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Infinite Technology ∞ David 🤖

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!

• Percy Shelley's "Ozymandias".

Purpose

David is a ready-to-deploy archetype Telegram Chat Bot App, extendable with a user-defined plugins.

In short

It takes only few clicks to deploy David - and you have a functioning (yet empty) chat bot.

Now you can develop your business functionality using David Plugins - each one representing a command.

The changes you do in the Plugins reflect in the chat immediately - you don't need to re-deploy or restart David.

This saves a lot of time and makes development more visualized.

David comes pre-packaged and pre-configured to address typical use cases.

Features

David provides the following features:

• Operational
  • Deployment friendly - David is Spring Boot Application ready for Cloud deployment (e.g. Heroku)
  • DB friendly - David comes with JPA support onboard
  • Logging - SLF4J + Bobbin + BlackBox - the best existing Logging stack. You won't even have to write logging code yourself in plugins - it is added automatically.
• Development & built-in features
  • User input handling - requesting and waiting for user input, and gracefully handling wrong data or junk
  • No wasted time on code infrastructure - David helps you to go straight to developing the features
  • Code structuring - each bot command is in separate plugin.
  • User registration - David provides user repository with generic KYC attributes
  • Step-up authentication - e-mail or SMS OTP via Pigeon
  • Rapid requirement implementation using scripted language (Groovy)
  • Push Notifications - David provides extendable Push REST API, which help to pro-actively communicate with your bot users