Aura Bot components

aura-bot components can be categorized into three main groups for documentary purposes:

Aura Bot Platform components Components aura-bot has, as a BotFramework bot:

• Aura Bot recognizers
• Aura Bot middlewares
• Aura Bot dialogs
• Aura Bot Adapter
• Aura Bot ActivityHandler

Aura Bot functional modules
Components that have been built over aura-bot to provide it with specific functionalities.

• Plugin manager
• Routing manager

Aura Bot databases Databases used by aura-bot:

• MongoDB
• Cache module

Aura Bot ActivityHandler

This is properly the core of the bot, i.e., the message dispatcher. aura-bot just extends the ActivityHandler provided by BotFramework to handle activities properly.

It overwrites the following events, that are executed just after all incoming middlewares finish:

• onTurn: to update the states of the turn properly: conversationState, userState, userAuthState.
• onMessage: to run the main dialog, just after states have been updated.
• onDialog: it is executed after the whole main dialog ends and updates the states of the turn.