Bot settings

Set environment variables from Web interface that can be read from your bot datastore

Meya reserves a special key _settings in your bot scope database to store settings from the Meya Web IDE.

Use-cases

store API keys and urls
differentiate development from production environments
store global UX variables like default delay timings
credentials to access restricted resources
reuse bot code in multiple bots, adapted with settings
have non-technical roles adjust basic bot settings w/o touching code

Writing settings

You can find the settings from Dashboard > Bot > Settings. You can can specify any data using YAML syntax: strings, integers, floats, booleans, lists and objects.

1036 — What the settings editor looks like

Reading settings

You can read from settings in BFML using mustache syntax {{ bot._settings.key }} or from Python components using self.db.bot.settings["key"]

📘
See lines 6, 8 in BFML below.

states:
    timezone:
        component: meya.text
        properties:
            text: "Your bot is configured in the {{ bot._settings.timezone }}"
        delay:
            relative: "{{ bot._settings.short_delay }}"
    register:
        component: register
        properties:
            data:
                age: 53
                name: "Michelle Obama"
    done:
        component: meya.text
        properties:
            text: "That was cool. 😎"

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See lines 11, 12 in the following Python component.

from meya import Component
import requests
from requests.auth import HTTPBasicAuth


class Register(Component):
    """Register some data with API"""

    def start(self):
        # read url and api key from bot settings
        api_url = self.db.bot.settings["api_url"]
        api_key = self.db.bot.settings["api_key"]

        auth = HTTPBasicAuth(api_key, "")

        # read data from properties
        data = self.properties.get('data') or {}
        
        # make the request
        print requests.post(api_url, json=data, auth=auth).json()

        # output confirmation
        message = self.create_message(text="Done.")
        return self.respond(message=message, action="next")

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