Wit.ai dotnet

This is a .NET implementation of Wit.ai client library powered by .net standard 2.0

API

Versioning

The default API version is 20170307. You can target a specific version by setting the variable WIT_API_VERSION.

Overview

wit.net provides a Wit class with the following methods:

• Message - the Wit message API
• Converse - the low-level Wit converse API
• RunActions - a higher-level method to the Wit converse API
• Interactive - starts an interactive conversation with your bot
• SendVoice - sends a voice message to wit.ai and gets an accurate response. It supports many languages.

Wit class

The Wit constructor takes the following parameters:

• accessToken - the access token of your Wit instance
• actions - (optional if you only use Message()) the dictionary with your actions

actions has action names as keys and action implementations as values.

A minimal example looks like this:

static void Main(string[] args)
{
    var actions = new WitActions();
    actions["send"] = Send;

    Wit client = new Wit(accessToken: accessToken, actions: actions);
}

private static WitContext Send(ConverseRequest request, ConverseResponse response)
{
    // Do something with the Context
    return request.Context;
}

.Message()

The Wit message API.

Takes the following parameters:

• msg - the text you want Wit.ai to extract the information from
• verbose - (optional) if set, calls the API with verbose=true

Example:

var response = client.Message("what is the weather in London?");
Console.WriteLine("Yay, got Wit.ai response: " + response)

Speech to text via .SendVoice()

The Wit Speech API.

Takes the following parameter:

• soundLocation - the location of the voice message or audio file that you want to send to wit.ai. It can be either MP3,WAV,ulaw or Raw.

.RunActions()

A higher-level method to the Wit converse API. RunActions resets the last turn on new messages and errors.

Takes the following parameters:

• sessionId - a unique identifier describing the user session
• message - the text received from the user
• context - the dict representing the session state
• maxSteps - (optional) the maximum number of actions to execute (defaults to 5)
• verbose - (optional) if set, calls the API with verbose=true

Example:

string sessionId = "my-user-session-42";
var context0 = new WitContext();
var context1 = client.RunActions(sessionId, "what is the weather in London?", context0);
Console.WriteLine("The session state is now: " + context1);
var context2 = client.RunActions(sessionId, "and in Brussels?", context1);
Console.WriteLine("The session state is now: ' + context2);

.Converse()

The low-level Wit converse API.

Takes the following parameters:

• sessionId - a unique identifier describing the user session
• message - the text received from the user
• context - the dict representing the session state
• reset - (optional) whether to reset the last turn
• verbose - (optional) if set, sets the API parameter verbose to true

Example:

var response = client.Converse("my-user-session-42", "what is the weather in London?", new WitContext());
Console.WriteLine("Yay, got Wit.ai response: " + resp)

.Interactive()

Starts an interactive conversation with your bot.

Example:

client.Interactive()

See the docs for more information.