In this tutorial we will talk about importing/exporting bots, it's this is a very useful feature that allows the will allow our bots to be very portable and easy to re-use in other machines/instances of EDDI and of course to back up and restore your our bots and maintain them and keep them shiny.
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Exporting a bot is a fairly simple process, send a POST request to the following api endpoint and you will receive the location of the exported zip file on the response headers, specifically the location header.
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{botId} |
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{botVersion} |
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Example :
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Request URL |
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http://localhost:7070/backup/export/5aaf90e29f7dd421ac3c7dd4?botVersion=1 |
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Response Body |
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no content |
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Response Code |
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200 |
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Response Headers |
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{ |
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"access-control-allow-origin": "*", |
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"date": "Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:41:41 GMT", |
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"access-control-allow-headers": "authorization, Content-Type", |
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"content-length": "0", |
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"location": "http://localhost:7070/backup/export/5aaf90e29f7dd421ac3c7dd4-1.zip", |
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"access-control-allow-methods": "GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, PATCH, OPTIONS", |
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"content-type": null |
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} |
Importing a bot :
Send a POST request to the following api endpoint , you will recieve the id of the imported bot on the response headers same way as we mentioned of the export feature.
| HTTP Method | POST |
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| API endpoint |
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| HTTP Content Type | application/zip |
| Request body | the zip file binary. |
Example:
For the sake of simplifying things you can use Postman to upload the zip file of the exported bot just dont forget to add the http header of content type : application/zip.
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