watsonwork-ticketmaster

A sample Watson enabled cognitive app that integrates with the Ticketmaster api's to illustrate action fulfillment flows. You can find out more about this at http://developer.ticketmaster.com and details follow on how to register.

The Watson Work platform provides spaces for people to exchange messages in conversations. This sample app shows the following aspects of a Watson Work cognitive application:

• how to implement an action fulfillment flow.
• how to act upon actionSelected annotations received from users clicking on underlined links from triggered Watson Conversation intents.
• sending a createTargetedMessage graphql mutation targeted at a particular user and ui dialog.

Getting Started

These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

Obtain a Ticketmaster api key

1. Navigate to https://developer.ticketmaster.com/ and select 'Get Your API Key'.
2. Follow the steps to create an account and request api access.
3. Once approved you will receive an consumer key and a consumer secret which you can use when filling out the application.yml file below.

Creating Watson Work Services App

1. In your Web browser, go to Watson Work Services / Apps
2. Click on Create new app
3. Give your app an unique name with description and click on Create
4. Take a note of the App ID and App Secret
5. Click on Listen to Events -> Add an outbound webhook
6. In the callback URL, specify the URL for your app. This code assumes that the webhook listener is at https://yoururl/webhook so don't forget to add /webhook to the end of the URL (if you don't know where the app will be deployed, use a sample URL for now, like https://test.acme.com/webhook and you can modify that later)
7. Register for the Events 'message-annotation-added' and 'message-created'.
8. Take a note of the Webhook Secret as you will not receive it again.

NOTE: Do not commit your app Id, secret, and webhook secret when pushing your changes to Github

Configuring the Bluemix Watson Conversation service

The sample Weather app uses Watson Conversation to understand natural language and provide a natural language conversational interface, so you need to configure a Watson Conversation Bluemix service for it.

Go to the Bluemix Watson Dashboard and create a Watson Conversation service.

Note the Watson Conversation service user name and password, as you will need to configure the Weather app with them.

From the Watson Conversation service page click Launch tool to open the Watson Conversation tooling, and import the file watson.json that is in the root of this repository, into a new Watson Conversation workspace.

Note the Watson Conversation workspace id, as you will need to configure this app with it.

Running locally using IntelliJ IDEA

Prerequisite for running the app using IntelliJ IDEA:

• Install Lombok Plugin for IntelliJ IDEA
• Install Ngrok - used for testing the app locally without deploying on any PaaS

1. Fork it
2. Clone the project git clone https://github.com/YOUR_GITHUB_USERNAME/watsonwork-ticketmaster-java.git
3. Open IntelliJ IDEA File -> New -> Project from Exisiting Sources...
4. Navigate to the project and select build.gradle. Click OK
5. Click OK on Import Project from Gradle window
6. Open src/main/resources/application.yml

    watsonwork:
            webhook:
                secret: ${WEBHOOK_SECRET:of7bs9evq4lnbi9slg0qq2k7z6nsfk7y} #replace of7bs9evq4lnbi9slg0qq2k7z6nsfk7y with your webhook secret 
            app:
                id: ${APP_ID:c79e3474-e963-4024-aa47-4a1087903381} #replace c79e3474-e963-4024-aa47-4a1087903381 with your app Id 
                secret: ${APP_SECRET:javltqgjfvjh2d99zj5bjdfr0q4x5lw3} #replace javltqgjfvjh2d99zj5bjdfr0q4x5lw3 with your app secret 
            api:
                uri: ${WATSON_WORK_API_URI:https://api.watsonwork.ibm.com} 
                
    ticketmaster:
            api:
                uri: ${TICKETMASTER_API_URI:https://app.ticketmaster.com/discovery/v2/}
                consumer-key: ${TICKETMASTER_CONSUMER_KEY:your-consumer-key}
                consumer-secret: ${TICKETMASTER_CONSUMER_SECRET:your-consumer-secret}             

7. Right click on ApplicationBoostrap.java -> Run ApplicationBootstrap..
8. Open up terminal where ngrok is installed and run the command ngrok.exe http 9080 on windows or ./ngrok http 9080 on unix. By default the app runs on http port 9080. This exposes your app via a publicly accessible URL. ngrok displays a forwarding url after executing the command above which might look as such: http://sd2323.ngrok.io. Take a note of that URL
9. Navigate to your app on Watson Work Services / Apps. Select Listen to Events. Edit the webhook configuration with the new publicly available URL from ngrok. Make sure your callback URL has /webhook path. For example: http://sd2323.ngrok.io/webhook
10. Select message-created Event. Click Save and Enable the webhook
11. Add your app to a space on Watson Workspace and watch it echo your messages..

Deployment

Deploying on IBM Bluemix

Assuming you have completed steps 1-6 in Running locally using IntelliJ IDEA

1. Sign up for a free trial on Bluemix
2. Install the Cloud Foundry CLI and then Install the Bluemix CLI. On Windows, be sure to add the bluemix cli to your PATH.
3. Run bluemix login -a https://api.ng.bluemix.net --sso, and get your single access passcode from the link provdided.
4. Open a terminal in the project root. Run ./gradlew clean build on linux/mac or gradlew clean build on windows.
5. Run cf push my-app-name -p build/libs/watsonwork-brewerydb-java-X.X.X.jar -m 512m (Tip: Make sure the name you want to use is not taken on Bluemix already, since it must be unique.)
6. When it's finished pushing to bluemix, visit your app's url.
7. Navigate to your app on Watson Work Services / Apps. Select Listen to Events. Edit the webhook configuration with the new publicly available URL from Bluemix. Make sure your callback URL has /webhook path. For example: https://my-host-name.mybluemix.net/webhook

What API does the app use?

The app leverages the Watson Work Services and Watson Conversation cognitive capabilities to understand natural language intents, entities, and determine the necessary app actions.

It uses the Watson Work OAuth API to authenticate and get an OAuth token.

It implements a Webhook endpoint according to the Watson Work Webhook API to listen to conversations in a space and receive messages and message annotations.

Finally, it uses the Watson Work Spaces API to send back weather information messages to the space.

Built With

• Spring Boot 1.5.2 - Web Framework
• Gradle - Dependency Management

How can I contribute?

Pull requests welcome!