Connect Node.js BOT to MS Azure SQL database - node.js

Question

I have a working MS Teams bot written in Node.js. The bot asks a series of questions and currently displays the responses at the end by accessing the session variables. All well and good.
Now I am attempting to store the session variables in a MS Azure SQL DB. The DB is correctly set up in Azure as I can access and write data to it in SSMS. But I believe I am probably connecting incorrectly to the DB in my bot code. The bot code I am using is pulled from:
connecting to SQL using Node.js
That code makes sense to me. But how do I use that code in my bot? Here is what I have attempted thus far...
Currently I am using the local memory MemoryBotStorage() and setting to that.
var inMemoryStorage = new builder.MemoryBotStorage();
.set('storage', inMemoryStorage)
In another Microsoft article dealing with the Azure Cosmos DB it states "4.Specify that you want to use your custom database instead of the in-memory storage." So from this I deduce that I hafta add my instantiated sql db to the .set('storage', DB Goes Here) but my attempts have failed and I am not sure if I am even correct?
So my question is how do I correctly access the Azure sql server DB form my bot code - and is the link I provided even the correct way?
Thank you
Note - This code sample worked for me - I was able to connect and query my Azure DB - but it is only DB code and does not take into consideration bot code.
EDIT - Code:
const builder = require('botbuilder');
const builderTeams = require('botbuilder-teams');
const restify = require('restify');
const connector = new builderTeams.TeamsChatConnector(
{
appId: "My app ID,
appPassword: "My App PW",
}
);
var inMemoryStorage = new builder.MemoryBotStorage();
const bot = new builder.UniversalBot(connector, [
function (session) {
session.send("Welcome.");
builder.Prompts.text(session, "Question1?");
},
function (session, results) {
session.dialogData.question1 = results.response;
builder.Prompts.text(session, "Question2?");
},
function (session, results) {
session.dialogData.Question2 = results.response;
builder.Prompts.text(session, "Question3?");
},
function (session, results) {
session.dialogData.Question3 = results.response;
// Begin DB
var Connection = require('tedious').Connection;
var config = {
userName: 'myusername',
password: 'mypw',
server: 'myserver.database.windows.net',
// If you are on Azure SQL Database, you need these next options.
options: { encrypt: true, database: 'mydb' }
};
var connection = new Connection(config);
connection.on('connect', function (err) {
// If no error, then good to proceed.
console.log("Connected");
executeStatement1();
});
var Request = require('tedious').Request
var TYPES = require('tedious').TYPES;
function executeStatement1() {
request = new Request("INSERT my (Username, Question1, Question2, Question3, StatusDate) VALUES (#Username, #Question1, #Question2, #Question3, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP);", function (err) {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
}
});
request.addParameter('Username', TYPES.NVarChar, session.userData.userName);
request.addParameter('Question1', TYPES.NVarChar, session.dialogData.Question1);
request.addParameter('Question2', TYPES.NVarChar, session.dialogData.Question2);
request.addParameter('Question3', TYPES.NVarChar, session.dialogData.Question3);
request.on('row', function (columns) {
columns.forEach(function (column) {
if (column.value === null) {
console.log('NULL');
} else {
console.log("ID of inserted item is " + column.value);
}
});
});
connection.execSql(request);
// End DB
// Process request and display details
session.endDialog();
}
]).set('storage', inMemoryStorage)
const server = restify.createServer();
server.post('api/messages', connector.listen());
server.listen(portnumber)
Error when running with npm start:
npm start
> simplebot#1.0.0 start C:\Developer\dailyStatus
> node index.js
C:\Developer\dailyStatus\index.js:81
]).set('storage', inMemoryStorage)
^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ]
at createScript (vm.js:80:10)
at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:139:10)
at Module._compile (module.js:616:28)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:693:10)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:188:16)
at bootstrap_node.js:609:3
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! simplebot#1.0.0 start: `node index.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the simplebot#1.0.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely...
npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR! C: etc.
FINAL
I was able to able to get this working with this tutorial. Thanks also to Marc LeFleur.

Answer 1

You have several typos. For example, you're missing the closing " on appId:
const connector = new builderTeams.TeamsChatConnector(
{
appId: "My app ID",
appPassword: "My App PW",
}
);
You also can't declare the function executeStatement1() {...} function within the your IDialogWaterfallStep function. This needs to live outside the constructor and called from the IDialogWaterfallStep.