Botbuilder-glip NPM

botbuilder-glip

Microsoft Bot Framework connector for RingCentral Glip

Features

Ready for Microsoft Bot Framework V3
Oauth flow support
No need a registered bot on dev.botframework.com, but require a ringcentral developer account, go to apply free account
Support public and private Glip bot app

Installation

npm install botbuilder-glip

Usage

const builder = require('botbuilder')
const restify = require('restify')
const dotenv = require('dotenv')
const fs = require('fs')
const path = require('path')

const { GlipConnector } = require('botbuilder-glip')

dotenv.config()
let botsData = {}
const botsDataFile = path.join(__dirname, '.cache')
if (fs.existsSync(botsDataFile)) {
  botsData = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(botsDataFile, 'utf-8'))
}

const server = restify.createServer()

server.use(restify.plugins.queryParser())
server.use(restify.plugins.bodyParser())

server.listen(process.env.port || process.env.PORT || 3978, function () {
  console.log('%s listening to %s', server.name, server.url)
})

const connector = new GlipConnector({
  botLookup: (botId) => {
    const botEntry = botsData[botId]
    return botEntry
  },
  verificationToken: process.env.GLIP_BOT_VERIFICATION_TOKEN,
  clientId: process.env.GLIP_CLIENT_ID,
  clientSecret: process.env.GLIP_CLIENT_SECRET,
  server: process.env.GLIP_API_SERVER,
  redirectUrl: `${process.env.GLIP_BOT_SERVER}/oauth`,
  webhookUrl: `${process.env.GLIP_BOT_SERVER}/webhook`
})

// For public glip bot
server.get('/oauth', connector.listenOAuth())

//For private glip bot
server.post('/oauth', connector.listenOAuth())

server.post('/webhook', connector.listen())

const bot = new builder.UniversalBot(connector)

bot.on('installationUpdate', (event) => {
  console.log(`New bot installed: ${event.sourceEvent.TokenData.owner_name}`)

  botsData[event.sourceEvent.TokenData.owner_id] = {
    identity: event.address.bot,
    token: event.sourceEvent.TokenData
  }
  fs.writeFileSync(botsDataFile, JSON.stringify(botsData)) // save token
})

bot.dialog('/', function (session) {
  console.log('Get message from glip:', session.message)
  session.send({
    text: `You said: ${session.message.text}`,
    attachments: [{
      type: 'Card',
      fallback: 'Text',
      text: session.message.text,
    }]
  })
  session.send("You said: %s", session.message.text)
});

About webhook subscription

There are two ways to create Webhook subscription:

Create with Bot codes
Create with Bot Webhook Setting in RingCentral Developer website

If you enable Bot Webhook in RingCentral Developer website, it will create webhook subscription to your webhook URI when you add a bot.

The GlipConnector will create Webhook subscription after authrization. So it is recommended to disable the Bot Webhook setting in RingCentral Developer website, or you will have two webhook subscription.

If you want to enable the Bot Webhook setting in RingCentral Developer website, you can disable the bot to create subscription:

const connector = new GlipConnector({
  botLookup: (botId) => {
    const botEntry = botsData[botId]
    return botEntry
  },
  verificationToken: process.env.GLIP_BOT_VERIFICATION_TOKEN,
  clientId: process.env.GLIP_CLIENT_ID,
  clientSecret: process.env.GLIP_CLIENT_SECRET,
  server: process.env.GLIP_API_SERVER,
  redirectUrl: `${process.env.GLIP_BOT_SERVER}/oauth`,
  webhookUrl: `${process.env.GLIP_BOT_SERVER}/webhook`,
  disableSubscribe: true
})

And you also need to keep verificationToken same as Verification Token in Bot Webhooks setting page. We use verificationToken to validate webhook request.