chatbot

chatbot

This is a chatbot that uses the messenger api to gather personal reviews from customers.

Creating Lambda zip file locally

The below step is automated in the continuous integration pipeline.

To create the lambda deployment zip file locally

GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o bootstrap main.go
zip lambda-handler.zip bootstrap

Lex API

Amazon Lex is a fully managed artificial intelligence (AI) service with advanced natural language models to design, build, test, and deploy conversational interfaces in applications.

Lambda responds to events from a Lex Bot.

Package Structure

A quick tour of this package's contents

• intents: Intents are the goals that your users want to accomplish, such as ordering flowers or booking a hotel. Your bot must have at least one intent. This package has handlers for handling various user intents. See more: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lexv2/latest/dg/add-intents.html

• lex: Lex contains event and response structs that interact with the lex API.

Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment

CI/CD is enabled through github actions. The following workflows are enabled-

• CI: Build and Test: This workflow uses the go cli to validate that source code can be built and all unit tests pass.
• CI: golangci-lint: This package uses golangci-lint to run quick linters on go. Please check the workflow under .github/workflows/golangci-lint.yml for configuration of linter.
• CD: deploy-lambda: deploys the lex-bot lambda

References

• Lex https://aws.amazon.com/lex/
• Github Actions https://github.com/features/actions
• Messaging API https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/
• golangci-lint https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint