article by Frank Nimphius, April 2019

Beside of conversations, chatbots need data. Especially when starting out with a chatbot project, you may need to be able to quickly show something to the stakeholders to illustrate your ideas and concepts. If things need to be quick, then often the integration of real backends is either not possible or not required. Another reason to look for and use mockup data is to bridge the time it takes service developers to provide access to backend systems.

In this article I explain four options for you to define mockup data in Oracle Digital Assistant. Each option defines a different type of data or provides a different approach of querying the data.

Single Object Data Mockup:

Multiple Nested Objects Data Mockup:

Array Objects Data Mockup:

 

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Sample Skills and Custom component for Download

Skill showing a single object data creation

Skill showing a multi objects data creation

Skill showing an array object data creation

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Custom component skill example (using default persons)

Custom component sources code and deploable '.tgz' file

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