Business Scenario

In this assignment, you are to implement a Chatbot that rely on a set of REST API based Microservices to perform booking in a dental clinic using any messaging platform (you prefer).
First, let us imagine that the appointment booking operation in the dental clinic is based on the following workflow (modelled as state machines).

The scenario here is the patient contact the Chatbot to request for a booking. If the patient needs to specify the doctor or ask for the list of doctors available. After the selection of the dentist the patient needs to specify the preferred timeslot the bot check if the timeslot is available and if not, provide list of available timeslots. The patient will select the timeslot available and the booking is made.

The assumption that we have at least three dentists. They are available from 9AM-5PM every day. Each dentist by nature has a timetable.

The specification are deliberately left open to allow students to take follow their own strategy to achieve the required outcome.