how can I call LUIS and get its intent outside the FormFlow

Question

I'm developing a chatbot with C# through SQL-Server and I need to know what Luis detects. We need to call LUIS somehow and get an intent return.

For example: if "hello" is detected as a greeting intent we need to get the word "greeting" in a string.

Thanks.

Means you need to obtain original request that user make for intent right? — Nilay Mehta, Jun 29 '18 at 12:01
If you are using Microsoft Bot framework, there are plenty of examples for this in both 3.x and 4.x — DFBerry, Jun 29 '18 at 14:43

gd vigneshwar · Answer 1 · 2018-07-02T07:34:05.710

The flow is like this.

After you have created, trained and published your utterances in your Luis application, get the endpoint URL and from your program make an HTTP request to this api endpoint with the utterance appended to it at the end.

This will return the detected intent, its score and the entities present with the positions.

Based on the intent and entities received you can construct your responses.

If you need premade responses I suggest you use chatbot builders like

Dialogflow
Microsoft bot framework
Alexa Skill kit

Hope this helps

Edit:

The code for getting the intent, as you have asked for in the comments

 let result: any = await request({
                            "method": "GET",
                            "uri": url,//Your API endpoint with the utternce appended
                            "json": true,
                            "headers": {
                            "User-Agent": "demo get"
                        }
                    }).then(function (data) {

                       console.log(data);
  });

Hi! thanks for your information. The question is: What is the code to call the function that return the detected intent? Thanks — Marc Cabrera Mogino, Jul 02 '18 at 06:10
I use request promise in node js to make the api call. Do you want the specific code??? — gd vigneshwar, Jul 02 '18 at 07:26

how can I call LUIS and get its intent outside the FormFlow

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