Passing extra data while executing action through API

Rasa Open Source
1

I want to execute action using this API /conversations/{sender_id}/execute

Can I pass some other data in request as shown below

{ 
  "action": "utter_show_book" ,
  "book_id": "5hdh3werq55"
}
2

Any update on this? This is basic requirement, we might want to pass some information explicitly to this message

3

@r4sn4

According to the documentation, this is not possible:

But why not try to previously add a message to the tracker which could be parsed in the execution then:

http://localhost:5005//conversations/{conversation_id}/messages

{
  "text": "Hello!",
  "sender": "user",
  "parse_data": {
    "entites": [
      {
        "start": 0,
        "end": 0,
        "value": "string",
        "entity": "string",
        "confidence": 0
      }
    ],
    "intent": {
      "confidence": 0.6323,
      "name": "greet"
    },
    "intent_ranking": [
      {
        "confidence": 0.6323,
        "name": "greet"
      }
    ],
    "text": "Hello!"
  }
}

Would that fit your situation? If not, you may want to extend the conversations API yourself?

Regards

4

It won’t fit in this case

5

Hello,

Is your use something like this? If the user types in a book name, you want to send the corresponding ID to the bot? Probably because these patterns are easier to recognize?

6

In my case, I want some services to interact with bot and cache information provided by such services. Here user is not interacting with bot. Instead, some service is interacting with bot

7

Oh okay, got it.

I had similar issues where I wanted to send additional information and couldn’t modify the request structure. I managed it by using buttons and some modifications in the front end, but mine was a different use case.

8

@r4sn4 Okay!

Then I think you might want to consider modifying server.py, where the endpoint lies. Something like:

policy = request_params.get("policy", None)
confidence = request_params.get("confidence", None)
additional_information = request_params.get("additional_information", None)

verbosity = event_verbosity_parameter(request, EventVerbosity.AFTER_RESTART)

try:
    out = CollectingOutputChannel()
    await app.agent.execute_action(
        conversation_id, action_to_execute, out, policy, confidence, additional_information
    )

I don’t know how update-secure your project has to be but I don’t think the API is modified pretty often…

How about that?

Regards