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Future proofing the Conversation integration

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Paulus Schoutsen
Paulus Schoutsen

The Home Assistant 2023.2 release contains PR 86592 and PR 86484 which include breaking changes to the conversation agent API to future proof it.

  • Setting an agent now requires a config entry: `conversation.async_set_agent(hass, config_entry, agent).
  • Unsetting an agent now goes via a new endpoint: `conversation.async_unset_agent(hass, config_entry)
  • AbstractConversationAgent API has changed:
    • All onboarding logic removed
    • async_process now takes new ConversationInput parameter with the same arguments. Language is now always set.
    • async_process should now always return a ConversationResult. It's no longer allowed to return None or expect error handling to be done for you.