Add utterance to alexa.launch() ?

[MnHung]

Hi all:

const launchResponse = await alexa.launch();

can simulate a user say "Alexa, open {invocation-name}"

Is it possible to add utterance support to launch() , maybe it is like

await alexa.launch("do some work");

to simulate a user say "Alexa, ask {invocation-name} to do some work" ?

and thank you all, you did a great job.

[jkelvie]

Hi @MnHung - just saying alexa.utter("do some work") as a first call to the emulator should do it. Have you tried that? It is equivalent to saying "ask skill to do some work".

[MnHung]

Thank you @jkelvie , yes it works.
um... should I close it or something? I am new to github

[jkelvie]

Yes, go ahead and close. Thanks!

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[ultradian]

I am probably missing something simple, but I am unable to get my LaunchRequest to trigger. I set up a very simple index.js:

"use strict";
const Alexa = require("alexa-sdk");

//=============================================================================
const APP_ID = "amzn1.ask.skill.[unique-value-here]";

const HELP_MESSAGE = "You can ask for help.";
const HELP_REPROMPT = "Ask for help.";
const STOP_MESSAGE = "Goodbye!";

exports.handler = (event, context) => {
    const alexa = Alexa.handler(event, context);
    alexa.appId = APP_ID;
    alexa.registerHandlers(handlers);
    alexa.execute();
};

const handlers = {
    "LaunchRequest" : function() {
        console.log("DEBUG: start LaunchRequest");
        this.attributes.speechOutput = "Welcome to the test program.";
        this.response.speak(this.attributes.speechOutput);
        this.emit(':responseReady');
    },
    "AMAZON.HelpIntent": function() {
        this.attributes.speechOutput = HELP_MESSAGE;
        this.attributes.repromptSpeech = HELP_REPROMPT;
        this.response.speak(this.attributes.speechOutput)
            .listen(this.attributes.repromptSpeech);
        this.emit(":responseReady");
    },
    "AMAZON.RepeatIntent": function() {
        this.response.speak(this.attributes.speechOutput)
            .listen(this.attributes.repromptSpeech);
        this.emit(":responseReady");
    },
    "AMAZON.CancelIntent": function() {
        this.emit("EndSession");
    },
    "AMAZON.StopIntent": function() {
        this.emit("EndSession");
    },
    "EndSession": function() {
        this.response.speak(STOP_MESSAGE);
        this.emit(":responseReady");
    },
    "Unhandled": function() {
        this.attributes.speechOutput = "No intent match.";
        this.attributes.repromptSpeech = "Try again";
        this.response.speak(this.attributes.speechOutput)
            .listen(this.attributes.repromptSpeech);
        this.emit(":responseReady");
    },
};

for testing using Jest with this test file:

const vax = require("virtual-alexa");
const alexa = vax.VirtualAlexa.Builder()
    .handler("../src/index.handler") // Lambda function file and name
    .interactionModelFile("./model.json")
    .applicationID("amzn1.ask.skill.[unique-value-here]")
    .create();

test("Launches successfully", (done) => {
    alexa.utter("get started").then((payload) => {
        expect(payload.response.outputSpeech.ssml).toContain("Welcome");
        return alexa.utter("");
    });
});

And it triggers the CancelIntent instead of LaunchRequest. Specifically:

  console.warn node_modules/virtual-alexa/lib/src/SkillInteractor.js:33
    No intentName matches utterance: get started. Using fallback utterance: cancel

What am I doing wrong? If you need the code, I put it up at https://github.com/ultradian/AlexaTesting
For package.json I used:

{
  "name": "unitTest",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
    "alexa-sdk": "^1.0.22",
    "i18next": "^10.2.1",
    "i18next-sprintf-postprocessor": "^0.2.2"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
      "jest": "^22.3.0",
      "pack-zip": "^0.2.2",
      "virtual-alexa": "^0.4.2"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "build-aws-resource": "pack-zip",
    "test": "jest"
 }
}

[jkelvie]

Hi @ultradian - you want to call alexa.launch instead of utter to get a launch request. See here:
https://github.com/bespoken/giftionary/blob/master/test/index.test.js#L48

Let me know if that works for you! Best, John

[ultradian]

Thanks, John. That works great. I didn't go deep enough into the code... Is there a doc page besides https://github.com/bespoken/virtual-alexa/blob/master/README.md? The info at http://docs.bespoken.io/ only describes bstAlexa.

[jkelvie]

Yes, take a look here:
https://bespoken.github.io/virtual-alexa/api/

[ultradian]

Thanks for the link. I'll put it in the Github. A further question that I don't see documented (but probably is there somewhere)... is there a way to trigger the 'Unhandled' intent? I think there is some config file I'm missing because it says it is using a 'fallback utterance' which defaults to cancel.