Android

The Android SDK can be used to add Teneo chatbot functionality to Android apps. It handles communication with the Teneo Engine and makes it fast and easy to add Teneo chat functionality to your Android app. See Android Chat for an example of an Android project that uses this SDK.

The source code of this SDK can be found on GitHub.

Requirements

• Android Lollipop 5.0+
• Android Studio 3.4+
• JRE 1.8+

Example usage

Messages are sent to the engine by calling sendInput on the TieApiService singleton:

TieApiService.getSharedInstance().sendInput(text, parameters)
    .subscribeOn(Schedulers.io())
    .observeOn(AndroidSchedulers.mainThread())
    .subscribeWith(new DisposableSingleObserver<TieResponse>() {
        @Override
        public void onSuccess(TieResponse result) {
            // Do something with the result
        }
        @Override
        public void onError(Throwable e) {
            // Do something with the exception
        }
    });

Installation

You can add the library to your project through jCenter. Make sure to reference the jCenter repository, and then add the dependency com.artificalsolutions.tiesdk:library:1.0.2. Using the library also requires rxjava2.

build.gradle example:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        google()
        jcenter()
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.artificalsolutions.tiesdk:library:1.0.2'
    implementation 'io.reactivex.rxjava2:rxandroid:2.0.1'
}

API Documentation

TieApiService.setup

Before usage, setup needs to be called once with context, base URL, and endpoint.

TieApiService.getSharedInstance().setup(getApplicationContext(), teneoEngineBaseUrl, endpoint);

TieApiService.input

Communication with Teneo Interaction Engine is done with sendInput function, that returns an observable that produces either a TieResponse object with onSuccess or a Throwable on onError.

TieApiService.getSharedInstance().sendInput(userInput, parameters)

Parameter	Type	Description
userInput	String	The input string that is sent to the engine.
parameters	HashMap	Any engine instance specific parameters. The following keywords are reserved: viewtype, viewname, and userinput.

Response: On success, a TieResponse object is returned.

• input: TieInput
  • text: String
  • parameters: HashMap<String, String>
• output: TieOutput
  • text: String
  • parameters: HashMap<String, String>
  • link: String
  • emotion: String
• status: String

On fail, the call returns a Throwable. The exception can be JsonParseException, IOException, or NotInitializedException when setup has not been called, or TieApiException when the engine responds with an error. TieApiException:

• error: TieErrorResponse
  • status: String
  • input: TieInput
    • text: String
    • parameters: HashMap<String, String>
  • message: String

TieApiService.close

The SDK maintains the session until it is expired by the server, in which case the session is renewed automatically, or until it is closed by calling the close function.

TieApiService.getSharedInstance().close();

Error handling

Server-sent error messages are returned with sendInput ja close functions as TieApiException objects.