Issue Creating a Knowledge Base inside a Dialogflow agent using Dialogflow Python API

Question

Unable to create knowledge base in dialog flow using python dialogflow client.

Given admin permission for dialogflow in IAM service accounts.

I have given the Dialogflow Admin Role to the client mail I'm using.

I used a json key generated for a service account and exported it as an environmental variable

this is the code I used:

import dialogflow_v2beta1 as dialogflow

    client = dialogflow.KnowledgeBasesClient()
    project_path = client.project_path(project_id)

    knowledge_base = dialogflow.types.KnowledgeBase(
    display_name=display_name)
    response = client.create_knowledge_base(project_path, knowledge_base)

I'm able to create/delete/list a document inside already created Knowledge base but creating a knowledge base throws this error

error: google.api_core.exceptions.PermissionDenied: 403 IAM permission 'dialogflow.knowledgeBases.create' on 'projects/api_test2' denied

trixter127 trixter127 · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-23T13:26:55

The issue seems to be with the service account I'm using to deal with knowledge bases and apparently there isn't a way to provide the permission to deal with knowledge bases for dialogflow python client as of now(Kindly correct me,if I'm wrong).

The only work around I found was to use curl operations to deal with knowledge bases.

After using curl to operate on knowledge bases I decided to change all my python client code to curl and subprocesses. Its pretty simple when compared to the python client.

Edit (07/27/2020) : nothings changed with the IAM permissions for Dialogflow python client, may be I got to wait till KnowledgeBases comes out of beta stage. Meanwhile, realized requests are better way of doing this than curl and subprocess and would recommend doing the same

Issue Creating a Knowledge Base inside a Dialogflow agent using Dialogflow Python API

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