Set slots with external metadata at conversation start

Rasa Open Source
1

I have some information about a user that needs to be passed to the chatbot, filled in to a slot, used by the chatbot throughout the course of the conversation.

Is there a way to pass arbitrary metadata to a chatbot that can then be used to fill a slot value when a conversation begins?

Something like this would be ideal:

street_address = "123 Rasa St"

response = await client.post(f"http://rasa-host:5005/webhooks/rest/webhook", json={
                "sender": "sender-id",
                "message": message,
                "metadata": {"street_address": street_address}
            })

domain.yml

slots:
  street_address:
    type: any
    mappings:
       - type: from_post
2

Yes, you’ll find it documented here