Sunsetting Bot Engine, deprecating the Stories UI and /converse endpoint on February 1, 2018

[sgould420]

I have a bot being used in production that uses wit-php.

I am sure you are aware that wit.ai is deprecating Bot Engine and the Stories UI , and so they will stop serving requests to the associated /converse endpoint on February 1, 2018.

The recommended migration is to use /message and code on your side to manage the conversation and link to the answers that would be stored in your database.

Currently I am using wit-php as outlined in your README.md, and like in your wit-php-example Quickstart command , with calls like:

$context = $conversation->converse($sessionId, $message, $context);

So, almost all of the bot logic is implemented in my MyActionMapping class , that extends ActionMapping class.

I am a little bit lost at getting started in this migratrion to abandon converse, and just use /message

There is a migration tutorial that wit.ai put up but it is focused on migrating Node.js apps, using node-wit (the Node.js SDK for Wit.ai)

I expect there are allot of people that need to deal with this issue as this February 1, 2018 deadline is approaching.

Do you have any suggestions on where to start with migrating an app that is currently using wit-php's Conversation class?

[sgould420]

@tgallice ?