Module: Google::Cloud::Dialogflow::Agents

Defined in:
lib/google/cloud/dialogflow.rb

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.new(version: , credentials: , scopes: , client_config: , timeout: ) ⇒ Object

Agents are best described as Natural Language Understanding (NLU) modules that transform user requests into actionable data. You can include agents in your app, product, or service to determine user intent and respond to the user in a natural way.

After you create an agent, you can add Intents, Contexts, Entity Types, Webhooks, and so on to manage the flow of a conversation and match user input to predefined intents and actions.

You can create an agent using both Dialogflow Standard Edition and Dialogflow Enterprise Edition. For details, see Dialogflow Editions.

You can save your agent for backup or versioning by exporting the agent by using the ExportAgent method. You can import a saved agent by using the ImportAgent method.

Dialogflow provides several prebuilt agents for common conversation scenarios such as determining a date and time, converting currency, and so on.

For more information about agents, see the Dialogflow documentation.

Parameters:

  • credentials (Google::Auth::Credentials, String, Hash, GRPC::Core::Channel, GRPC::Core::ChannelCredentials, Proc) —

    Provides the means for authenticating requests made by the client. This parameter can be many types. A Google::Auth::Credentials uses a the properties of its represented keyfile for authenticating requests made by this client. A String will be treated as the path to the keyfile to be used for the construction of credentials for this client. A Hash will be treated as the contents of a keyfile to be used for the construction of credentials for this client. A GRPC::Core::Channel will be used to make calls through. A GRPC::Core::ChannelCredentials for the setting up the RPC client. The channel credentials should already be composed with a GRPC::Core::CallCredentials object. A Proc will be used as an updater_proc for the Grpc channel. The proc transforms the metadata for requests, generally, to give OAuth credentials.

  • scopes (Array<String>) —

    The OAuth scopes for this service. This parameter is ignored if an updater_proc is supplied.

  • client_config (Hash) —

    A Hash for call options for each method. See Google::Gax#construct_settings for the structure of this data. Falls back to the default config if not specified or the specified config is missing data points.

  • timeout (Numeric) —

    The default timeout, in seconds, for calls made through this client.

  • metadata (Hash) —

    Default metadata to be sent with each request. This can be overridden on a per call basis.

  • exception_transformer (Proc) —

    An optional proc that intercepts any exceptions raised during an API call to inject custom error handling.

Parameters:

  • version (Symbol, String) —

    The major version of the service to be used. By default :v2 is used.



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# File 'lib/google/cloud/dialogflow.rb', line 145

def self.new(*args, version: :v2, **kwargs)
  unless AVAILABLE_VERSIONS.include?(version.to_s.downcase)
    raise "The version: #{version} is not available. The available versions " \
      "are: [#{AVAILABLE_VERSIONS.join(", ")}]"
  end

  require "#{FILE_DIR}/#{version.to_s.downcase}"
  version_module = Google::Cloud::Dialogflow
    .constants
    .select {|sym| sym.to_s.downcase == version.to_s.downcase}
    .first
  Google::Cloud::Dialogflow.const_get(version_module)::Agents.new(*args, **kwargs)
end