Hello, Im new to Rasa. For my first project I am simply extending the demo bot and I have programmed it to respond to a few intents. My main issue right now is trying to configure this bot to execute a custom action. The scenario where this happens is when the human user tells the bot they want to “book a hotel room”. This should execute a custom action that will eventually involve the bot making an API call, but right now I’ve set it to just respond with “This is a test”…see my files below. STORIES: ## say goodbye goodbye utter_goodbye ## search path1 greet utter_greet book_hotel utter_searching action_get_hotel_link DOMAIN: action_names: utter_greet utter_goodbye utter_searching action_get_hotel_link actions: utter_greet utter_goodbye utter_searching actions.BookHotel intents: greet goodbye affirm book hotel templates: utter_searching: text: “Let me find that for you!” utter_greet: text: “Hey! How can I help you?” utter_goodbye: text: “Bye” ACTIONS: from future import absolute_import from future import division from future import unicode_literals from rasa_core.actions.action import Action class BookHotel (Action): def name(self): return ‘action_get_hotel_link’ def run(self, dispatcher, tracker, domain): sp_data = "this is a test" dispatcher.utter_message(sp_data) return [] But for some reason, the bot is never able to relay the dispatcher message back to the user… and I get this error in terminal: “2019-06-12 10:57:30 ERROR rasa.core.processor - Encountered an exception while running action 'action_get_hotel_link '. Bot will continue, but the actions events are lost. Make sure to fix the exception in your custom code.” Perhaps I messed up on my syntax somewhere…could someone point me in the right direction?? Thank you!

Hi @seansta Could you please change from rasa_core.actions.action import Action to from rasa_sdk import Action then we need to see your domain.yml and your stories.md - I smell that there is an error! Regards Julian

Ok I changed, that in actions. Still nothing. Here are my other files. domain.yml (384 Bytes) stories.md (153 Bytes)

I will investigate it tomorrow morning!

Thank you Julian :slight_smile:

Okay, let’s try something else. Start the bot by running: rasa run -vv -m <path_to_model> --endpoints endpoints.yml --credentials credentials.yml --enable-api After that, do a POST request with the body: { "text": "I want to book a hotel room!" } to http://localhost:5005/model/parse and post the result here! We could then at least figure out from where the problem comes.

[image] JulianGerhard: -endpoints endpoints.yml --credentials credentials.yml --enable-api Hi Julian, thanks for the response. I am trying to run a powershell script for this, how did I screw this up? [image]

Hey, you simply have not seen that <path_to_model> was a placeholder… you should insert the path to your model! :slight_smile: Regards

Gotcha! Here is the printout I got from PowerShell: (env) PS C:\Users\UH80906\Desktop\testbot–1> cd C:\Users\UH80906\Desktop\testbot–1 virtualenv env .\env\Scripts\activate rasa run -vv -m C:\Users\UH80906\Desktop\testbot–1\models --endpoints endpoints.yml --credentials credentials.yml --enable-api $params = { “I want to book a hotel room!” } Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://localhost:5005/model/parse -Method POST -Body $params Using base prefix ‘c:\python\python36’ New python executable in C:\Users\UH80906\Desktop\testbot–1\env\Scripts\python.exe Installing setuptools, pip, wheel… done. WARNING: The TensorFlow contrib module will not be included in TensorFlow 2.0. For more information, please see: community/20180907-contrib-sunset.md at master · tensorflow/community · GitHub GitHub - tensorflow/addons: Useful extra functionality for TensorFlow 2.x maintained by SIG-addons If you depend on functionality not listed there, please file an issue. rasa : 2019-06-13 09:52:25 DEBUG rasa.model - Extracted model to ‘C:\Users\UH80906\AppData\Local\Temp\2\tmpum6cxb7l’. At line:6 char:1 rasa run -vv -m C:\Users\UH80906\Desktop\testbot–1\models --endpoint … + CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (2019-06-13 09:5...2\tmpum6cxb7l'.:String) [], RemoteException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandError 2019-06-13 09:52:25 DEBUG rasa.core.utils Available web server routes: /conversations/<conversation_id>/messages POST add_message /conversations/<conversation_id>/tracker/events POST append_event /webhooks/rasa GET custom_webhook_RasaChatInput.health /webhooks/rasa/webhook POST custom_webhook_RasaChatInput.receive /webhooks/rest GET custom_webhook_RestInput.health /webhooks/rest/webhook POST custom_webhook_RestInput.receive /model/test/intents POST evaluate_intents /model/test/stories POST evaluate_stories /conversations/<conversation_id>/execute POST execute_action /domain GET get_domain / GET hello /model PUT load_model /model/parse POST parse /conversations/<conversation_id>/predict POST predict /conversations/<conversation_id>/tracker/events PUT replace_events /conversations/<conversation_id>/story GET retrieve…

Hi, I think that this is a misunderstanding… You have to separate those commands: Open one PowerShell and type in: rasa run -vv -m C:\Users\UH80906\Desktop\testbot–1\models --endpoints endpoints.yml --credentials credentials.yml --enable-api Then open another PowerShell and type in: $params = { “I want to book a hotel room!” } Invoke-WebRequest -Uri http://localhost:5005/model/parse -Method POST -Body $params Regards

[image] JulianGerhard: st:5005 Ok. This is the result: [image] post_response.txt (903 Bytes)

Can't Get my Custom Action to Work

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seansta (Uthum Fernando) June 13, 2019, 2:48pm 16

Hi Julian, thanks for the response.

I am trying to run a powershell script for this, how did I screw this up?

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