Interface with securitybot advice #12

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1. mbrown1508 commented on Aug 21, 2017

   

   mbrown1508

   on Aug 21, 2017

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   Hey Julien,

   The tricky parts is how the BotFramework works. Microsoft pushes a message to the MsBot object (Extended Flask Object) every time a user messages within the chat. You can store this message by using state. The examples below use JsonState but I would recommend MongodbState.

   To get the user id's and also the channel / conversation ids you will probably have to use the state as well.

   To send messages you will want to use SendToConversation and CreateConversation if it is the first time messaging the user. This should be the same on all of the platforms.

   These are my rough notes on how I would do each.

   chat.py

   class Chat(object):
       def connect(self):
           self.state = JsonState()
   
           # See notes below regarding these 2 lines.
           self.bot = MsBot()
           self.bot.run()   # blocking
   
       def get_users(self):
           past_messages = self.state.get_activities()
           # find the last few conversation_ids that the bot has been in
           # call GetConversationMembers using the conversationids found
   
       def get_messages(self):
           past_messages = self.state.get_activities()
   
       def send_message(self, channel, message):
           # There are a few more arguments that you will have to set
           # You may want/have to interrogate the past messages again as well.
           SendToConversation(conversationId=channel,
                                             text=message).send()
   
       def message_user(self, user, message):
           past_messages = self.state.get_activities()
           # Find the last message from that user and get the converstaion_id
           SendToConversation(conversationId=conversation_id,
                                             text=message).send()
   

   config.json

   other:
       state: JsonState
   

   Notes on MsBot object

   The MsBot object extends Flask. It creates a endpoint that the Microsoft posts to. This should really be run using gunicorn and not just MsBot.run(). You may want to create 2 applications. One using the MsBot object which you can run using gunicorn and it would write out the message logs to the state file. This would then allow you to extend the chat object and just read the state file.
2. juju4 commented on Aug 21, 2017

   

   juju4

   on Aug 21, 2017

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   Hello @Grungnie
   Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback! I'm reviewing that and hopefully do some kind of tests/poc and come back to you.