title: How Do You Call A REST API From Within Watson Conversation?
body: <p>I am testing out this android chat application using Bluemix <a href="https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/chatbot-watson-android" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/IBM-Bluemix/chatbot-watson-android</a></p>
  
  <p>At some point in the conversation I will need to call a REST API/webservice to retrieve info about data that has been gathered and send it back to the user as a chat.</p>
  
  <p>I don't want to do it from within the android application as the application wont work when I deploy it to another platform (e.g. slack).</p>
  
  <p>Is there a way to call REST APIs from within watson?</p>
  
  <p>I don't think the conversation service can do it directly, but can it link to another Bluemix service and use the result of that?</p>