Jovo Conversational Component: GetEmail

Getting Started

The component provides a prepackaged solution to get your user's email address.

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Installation

You can install the component using npm:

$ npm install --save jovo-component-get-email

After that, you use the Jovo CLI to transfer the component's files to your project using te load command:

$ jovo load jovo-component-get-email

Last but not least you have to include the component in your app.js:

// @language=typescript
// src/app.ts

import { GetEmail } from './components/jovo-component-get-email';

app.useComponents(new GetEmail());

// @language=javascript
// src/app.js

const { GetEmail } = require('../components/jovo-component-get-email/index');

app.useComponents(new GetEmail());

Response

The component's $response has the following interface:

{
    status: "SUCCESSFUL" | "REJECTED" | "ERROR",
    data: {
        email: "string"
    }
}

The data property will only be defined, if the component was successful!

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Configuration

The component allows you to fetch the users email address, either with Account Linking (Alexa|GoogleAssistant) or Contact Permissions (Alexa). Based on which one you want to choose, you need to configure the component accordingly.

// config.js

module.exports = {
  // ...
  components: {
    'jovo-component-get-email': {
      alexa: {
        type: 'contact-permissions|account-linking',
        //
        // If you choose to use account linking in your skill,
        // you have the option to choose either Login-With-Amazon or Auth0 as a provider.
        //
        // accountLinkingProvider: 'login-with-amazon'
        //
        // accountLinkingProvider: 'auth0'
        // uri: 'https://your-profile.auth0.com/userinfo'
      },
      googleAssistant: {
        // For Google Assistant, as of now, Account Linking is the only option to fetch a users email address.
        // As for Alexa, you have the choice between Auth0 or the platform-specific provider Login-With-Google.
        //
        accountLinkingProvider: 'login-with-google',
        //
        // accountLinkingProvider: 'auth0',
        // uri: 'https://your-profile.auth0.com/userinfo'
      },
    },
  },
};

If you choose, the Alexa Contact Permissions, you have to add the permission to your project.js file:

// project.js

module.exports = {
  alexaSkill: {
    nlu: 'alexa',
    manifest: {
      permissions: [
        {
          name: 'alexa::profile:email:read',
        },
      ],
    },
  },
  // ...
};

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