Bot Project

Bot project is the launcher project for the bots written in declarative form (JSON), using the Composer, for the Bot Framework SDK. They follow pattern defined in OBI format.

Instructions for setting up the Bot Project runtime

The Bot Project is a regular Bot Framework SDK V4 project. Before you can launch it from the emulator, you need to make sure you can run the bot.

Prerequisite:

• Install .Netcore 2

Commands:

• from root folder
• cd BotProject
• cd CSharp
• dotnet restore // for the package updates
• dotnet build // build
• dotnet run // start the bot
• It will start a web server and listening at http://localhost:3979.

Test bot

• You can set you emulator to connect to http://localhost:3979/api/messages.

config your bot

This setup is required for local testing of your Bot Runtime.

• The only thing you need to config is appsetting.json, which has a bot setting to launch the bot:

appsettings.json：
"bot": {
  "provider": "localDisk",
  "path": "../../Bots/SampleBot3/bot3.botproj"
}

.botproj folder structure

bot.botproj, bot project got the rootDialog from "entry"
{
    "services": [{
        "type": "luis",
        "id": "1",
        "name": "TodoBotLuis",
        "lufile": "todo.lu",
        "applicationId": "TodoBotLuis.applicationId",
        "endpointKey": "TodoBotLuis.endpointKey",
        "endpoint": "TodoBotLuis.endpoint"
    }],
    "files": [
        "*.dialog",
        "*.lg"
    ],
    "entry": "main.dialog"
}

• Please refer to Samples for more samples.