External Dependancies for Bots
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Charlie from Imagine
10/02/2023, 9:12 PMI need to create a bot that leverages both the Medplum SDK and the Twilio SDK. Are there any examples of how to uses external modules in bots?
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reshma
10/02/2023, 9:15 PMStripe bot uses the Stripe SDK https://github.com/medplum/medplum/tree/main/examples/medplum-demo-bots/src/stripe-bots
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Charlie from Imagine
10/03/2023, 1:24 AM@reshma that looks like its just using types 🤔 does that require having the actual strip SDK in the deployed bundle?
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reshma
10/03/2023, 3:05 AMYou are right - bots use Lambda layers https://www.medplum.com/docs/bots/bot-lambda-layer - which loads in the dependencies. Let me track down what libraries are available.
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rahul1
10/12/2023, 7:50 PMHi @Charlie from Imagine , you can find the dependencies packaged with the Bot layer here: https://github.com/medplum/medplum/blob/main/packages/bot-layer/package.json#L18-L24
rahul1
10/12/2023, 7:51 PMFor external SDKs, we have had users in the past configure their bundlers to inline external SDKs into their Bot code, but it can get a bit messy. We don't have an official example for that workflow
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Charlie from Imagine
10/12/2023, 7:54 PMI opted to stand up our own API for this sort of thing
Charlie from Imagine
10/12/2023, 7:54 PMwith express middleware to use an access token from medplum for auth
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