In this tutorial we will talk about importing/exporting bots, this is a very useful feature that 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 our bots and maintain them and keep them shiny.

• Exporting a bot:

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.

Example :

Request URL
	http://localhost:7070/backup/export/5aaf90e29f7dd421ac3c7dd4?botVersion=1
Response Body
	no content
Response Code
	200
Response Headers
{
  "access-control-allow-origin": "*",
  "date": "Mon, 19 Mar 2018 10:41:41 GMT",
  "access-control-allow-headers": "authorization, Content-Type",
  "content-length": "0",
  "location": "http://localhost:7070/backup/export/5aaf90e29f7dd421ac3c7dd4-1.zip",
  "access-control-allow-methods": "GET, PUT, POST, DELETE, PATCH, OPTIONS",
  "content-type": null
}

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.

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.

Take a look at he image below to understand how can you upload the zip file.