The voxaEvent Object

class VoxaEvent(event, context)

The voxaEvent object contains all the information from the Voxa event, it’s an object kept for the entire lifecycle of the state machine transitions and as such is a perfect place for middleware to put information that should be available on every request.

VoxaEvent.rawEvent

A plain javascript copy of the request object as received from the platform

VoxaEvent.executionContext

On AWS Lambda this object contains the context

VoxaEvent.t

The current translation function from i18next, initialized to the language of the current request

VoxaEvent.renderer

The renderer object used in the current request

VoxaEvent.platform

The currently running Voxa Platform

VoxaEvent.model

The default middleware instantiates a Model and makes it available through voxaEvent.model

VoxaEvent.intent.params

In Alexa the voxaEvent object makes intent.slots available through intent.params after aplying a simple transformation so

{ "slots": [{ "name": "Dish", "value": "Fried Chicken" }] }

becomes:

{ "Dish": "Fried Chicken" }

in other platforms it does it’s best to make the intent params for each platform also available on intent.params

VoxaEvent.user

An object that contains the userId and accessToken if available

{
  "userId": "The platform specific userId",
  "id": "same as userId",
  "accessToken": "available if user has done account linking"
}
VoxaEvent.model

An instance of the Voxa App Model.

VoxaEvent.log

An instance of lambda-log

VoxaEvent.supportedInterfaces()

Array of supported interfaces

Returns Array:A string array of the platform’s supported interfaces
VoxaEvent.getUserInformation()

Object with user personal information from the platform being used.

{
  // Google specific fields
  "sub": 1234567890,        // The unique ID of the user's Google Account
  "iss": "https://accounts.google.com",        // The token's issuer
  "aud": "123-abc.apps.googleusercontent.com", // Client ID assigned to your Actions project
  "iat": 233366400,         // Unix timestamp of the token's creation time
  "exp": 233370000,         // Unix timestamp of the token's expiration time
  "emailVerified": true,
  "givenName": "John",
  "familyName": "Doe",
  "locale": "en_US",

  // Alexa specific fields
  "zipCode": "98101",
  "userId": "amzn1.account.K2LI23KL2LK2",

  // Platforms common fields
  "email": "johndoe@gmail.com",
  "name": "John Doe"
}
Returns object:A object with user’s information
VoxaEvent.getUserInformationWithGoogle()

Object with user personal information from Google. Go here for more information.

{
  "sub": 1234567890,        // The unique ID of the user's Google Account
  "iss": "https://accounts.google.com",        // The token's issuer
  "aud": "123-abc.apps.googleusercontent.com", // Client ID assigned to your Actions project
  "iat": 233366400,         // Unix timestamp of the token's creation time
  "exp": 233370000,         // Unix timestamp of the token's expiration time
  "givenName": "John",
  "familyName": "Doe",
  "locale": "en_US",
  "email": "johndoe@gmail.com",
  "name": "John Doe"
}
Returns object:A object with user’s information
VoxaEvent.getUserInformationWithLWA()

Object with user personal information from Amazon. Go here for more information.

{
  "email": "johndoe@gmail.com",
  "name": "John Doe",
  "zipCode": "98101",
  "userId": "amzn1.account.K2LI23KL2LK2"
}
Returns object:A object with user’s information

IVoxaEvent is an interface that inherits its attributes and function to the specific platforms, for more information about each platform’s own methods visit: