API example about convform

[turbocpt]

Just some clarity on this. I am doing this for a charity program where people can donate clothing, new and old. So I can give more detail if you are able to assist.

[eduardotkoller]

Hi there @turbocpt ,

To give you more clarity on this: view the plugin (and the conversation) as a state machine. Every state expects some input and tells which is the new state based on the input. When the plugins builds the conversation from a form, it builds the states and transition between states as a linked list of objects, and is predetermined from the start.

To use it expecting responses from an API, you have to build the states dynamically. The example at https://github.com/eduardotkoller/convForm/blob/master/api_example.html (the function at line 40) can give you a hint on how to do that. Use the input from the user to send the request for the API, use response from the API to build a new state and link the current state to it, and call the ready function passed as a parameter to the onInputSubmit.

I can't really help you more than that, the last time I used jQuery was when I created this (sorry).

[eduardotkoller]

Another way of doing this is passing the logic to the templating engine. If your "conversation" is kinda fixed (based on a json file that shouldn't change while the user is using the form), you can make a call for the API to get the json file, build the conversation using HTML and initialize the plugin after.

[turbocpt]

@eduardotkoller Thank you very much for the reply. I am clueless when it comes to jquery, but I will try and make sense of how to do this.