BotHub CLI / SDK Update

BotHub CLI 0.1.20 /SDK 0.1.30 version released with improvements

Let’s go over the various improvements:

1. Added Dialogflow API V2 to support NLU
   -Dialogflow API V2 is newly added.
   - Dialogflow API V1 will be disabled officially on 23, October 2019.
   So if make a new project with Dialogflow, please use API V2.
   - BotHub.Studio also will stop to service API V1 on October 2019.
2. Added environment variables
   -If need environment variables in your project, add in .bothubenv file.
   - It can use like this in .bothbenv file:
   GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=./sample.json
3. Added Ignore file to exclude unnecessary files when deploying
   -Whendeploy, it can exclude unneeded files like.pyc.
   - Write file pattern of the file wants to exclude in .bothubignore file.
4. Added Git Ignore file
   -When working with Git, .gitignore is provided as a default template so that unnecessary files in BotHub Project are not included.
5. Added Send photo function
   -It can send photo by calling self.send_photo(url) method.
   - It is only available in Facebook Messenger, Telegram. Other platforms will be supported.
6. Added Send Facebook template function
   -https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/send-messages/templates
   - It can send variety Facebook template:

msg = Message(event).add_template(payload)
self.send_message(msg)

Our existing users need to upgrade BotHubCLI/SDK according to your version.

$ pip install --upgrade bothub-cli or bothub

If you have any questions, please contact bothub@bothub.studio!