Simple project that serves as a demo, to show how to build a very simple Rest API and use it for a chatbot.

First we need to create an environment, then install all our packages (only Django and its Rest Framework). When it's done, we can create the Django project and the api app.

$ virtualenv env
$ source env/bin/activate

$ pip install django djangorestframework

$ django-admin.py startproject chatbot_api

$ cd chatbot_api

$ python manage.py startapp message

When it's done, we need to add Django Rest Framework to the installed apps parameter of our project, in chatbot_api/chatbot_api/settings.py :

# chatbot_api/chabot_api/settings.py

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'rest_framework',
    'Message.apps.MessageConfig',
)

Then run the migrations and launch the server to check that everything is work properly:

$ python manage.py migrate
$ python manage.py runserver

• Create the model
• Migrate it
• Create a Model Serializer
• Create an APIView
• Add the url
• Create the DialogFlow Helper
• Use the response in the view