How to implement the API's response in yaml?

[rajendraarora16]

I have created the same chatbot using SUSI, however the best part is that I can implement my built-in api's like this one using indentation with given queries entered by users:

https://github.com/kumar-mind/kumar-bot/blob/master/conf/kumar/en_train_finding_skill.txt

Can we do the same thing in this project? I would be more happy to know about this feature implementation. I have found that yaml is the best approach for providing skill sets instead of creating .txt

For your reference, I am adding this example:
https://kumar.rajendraarora.com

[gunthercox]

It can be quite simple to return API responses in yaml format. Here is a quick (non framework specific) example:

def get(request):
    import yaml

    data = {
        'some_key': 'some data value'
    }

    return Response(
        data=yaml.dump({'hello': 0}, default_flow_style=False),
        headers={
            'Content-Type': 'application/x-yaml'
        }
    )

I hope this helps.

[rajendraarora16]

Can I give the response to user while fetching the APIs response in your dialogue file?

Also have one query like how will I find the indentation if suppose users want to find a train from Kota to bdts. How will I get the indentation "Kota" and "bdts" here??

I will be more happy if you could help me regarding this query and will be implementing the same into my next project.

[gunthercox]

Replying to a user's input can be achieved using ChatterBot, there is several examples in the documentation: https://chatterbot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/examples.html

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Could you clarify what you mean by "indentation"?

[rajendraarora16]

Indentation means let's say users writes his query:

"Show me the Mexican restaurants in los Angeles."

Indentation will lead to "mexican" and "los Angeles" here. So can we achieve this?

[gunthercox]

That can definitely be done. ChatterBot doesn't have this feature built in, but the nltk python library can be used to achieve entity extraction. They have a great article with examples that can be found here: https://www.nltk.org/book/ch07.html

[rajendraarora16]

Sorry not "indentation", it's entity. My bad :)

Thank you!

[gunthercox]

No problem, I hope that article helps 😄