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Posted: Oct 3, 2016

Is it possible the let chatbot perform an action based on certain results he returns?

I was thinking of puttng a JSON string into the rive file:

+ (hello|hi|hey|howdy|hola|hai|yo) [*]
- {"id":1, "txt": "How are you?"} 

And then parse it back into a JS object.

var reply = rs.reply("soandso", text);
reply= JSON.parse(reply); 

Then according to the id it executes an action that I want. Is there a better way to do it (with rivescript or maybe with another language)?
 

 
Posted: Oct 5, 2016
   [ # 1 ]

I’ve heard of people coming up with their own OOB (“out of band”) solutions for RiveScript, one of which had them writing code like this:

// This line is put in one time per file at the top of each file
! local concat = newline

+ (hello|hi|hey|howdy|hola|hai|yo) [*]
- Hi there!
^ image: hello.png
^ id: 1
^ whatever: data 

And then you could parse it back out, like

var reply = rs.reply(username, message);
var lines = reply.split("\n");
var data = {};
for (var i = 1; i < lines.length; i++) {
    var parts = lines[i].split(":");
    data[parts[0].trim()] = parts[1].trim();
} 

The first line in the RS makes it so every ^continue command gets put in with a “\n” line break in front, and then the JS code splits the result by line breaks and parses all the extra metadata lines into an object.
 

 
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