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Chating with your microsoft bot framework via Postman

I am quite new to Bot Framework and exploring the solutions.

I am trying to use microsoft bot framework in an android app (and a python flask app after that) as an API call. For this I want to figure out how to send a message to my bot and receive the answer via postman

Right now my bot is up and running on teams and webchat. I am using bot service to make use of the microsoft bot framework. My app is running on Heroku and the bot is hosted on Azure.

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I have checked the direct line channel on bot service, but this is returning an iframe for a webchat and i would like instead to send my message programmaticly via python, java, etc as an api call enter image description here

I have also checked stackoverflow question regarding the v3 bot framework and have tried the following : How to connect my python bot to microsoft bot connector

Send message from Postman to Microsoft Bot

https://pypi.org/project/botframework-connector/

1° I got an access to my bearer token following the second stackoverflow url : 

{
   "token_type": "Bearer",
   "expires_in": 3600,
   "ext_expires_in": 3600,
   "access_token": "eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiL***********************************ObNWg"
}

2° Then providing postman with the bearer token with this url https://directline.botframework.com/v3/directline/conversations/

and this json raw body : 

{
    "type": "message",
    "from": {
        "id": "user1"
    },
    "text": "hello"
}

this is returning : 

{
  "error": {
    "code": "BadArgument",
    "message": "Missing token or secret"
  }
}

As mentioned I am new to this, so any insights on the above would be greatly appreciated!

Solution

  • Ok nevermind, the answer I was looking is available on this tutorial : https://thewebspark.com/2018/04/15/directlineapi-testing-with-custom-client-and-postman-microsoft-bot-framework/.

    It works perfectly on my side.

    1) you use your direct line token with Bearer <token>, using POST request on https://directline.botframework.com/v3/directline/conversations.

    you get a new token and a conversation_ID

    2)Then you use a GET request on https://directline.botframework.com/v3/directline/conversations/conversation_ID/activities

    with your new token as Bearer <token> and your json body as : 

    {
    "type": "message",
    "from": {
        "id": "user1"
    },
    "text": "hello"
}

    That's all!