Import/Export a Chatbot

In this tutorial we will talk about importing/exporting bots, this is a very useful feature that will allow our bots to be very portable and easy to re-use in other machines/instances of EDDI and of course to backup and restore our bots and maintain them and keep them shiny.

Exporting a Chatbot:

Exporting a bot is a fairly simple process, send a POST request to the following API endpoint and you will receive the location of the exported zip file on the response headers, specifically the location header.

Export Chatbot REST API Endpoint

Export a chatbot

POST http://localhost:7070/backup/export/:botId?botVersion=:botVersion

Path Parameters

Name	Type	Description
botId	string	Id of the bot you wish to export

Query Parameters

Name	Type	Description
botVersion	string	Version of the bot

200

{
"access-control-allow-origin": "*",
"date": "Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:41:41 GMT",
"access-control-allow-headers": "authorization, Content-Type",
"content-length": "0",
"location": "http://localhost:7070/backup/export/5aaf90e29f7dd421ac3c7dd4-1.zip",
"access-control-allow-methods": "GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, PATCH, OPTIONS",
"content-type": null
}

Example:

Request URL:

http://localhost:7070/backup/export/5aaf90e29f7dd421ac3c7dd4?botVersion=1

Response Body: no content Response Code: 200 Response Headers:

{
"access-control-allow-origin": "*",
"date": "Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:41:41 GMT",
"access-control-allow-headers": "authorization, Content-Type",
"content-length": "0",
"location": "http://localhost:7070/backup/export/5aaf90e29f7dd421ac3c7dd4-1.zip",
"access-control-allow-methods": "GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, PATCH, OPTIONS",
"content-type": null
}

Importing a bot:

Same process as exporting; send a POST request to the following API endpoint , you will receive the id of the imported bot on the response headers.

Import Chatbot REST API Endpoint

Element	Value
Http Method	POST
API endpoint	/backup/import
HTTP Content Type Header	application/zip
Request body	the zip file binary.

Example:

For the sake of simplifying things you can use Postman to upload the zip file of the exported bot just don't forget to add the http header of content type : application/zip.

Take a look at he image below to understand how can you upload the zip file in Postman:

Important: The bot will not be deployed after import you will have to deploy it yourself by using the corresponding API endpoint, please referrer to Deploying a bot.