If using Microsoft Bot Framework:
- Create a Bot Service:
- Go to the Azure Portal.
- Create a new resource and search for "Bot Services".
- Set up your bot service with the necessary configurations.
- Install Bot Framework SDK:
- Install Bot Framework SDK for your chosen programming language. For Python, you can install it using pip:
pip install botbuilder-core botbuilder-dialogs botbuilder-ai
- Install Bot Framework SDK for your chosen programming language. For Python, you can install it using pip:
Use a library to connect to your Azure SQL Database. For Python, you can use pyodbc or sqlalchemy.
import pyodbc
connection_string = 'DRIVER={ODBC Driver 17 for SQL Server};SERVER=tcp:<your_server>.database.windows.net;DATABASE=<your_database>;UID=<your_username>;PWD=<your_password>'
connection = pyodbc.connect(connection_string)
cursor = connection.cursor()
Create dialog flows to handle different user interactions like searching for hotels, making reservations...
from botbuilder.core import TurnContext, ActivityHandler
from botbuilder.dialogs import DialogSet, WaterfallDialog, WaterfallStepContext
class HotelReservationBot(ActivityHandler):
def __init__(self, connection):
self.connection = connection
self.dialogs = DialogSet()
self.dialogs.add(WaterfallDialog("main_dialog", [self.start_reservation, self.confirm_reservation]))
async def on_message_activity(self, turn_context: TurnContext):
dialog_context = await self.dialogs.create_context(turn_context)
await dialog_context.continue_dialog()
if dialog_context.active_dialog is None:
await dialog_context.begin_dialog("main_dialog")
async def start_reservation(self, step_context: WaterfallStepContext):
# Logic to start reservation process
return await step_context.prompt("prompt_text", "Welcome to Hotel Reservation. Please provide your destination.")
async def confirm_reservation(self, step_context: WaterfallStepContext):
# Logic to confirm reservation
destination = step_context.result
cursor = self.connection.cursor()
cursor.execute("SELECT * FROM hotels WHERE location = ?", destination)
hotels = cursor.fetchall()
await step_context.context.send_activity(f"Found {len(hotels)} hotels in {destination}.")
return await step_context.end_dialog()
To understand user inputs better, integrate NLU services like LUIS or Dialogflow.
from botbuilder.ai.luis import LuisApplication, LuisRecognizer
luis_app = LuisApplication("<app_id>", "<endpoint_key>", "https://<region>.api.cognitive.microsoft.com/")
luis_recognizer = LuisRecognizer(luis_app)
async def recognize_intent(self, turn_context: TurnContext):
luis_result = await luis_recognizer.recognize(turn_context)
return luis_result.properties["luisResult"]
Deploy your bot to Azure App Service for scalability and accessibility and register it with various channels (for example Web Chat, Skype, Facebook Messenger....).
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