Make bot conversational

[roerohan]

Sam-Bot/index.js

Lines 65 to 88 in 423a5b3

	} else if (message.reply_to_message.text === customStrings.askNameTransaction) {
	// input
	api.sendMessage({
	chat_id: message.chat.id,
	text: customStrings.askDescription,
	reply_markup: JSON.stringify({
	force_reply: true
	})
	});
	} else if (message.reply_to_message.text === customStrings.askDescription) {
	// input
	api.sendMessage({
	chat_id: message.chat.id,
	text: customStrings.transactionAdded,
	});
	}
	} else {

The Transaction model needs the name of the person, amount transacted and description of the transaction. The bot thus needs to remember the answers of the questions answered and then finally pass them all to the addTransaction() function.

E.G

Add Transaction
- Who did you make the transaction with?
David
- What was the transaction for?
Doritos
- What was the amount spent?
20
- Your transaction has been added

The result of this conversation should be that David, Doritos and 20 are added to the transactions database.

Make the PR on branch dev

[atrievel]

@roerohan I can tackle this if no one else is working on it

[roerohan]

Sure, go ahead @atrievel
Thanks!
P.S. need this ASAP

[atrievel]

@roerohan I don't see you asking the user What was the amount spent? anywhere...

Also what are the names of the variables from the response that I can use to save the variable in local memory?

[roerohan]

Hey @atrievel ,
Feel free to add code which you think is not present, for example, the code for What was the amount spent?.

Update: Added code for What was the amount spent on branch dev, please make your PR on that branch

I do not understand what you mean by the names of variables from the response, but here is some information that you might need.

• For the names of the attributes in the database, check out the models folder
• The message sent by telegram has the following data:

{ message_id: 567,
  from:
   { id: 892070343,
     is_bot: false,
     first_name: 'fname',
     last_name: '',
     username: '',
     language_code: 'en' },
  chat:
   { id: 892070343,
     first_name: 'fname',
     last_name: '',
     username: '',
     type: 'private' },
  date: 1570138581,
  reply_to_message:
   { message_id: 566,
     from:
      { id: 839811040,
        is_bot: true,
        first_name: 'Sam',
        username: 'sam_smartbot' },
     chat:
      { id: id,
        first_name: 'fname',
        last_name: '',
        username: '',
        type: 'private' },
     date: 1570138574,
     text: 'Who did you make the transaction with?' },
  text: 'nobody' }