towards 11.x stability.