Can't resolve syntax error in Conversation flow : Watson Co - ibm-cloud

The question is : why does the conversation print the JSON output instead of plain text , as it should. Next, why is the context variable, size, not getting set?
The Watson response being thrown as JSON is, also the context variable, size as specified below, is not getting set : {
"output": {
"text": "Great, a #size pizza, what toppings would you like"
},
"context": {
"size": "#size"
}
}
I can't find any error, in the Advanced Watson output for the dialog nodes, where the user first specifies the size of the pizza followed by the toppings. The output from the first node, and shown in the above picture.
Thank you !

The reason why Conversation responds with JSON is because you have a JSON in the response part of the dialog nodes there. If you cut and paste it in the "Advanced Editor" I think you'll get what you're looking for. Let me know if that fixes it.

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IBM Cloud Function OpenWhisk node.js calling WIOTP over http

I am trying to use https://github.com/ibm-watson-iot/openwhisk-package-watsoniotp in an OpenWhisk sequence (containing two actions) all code is node.js
Testing the sequence using Postman. Once the action completes, the action returns the variable, payload. The variable payload is passed over to the next action in the sequence which is the openwhisk-package-watsoniotp (added via a binding in the IBM Cloud console so I am unable to modify this code, it is locked).
I can post data from postman into Watson IoT platform via the sequence. However the format of the payload is interpreted as a String, not a JSON string.
This is the body I post from Postman, one of the variants I have tried.
{"payload": "{'speed': 10}"}
My node.JS actions return the input, unmodified.
return {payload: params.payload};
The value should be a JSON string. However WIOTP is unable to interpret the payload and basically tokenizes the values. This is evident when I try to create a board and a card. The property list lets me select each value in the array.
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The openwhisk-package-watsontiotp code as far as I can tell just takes, params.payload as is and passes it along.
I found an example in the code that answer the question,
The payload, should be nested. I missed that originally.
{
"key": "sampleInput",
"value": {
"eventType": "status",
"payload": {
"temp": 4
},
"domain": "messaging.internetofthings.ibmcloud.com",
"typeId": "xxxx",
"deviceId": "xxxx01"
}
}

How to give personalised greeting in Watson Conversation?

While Defining the Dialog in the Watson Conversation I'm not able to greet user with his/her name or I'm not able to detect contact number sent by the user and rephrase it to the user. Is it possible to do it in the Watson Conversation Api or not.
Although Mitch's response is correct, here is an example of doing a personalised response.
1. Set your conversation_start node text to "Hello <? context.username ?>".
2. In your code you would do something like this (Python).
import json
from watson_developer_cloud import ConversationV1
conversation = ConversationV1(
username='SERVICE_USERNAME',
password='SERVICE_PASSWORD',
version='2016-07-11')
workspace_id = 'WORKSPACE_ID_CONVERSATION'
response = conversation.message(workspace_id=workspace_id, context= {'username':'Simon'})
print json.dumps(response)
3. When you run this, it should output the following, with the "text" part being what the user sees.
{
"entities":[],
"intents":[],
"output":{
"log_messages":[],
"nodes_visited":["node_1_1472298724972],
"text":["Hello Simon"]
},
"context":{
"username":"Simon",
"conversation_id":"9dc1501b-ac53-4b51-a299-37f5314ebf89",
"system":{
"dialog_turn_counter":1,
"dialog_stack":["root"],
"dialog_request_counter":1
}
},
"input":{}
}
One thing to be aware is that, the context object is used to maintain the state of the conversation. So if you plan to use just REST API's then you need to merge your context variables into the preceding context object before sending it. You do only need to do this at points where you do know the conversation needs that context.
Do you already have access to this information? You can send these values through as context, and refer to them using $context_variable
The same goes for collecting information from a user. You can capture things using regular expressions via your application, or using some Spring Expressions, you can see the text.matches here:
https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/doc/conversation/dialog_reference.shtml
You would store this as context, and then refer to it using $context_variable again.
Information like names and phone numbers is quite open ended, so can be difficult to capture without using an open entity extraction engine, which we are researching best ways to incorporate this.
To get the user's input, use:
"context": {"yourVariable": "<?input.text?>"}
And to show:
"output": {"text": "You entered this $yourVariable"}

Google Fit REST API "Unable to fetch DataSource for Dataset: xyz"

I'm testing out a few things in the OAuth 2.0 Playground and trying to get data in and out of Google Fit using their REST API
I have done this previously with success, I just didn't write down what I did.. now I've come back to make it a proper thing and can't get it working again.
I have access to Google Fit datasources via the dashboard. I can get a list of the dataSources that exist from:
https://www.googleapis.com/fitness/v1/users/me/dataSources
And that is successful. I have also created my own stream which has a single floating point weight value on it called
raw:com.google.weight:b6ac18c0:dten.sync
It already has data in it, I put it there last time I used it. I can select all that data by requesting a GET on the following
https://www.googleapis.com/fitness/v1/users/me/dataSources/raw:com.google.weight:b6ac18c0:dten.sync/datasets/0-1432193482000000000
It returns me all the data points I entered last time as JSON
I then try to PATCH the data adding my own data to the folliwng URL
https://www.googleapis.com/fitness/v1/users/me/dataSources/raw:com.google.weight:b6ac18c0:dten.sync/datasets/1432193482000000000-1432193482000000000
With this as a the request body
{
"minStartTimeNs": "1421912895000000000",
"maxEndTimeNs": "1432193482000000000",
"dataSourceId": "raw:com.google.weight:b6ac18c0:dten.sync",
"point": [
{
"startTimeNanos": "1421912895000000000",
"modifiedTimeMillis": "1421912895000",
"endTimeNanos": "1421912895000000000",
"value": [
{
"fPVal": 89.1
}
],
"dataTypeName": "com.google.weight"
}
]
}
But I get back
{
"error": {
"code": 400,
"message": "Unable to fetch DataSource for Dataset: raw:com.google.weight:b6ac18c0:dten.sync",
"errors": [
{
"domain": "global",
"message": "Unable to fetch DataSource for Dataset: raw:com.google.weight:b6ac18c0:dten.sync",
"reason": "invalidArgument"
}
]
}
}
I can't find any one referencing a similar anywhere soo I'm here
Also note if I miss spell my source it tells me off because they don't match the URL, if i include an empty list of data points I get the same error. I'm quite lost so I'm throwing it out there to see if anyone knows what that means
Thanks in advance
edit: i tried changing the hex code for my project's integer code and got an error about untrusted source. so i tried making a new test data source which works as expected. Slightly annoyed but guess I'll just start over..
OK I was stupid and didn't set up my own credentials in the OAuth settings in top right of the dashboard as it said to here. I forgot that bit -_- now I can access my own stream again and it shows my integer project id in the stream id not the hex one
https://developers.google.com/fit/rest/v1/get-started
Now I get invalid argument, but.. whatever >_<
edit 2:
invalid argument was because I have fPVal instead of fpVal and modifiedTimeMillis mills is not supposed to be submitted, obviously

Additional fields (author, isbn) for /{user}/books.reads

Introduction
/me/books.reads returns books[1].
It includes an array of books and the following fields for each book:
title
type
id
url
Problem
I'd like to get the author name(s) at least. I know that written_by is an existing field for books.
I'd like to get ISBN, if possible.
Current situation
I tried this:
/me/books.reads?fields=data.fields(author)
or
/me/books.reads?fields=data.fields(book.fields(author))
But the error response is:
"Subfields are not supported by data"
The books.reads response looks like this (just one book included):
{
"data": [
{
"id": "00000",
"from": {
"name": "User name",
"id": "11111"
},
"start_time": "2013-07-18T23:50:37+0000",
"publish_time": "2013-07-18T23:50:37+0000",
"application": {
"name": "Books",
"id": "174275722710475"
},
"data": {
"book": {
"id": "192511337557794",
"url": "https://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Semantic-Web-Primer/192511337557794",
"type": "books.book",
"title": "A Semantic Web Primer"
}
},
"type": "books.reads",
"no_feed_story": false,
"likes": {
"count": 0,
"can_like": true,
"user_likes": false
},
"comments": {
"count": 0,
"can_comment": true,
"comment_order": "chronological"
}
}
}
If I take the id of a book, I can get its metadata from the open graph, for example http://graph.facebook.com/192511337557794 returns something like this:
{
"category": "Book",
"description": "\u003CP>The development of the Semantic Web...",
"genre": "Computers",
"is_community_page": true,
"is_published": true,
"talking_about_count": 0,
"were_here_count": 0,
"written_by": "Grigoris Antoniou, Paul Groth, Frank Van Harmelen",
"id": "192511337557794",
"name": "A Semantic Web Primer",
"link": "http://www.facebook.com/pages/A-Semantic-Web-Primer/192511337557794",
"likes": 1
}
The response includes ~10 fields, including written_by which has the authors of the book.
Curiously, link field seems to map to url of the books.reads response. However, the field names are different, so I'm starting to loose hope that I would be able to ask for written_by in books.reads request..
The only reference that I've found about /me/books is https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/opengraph/object-type/books.book/
This is essentially about user sharing that he/she has read a book, not the details of the book itself.
The data structure is focused on the occasion of reading a book: when reading was started, when this story was published, etc.
[1] I know this thanks to How to get "read books"
FQl does not looks very promising – although you can request books from the user table, it seems to deliver just a string value with only the book titles comma-separated.
You can search page table by name – but I doubt it will work with name in (subquery) when what that subquery delivers is just one string of the format 'title 1,title 2,…'.
Can’t really test this right now, because I have read only one book so far (ahm, one that I have set as “books I read” on FB, not in general …) – but using that to search the page table by name already delivers a multitude of pages, and even if I narrow that selection down by AND is_community_page=1, I still get several, so no real way of telling which would be the right one, I guess.
So, using the Graph API and a batch request seems to be more promising.
Similar to an FQL multi-query, batch requests also allow you to refer data from the previous “operation” in a batch, by giving operations a “name”, and then referring to data from the first operation by using JSONPath expression format (see Specifying dependencies between operations in the request for details).
So a batch query for this could look like this,
[
{"method":"GET","name":"get-books","relative_url":"me\/books?fields=id"},
{"method":"GET","relative_url":"?ids={result=get-books:$.data.*.id}
&fields=description,name,written_by"}
]
Here all in one line, for easier copy&paste, so that line breaks don’t cause syntax errors:
[{"method":"GET","name":"get-books","relative_url":"me\/books?fields=id"},{"method":"GET","relative_url":"?ids={result=get-books:$.data.*.id}&fields=description,name,written_by"}]
So, to test this:
Go to Graph API Explorer.
Change method to POST via the dropdown, and clear whatever is in the field right next to it.
Click “Add a field”, and input name batch, and as value insert the line copy&pasted from above.
Since that will also get you a lot of “headers” you might not be interested in, you can add one more field, name include_headers and value false to get rid of those.
In the result, you will get a field named body, that contains the JSON-encoded data for the second query. If you want more fields, add them to the fields parameter of the second query, or leave that parameter out completely if you want all of them.
OK, after some trial-and-error I managed to create a direct link to Graph API Explorer to test this – the right amount of URL-encoding to use is a little fiddly to figure out :-)
(I left out the fields parameter for the second operation here, so this will give you all the info for the book that there is.)
As I said, I only got one book on FB, but this should work for a user with multiple books the same way (since the second operation just takes however many IDs it is given from the first one).
But I can’t tell you off the top of my head how this will work for a lot of books – how slow the second operation might get with that, when you set a high limit for the first one. And I also don’t know how this will behave in regard to pagination, which you might run into when me/books delivers a lot of books for a user.
But I think this should be a good enough starting point for you to figure the rest out by trying it on users with more data. HTH.
Edit: ISBN does not seem to be part of the info for a book’s community page, at least not for the ones I checked. And also written_by is optional – my book doesn’t have it. So you’ll only get that info if it is actually provided.

Can't add likes to the fields param

According to the Facebook Graph API documentation, the fields param acts as a result mask:
By default, most object properties are returned when you make a query.
You can choose the fields (or connections) you want returned with the
"fields" query parameter.
Indeed, this works fine for most fields. For instance, /7354446700?fields=name,picture returns:
{
"name": "Grooveshark",
"id": "7354446700",
"type": "page",
"picture": "https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/203560_7354446700_6819703_q.jpg"
}
However, for some reason, as soon as the likes field is added to the fields list, things break down. For instance, /7354446700?fields=name,picture,likes returns:
{
"name": "Grooveshark",
"id": "7354446700",
"type": "page",
"picture": "https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/203560_7354446700_6819703_q.jpg",
"likes": {
"data": [
]
}
}
Even more strange, if I omit the other two fields (name and pictures), sending only likes, I get
{
"likes": {
"data": [
]
}
}
The reason I find this extra-strange is because the "mandatory" fields (id and type) which should be added to every response are not included here (although they were included when fields=name,picture,likes).
What appears to be happening is that the field=likes parameter appears to be misinterpreted as a Connections request rather than simply a field mask, hence the data segment that normally appears when you'd call /7354446700/likes.
Is there a good reason for this? Is there any other way to get the likes field without fetching the entire object? I can't imagine this would be expected behavior, so I assume it is a bug, but I thought I'd ask here first before filing one.
This indeed appears to be a bug; I've checked internally and there's an as yet unresolved task open to fix this issue which was reported to us in our bug tracker previously.
In the meantime, the default return value for a page will include the 'likes' field even if it cant be retrieved solely.