We have developed a Google Action with Dialogflow that responds to personalized requests from users and performs some tasks that require a certain amount of time, usually several minutes.
Our goal is to announce the result of the tasks using the "Broadcast" feature of Google Assistant, but we can't find a way to send the command to Google Assistant.
Our agent receives the user's request and launches a Java application that executes the task, so it is the Java application that must communicate with Google Assistant when the process is finished.
From the Java application we can communicate with the agent using Dialogflow RPC API, but not with Google Assistant.
Is there any way to send the request to Google Assistant from the Java app? or... since we can communicate with our Google Action Agent... how could we send the request through the agent?
In other words, could the agent communicate with google assistant to use any of its features, for example, "Broadcast ..."?
We have checked Google Assistant SDK as alternative, but we are confused about it.
Please, excuse me for my bad English.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
The "Broadcast" feature is not available to user-developed Actions, and probably not a good scheme to use in any event - if users will need to wait for a while for an answer, they probably don't want the answer suddenly announced when they're not expecting it.
Actions are typically meant to be conversational, rather than taking a while to reply with the answer, which is why there is a 5 second limit on how long the fulfillment has to do processing. If you do need to take a while, you have a few options available to you:
First is that you can use some other method outside of the Assistant to deliver the answer - possibly using something like Firebase Cloud Messaging or sending email to the user.
Similarly, you might be able to use notifications. In this scenario, your Java program would send a notification through the Assistant to the user when the information is available and store the result. The user can then activate the notification to continue the conversation and get the result. This has the advantage that the answer isn't just blurted out, possibly when the user isn't ready for it, but does have a downside that speakers don't (yet) support notifications.
You can also look into using a Media Response to set up a way for you to poll for new messages periodically. Under this scheme, you would fire off the Java program which would get the result and then store this in a way your fulfillment server can access. In your reply to the user saying you're working on the results, you would include a Media Response for some audio that plays for, say, 15 seconds. When the audio finishes, your Action will be called again and you can check to see if the result is available. If so, you send the result and continue or end the conversation. Otherwise, just send a Media Response.
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You cannot use Graph API in this scenario if you want it on behalf of External system. The API is only available when you are having delegated permission.
Other option would be to create a Notification only bot. In this case please keep in mind that the bot needs to be installed in Teams of user you want to send notification. You can use this graph API to install bot in user's Teams- Install app for User.
Once it is installed you need to have user's Conversation.Id and ServiceUrl (maybe store it in database for all users). When you are done with everything you can send Proactive messages.
I have been doing research for a couple of hours and haven't found any viable examples or information on how I could receive PayPal notifications for payments and process them within a Java Application.
What I want to do is:
Person makes payment.
PayPal sends a notification to the java program, indicating that they had made a payment, with email, usernames, amount, package name/ID, etc.
Java program processes the payment.
Perhaps I am looking at it the wrong way. So far I have found out that I need a webhook listener or some kind of IPN serverlet program that can read the POST messages PayPal sends and redirect them? Can't this be done directly within my java program?
Thank you!
As you've found, you really need to use Webhook (which is newer in PayPal) or IPN. This technologies let you to configure PayPal to send (as POST requests) certain events on a certain URLs. All you need to do in your program is to handle this events (requests) in Serlvet, RestHandler or whatever else.
I have to convert an existing distributed application to google app engine in order to use it's scalability advantages for a university assignment. I'm using a DeferredTask in order to do this. Now once the task is complete (or upon failure) I'd like to send some kind of response back to the user's browser but I have no idea how to do this. The google app engine docs don't really have any info on this either.
To send notifications back to user take a look on Channel API.
Or you can try to use datastore/memcache as a communication protocol between user and GAE. User will fetch URL every N seconds, and when entity is updated by taskqueue - do something.
I've been searching over the web but I can't seem to find some straight answer.
I've got an application developed and now I need to add it notifications. My issue is that I need each device to be unique and send each one of them a different notification. (I don't mean ONE UNIQUE notification) but I mean to send some users a notification and others don't.
How can this be done?
As a part of the GCM infrastructure, you will need to have your own web application that will allow individual instances of your app to register. When this happens, your Android application will pass to the web application a registration ID along with any additional information that you can use to identify the device. Once you have this information stored, you can pick and choose which device should receive your notification.
See: Architectural Overview section in the http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/gcm.html
I'm in the process of developing a web application (java + jsp) that can send notifications to users. The user can subscribe to multiple events generated by the application and can choose to receive the messages associated with those events via multiple channels (email, sms, growl?, messenger); perhaps different messages through different channels; perhaps a daily message digest. Everything must be configurable by the user. Is there some framework that deals with this?
Rmarimon, check out Boomerang Notification Framework from Fuel9. With some basic SQL skills you can quickly develop dynamic notifications (email, twitter, fax etc). Good luck!
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Take a look at Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS). It was just released (in beta). Looks pretty cool.
Agustin sends to email and SMS via twitter. Probably not exactly what you're after, but it might work.
There's also the Sun Java System Instant Messaging, which is not free.