Finite State Machine#

A finite-state machine (FSM) or finite-state automaton (FSA, plural: automata), finite automaton, or simply a state machine, is a mathematical model of computation.

It is an abstract machine that can be in exactly one of a finite number of states at any given time. The FSM can change from one state to another in response to some inputs; the change from one state to another is called a transition.

An FSM is defined by a list of its states, its initial state, and the inputs that trigger each transition.

Source: WikiPedia

Usage example#

Not all functionality of the bot can be implemented as single handler, for example you will need to collect some data from user in separated steps you will need to use FSM.

FSM Example

Let’s see how to do that step-by-step

Step by step#

Before handle any states you will need to specify what kind of states you want to handle

class Form(StatesGroup):
    name = State()
    like_bots = State()
    language = State()

And then write handler for each state separately from the start of dialog

Here is dialog can be started only via command /start, so lets handle it and make transition user to state Form.name

@form_router.message(CommandStart())
async def command_start(message: Message, state: FSMContext) -> None:
    await state.set_state(Form.name)
    await message.answer(
        "Hi there! What's your name?",
        reply_markup=ReplyKeyboardRemove(),
    )

After that you will need to save some data to the storage and make transition to next step.

@form_router.message(Form.name)
async def process_name(message: Message, state: FSMContext) -> None:
    await state.update_data(name=message.text)
    await state.set_state(Form.like_bots)
    await message.answer(
        f"Nice to meet you, {html.quote(message.text)}!\nDid you like to write bots?",
        reply_markup=ReplyKeyboardMarkup(
            keyboard=[
                [
                    KeyboardButton(text="Yes"),
                    KeyboardButton(text="No"),
                ]
            ],
            resize_keyboard=True,
        ),
    )

At the next steps user can make different answers, it can be yes, no or any other

Handle yes and soon we need to handle Form.language state

@form_router.message(Form.like_bots, F.text.casefold() == "yes")
async def process_like_write_bots(message: Message, state: FSMContext) -> None:
    await state.set_state(Form.language)

    await message.reply(
        "Cool! I'm too!\nWhat programming language did you use for it?",
        reply_markup=ReplyKeyboardRemove(),
    )

Handle no

@form_router.message(Form.like_bots, F.text.casefold() == "no")
async def process_dont_like_write_bots(message: Message, state: FSMContext) -> None:
    data = await state.get_data()
    await state.clear()
    await message.answer(
        "Not bad not terrible.\nSee you soon.",
        reply_markup=ReplyKeyboardRemove(),
    )
    await show_summary(message=message, data=data, positive=False)

And handle any other answers

@form_router.message(Form.like_bots)
async def process_unknown_write_bots(message: Message) -> None:
    await message.reply("I don't understand you :(")

All possible cases of like_bots step was covered, let’s implement finally step

@form_router.message(Form.language)
async def process_language(message: Message, state: FSMContext) -> None:
    data = await state.update_data(language=message.text)
    await state.clear()

    if message.text.casefold() == "python":
        await message.reply(
            "Python, you say? That's the language that makes my circuits light up! 😉"
        )

    await show_summary(message=message, data=data)

async def show_summary(message: Message, data: Dict[str, Any], positive: bool = True) -> None:
    name = data["name"]
    language = data.get("language", "<something unexpected>")
    text = f"I'll keep in mind that, {html.quote(name)}, "
    text += (
        f"you like to write bots with {html.quote(language)}."
        if positive
        else "you don't like to write bots, so sad..."
    )
    await message.answer(text=text, reply_markup=ReplyKeyboardRemove())

And now you have covered all steps from the image, but you can make possibility to cancel conversation, lets do that via command or text

@form_router.message(Command("cancel"))
@form_router.message(F.text.casefold() == "cancel")
async def cancel_handler(message: Message, state: FSMContext) -> None:
    """
    Allow user to cancel any action
    """
    current_state = await state.get_state()
    if current_state is None:
        return

    logging.info("Cancelling state %r", current_state)
    await state.clear()
    await message.answer(
        "Cancelled.",
        reply_markup=ReplyKeyboardRemove(),
    )

Complete example#

  1import asyncio
  2import logging
  3import sys
  4from os import getenv
  5from typing import Any, Dict
  6
  7from aiogram import Bot, Dispatcher, F, Router, html
  8from aiogram.enums import ParseMode
  9from aiogram.filters import Command, CommandStart
 10from aiogram.fsm.context import FSMContext
 11from aiogram.fsm.state import State, StatesGroup
 12from aiogram.types import (
 13    KeyboardButton,
 14    Message,
 15    ReplyKeyboardMarkup,
 16    ReplyKeyboardRemove,
 17)
 18
 19TOKEN = getenv("BOT_TOKEN")
 20
 21form_router = Router()
 22
 23
 24class Form(StatesGroup):
 25    name = State()
 26    like_bots = State()
 27    language = State()
 28
 29
 30@form_router.message(CommandStart())
 31async def command_start(message: Message, state: FSMContext) -> None:
 32    await state.set_state(Form.name)
 33    await message.answer(
 34        "Hi there! What's your name?",
 35        reply_markup=ReplyKeyboardRemove(),
 36    )
 37
 38
 39@form_router.message(Command("cancel"))
 40@form_router.message(F.text.casefold() == "cancel")
 41async def cancel_handler(message: Message, state: FSMContext) -> None:
 42    """
 43    Allow user to cancel any action
 44    """
 45    current_state = await state.get_state()
 46    if current_state is None:
 47        return
 48
 49    logging.info("Cancelling state %r", current_state)
 50    await state.clear()
 51    await message.answer(
 52        "Cancelled.",
 53        reply_markup=ReplyKeyboardRemove(),
 54    )
 55
 56
 57@form_router.message(Form.name)
 58async def process_name(message: Message, state: FSMContext) -> None:
 59    await state.update_data(name=message.text)
 60    await state.set_state(Form.like_bots)
 61    await message.answer(
 62        f"Nice to meet you, {html.quote(message.text)}!\nDid you like to write bots?",
 63        reply_markup=ReplyKeyboardMarkup(
 64            keyboard=[
 65                [
 66                    KeyboardButton(text="Yes"),
 67                    KeyboardButton(text="No"),
 68                ]
 69            ],
 70            resize_keyboard=True,
 71        ),
 72    )
 73
 74
 75@form_router.message(Form.like_bots, F.text.casefold() == "no")
 76async def process_dont_like_write_bots(message: Message, state: FSMContext) -> None:
 77    data = await state.get_data()
 78    await state.clear()
 79    await message.answer(
 80        "Not bad not terrible.\nSee you soon.",
 81        reply_markup=ReplyKeyboardRemove(),
 82    )
 83    await show_summary(message=message, data=data, positive=False)
 84
 85
 86@form_router.message(Form.like_bots, F.text.casefold() == "yes")
 87async def process_like_write_bots(message: Message, state: FSMContext) -> None:
 88    await state.set_state(Form.language)
 89
 90    await message.reply(
 91        "Cool! I'm too!\nWhat programming language did you use for it?",
 92        reply_markup=ReplyKeyboardRemove(),
 93    )
 94
 95
 96@form_router.message(Form.like_bots)
 97async def process_unknown_write_bots(message: Message) -> None:
 98    await message.reply("I don't understand you :(")
 99
100
101@form_router.message(Form.language)
102async def process_language(message: Message, state: FSMContext) -> None:
103    data = await state.update_data(language=message.text)
104    await state.clear()
105
106    if message.text.casefold() == "python":
107        await message.reply(
108            "Python, you say? That's the language that makes my circuits light up! 😉"
109        )
110
111    await show_summary(message=message, data=data)
112
113
114async def show_summary(message: Message, data: Dict[str, Any], positive: bool = True) -> None:
115    name = data["name"]
116    language = data.get("language", "<something unexpected>")
117    text = f"I'll keep in mind that, {html.quote(name)}, "
118    text += (
119        f"you like to write bots with {html.quote(language)}."
120        if positive
121        else "you don't like to write bots, so sad..."
122    )
123    await message.answer(text=text, reply_markup=ReplyKeyboardRemove())
124
125
126async def main():
127    bot = Bot(token=TOKEN, parse_mode=ParseMode.HTML)
128    dp = Dispatcher()
129    dp.include_router(form_router)
130
131    await dp.start_polling(bot)
132
133
134if __name__ == "__main__":
135    logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, stream=sys.stdout)
136    asyncio.run(main())

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