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In Botium, head over to the Chatbot and go to Configuration > Connector Settings.

1. Enable the Advanced Mode switch

2. Add a new capability with name CUSTOMHOOK_ONBUILD and type Javascript Code

3. In the Capability Value field, you can now add your own custom Javascript Code to call your API to retreive token. For this sample, we are calling a public dummy API and we are using one of the returned JSON fields as token (see code below).

4. The dummy token is written to the Botium Capability MYTOKEN

Here is the Javascript code for Copy&Paste:

module.exports = async ({ container, request }) => {
  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    const requestOptions = {
      method: 'get',
      uri: 'https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/todos/1',
      json: true    
    }
    request(requestOptions, (err, response, body) => {
      if (err) return reject(err)
      container.pluginInstance.caps.MYTOKEN = body.title
      resolve()
    })
  })
}

We can use the Botium Scripting Memory to use the dummy token in our convo files. Add a convo file in your Test Set.

Here is the BotiumScript for copy and paste:

Greet the bot

#me
/chatid $cap(MYTOKEN)

#bot

We are using the $cap Scripting Memory function to use the capability named MYTOKEN within the convo file.