Send message (Integrations)

Send message Version 5 (Net)

Action group: Integrations

Description

The action sends a message to the topic.

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Settings of parameters

Special conditions of use

Example of a robot scheme for working with the Chatbots subgroup: _work_with_chatbot.robin-source

Example of use 

Task 

Receive a message from the chatbot (mandatory variable TIN), count the number of records in the message, if the records are greater than 0, then generate a random integer and send the result to the chatbot. 

Solution

Use the actions "Open context", " Get message", "Get the number of elements in a dictionary", "Greater than", "If", "Get random number", "Number in String", "Join", "Send message". 

Implementation

1. Assemble a robot scheme consisting of actions: _work_with_chatbot.robin-source
   
   
2. Set the parameters for the "Open context" action. 
   
   
3. Set parameters for the "Get message" action. 
   Topic - specify the same as in the chatbot. Also, in the "Required variables " field you should specify the names of variables that you want to read from Apache Kafka. 
   In the "Timeout" field it is desirable to specify a value greater than 10000
   
   
   
4. Set the parameters for the "Get the number of elements in a dictionary" action. 
   
   
   
5. Set the parameters for the "Greater than" action. 
   
   
   
6. Set the parameters for the "If" action. 
   
   
7. Set the parameters for the "Get random number" action. 
   
   
8. Set the parameters for the "Number to String" action. 
   
   
9. Set the parameters for the "Join" action. 
   
   
10. Set the parameters for the "Send message" action. 
    
    
11. Click on the "Start" button in the top panel. 

Result

The program robot completed successfully. The message was received from the chatbot and a response in the form of a randomly generated number was sent.