Expose built in wit.ai API in simple to use way

[mraaroncruz]

I'm just going to put this here as a placeholder. If anyone @Charca, @mmayla has an idea for a clean bootbot API, let's discuss it in the thread here. I'll look more into this over the next week.

I think this would really play to bootbot's strengths.

[Charca]

I'm not familiar with wit.ai's API, but I'm all for integrations and clean, easy to use APIs :)

This is a great idea, I'll try to do some research this week. If anyone has ideas or suggestions on how to implement it, please share them in the comments.

[mmayla]

@Charca @mraaroncruz what do you think about middleware functions that run between requests? something maybe like what Botkit did

[magnusburton]

@mmayla it'd be great with the ability to great middleware functions to bootbot. This way I could parse the incoming message, load users from my database etc. before handling their message.

[yipcma]

curious what's the progress on this. Would love to use this to minimize overhead.

[mraaroncruz]

@yipcma I haven't had time to work on this because I am really swamped with work. I estimated February last month, but it may have to be pushed till March. Unless someone else picks it up and then I would review it (almost) immediately.
I'm saying "no" to other projects now so my backlog should start to shrink next week. I'll keep you posted.

[tom-sherman]

Lack of extensibility is one of the reasons I haven't tried this project out yet.

I agree with @magnusburton, this sort of integration should be handled in plugins/middleware outside of this project.

Edit: Just seen #104 which would solve all of my problems at once!