title: How to call external API in IBM watson chatbot and show the response in dialog box of chatbot
body: <p>I am trying to develop a chatbot using IBM Watson Conversation.  I developed the basic chatbot which will ask user details like username, fathername etc. Now i want to call an external service deployed in IBM cloud passing the user details and get the response in the chatbot box. </p>
  
  <p>Right now i am calling the whole external API as a link tag and getting the response. But that response is in new tab of the web browser. I want to return the JSON response in chatbot. </p>
  
  <p>Click <strong>Link for user details</strong>.
  This tag of link for user details has
  Click Link for user details.<br/><br/></p>
  
  <p>Can anyone help.
  Thanks in advance.</p>