I am using the Amazon Alexa Skill Management API (SMAPI) for the goal of cloning one of my skills, and changing key variables such as the skill name and I can do that successfully: I GET the manifest, make some changes, and CREATE a new skill using that updated manifest.
Then I wait for the skill status to finish being created, and then I am able to successfully GET my blueprint skill's interaction model, but when I UPDATE the new skill with the interaction model, I receive this error:
"{"message": "The specified skill or locale does not have a model associated."}"
I've been searching through the API for a way to "associate" a model for the new skill before updating, but I can't find anything. The API does say that using Update Interaction Model "Creates an InteractionModel for the skill." So I am expecting it to create the model if the skill does not have one associated yet.
I have contacted and not yet heard back from Amazon Support.
DETAILS
Here are the steps I am attempting which result in the above error:
I'm using my own webpage built in PHP to manage my Alexa Skills using SMAPI.
First I use Amazon Login to gain an access_token with required permissions:
alexa::ask:skills:read
alexa::ask:skills:readwrite
alexa::ask:models:read
alexa::ask:models:readwrite
alexa::ask:skills:test
This successfully returns an access_token. I then use the access_token to get the list of skills. Then ouput those skills with a button to clone it. That will use the skill's ID as the blueprint skillId below.
Clone Skill code:
//GET THE MANIFEST OF THE BLUEPRINT SKILL
$manifestObj = getAlexaSkillManifest($access_token, $skillId);
//CHANGE THE NAME IN THE SKILL MANIFEST
$manifestObj['manifest']['publishingInformation']['locales']['en-US']['name'] = "clone test";
//CREATE NEW SKILL USING BLUEPRINT MANIFEST
$createdSkill = createAlexaSkillManifest($access_token, $vendorId, $manifestObj['manifest'], $body);
$newSkillId = $createdSkill['skillId'];
//SUCCESSFUL SO FAR
//GET BLUEPRINT SKILL'S INTERACTION MODEL
$blueprintSkillIntents = getAlexaSkillIntents($access_token, $skillId);
//CHECK AND WAIT FOR THE NEW SKILL TO BE COMPLETELY CREATED BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO UPDATE THE NEW SKILL'S INTERACTION MODEL
for ($i=0; $i <= 3; $i++) {
$status = getAlexaSkillStatus ($access_token, $newSkillId);
if($status['manifest']['lastUpdateRequest']['status']=="SUCCEEDED") {
//LOGGING HERE SHOWS THIS FIRES AFTER NEW SKILL STATUS IS COMPLETE
//UPDATE NEW SKILL INTERACTION MODEL
$newSkillIntents = updateAlexaSkillIntents($access_token, $newSkillId, $blueprintSkillIntents);
break;
}
sleep(1);
}
Get the blueprint interaction model function (SUCCESSFUL):
function getAlexaSkillIntents ($access_token, $skillId, $stage="development", $version="~current") {
$locale="en-US";
$url = "https://api.amazonalexa.com/v1/skills/$skillId/stages/$stage/interactionModel/locales/$locale/versions/$version";
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Authorization: '.$access_token));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, 'CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION_NONE');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$result = json_decode($result, true);
return $result;
}
//SUCCESSFULLY RETURNS THE INTERACTION MODEL OF THE BLUEPRINT SKILL
Update the new skill Interaction Model function (ERRORS):
function updateAlexaSkillIntents ($access_token, $skillId, $intentModel, $stage="development") {
$intentModel=json_encode($intentModel);
$locale="en-US";
$url = "https://api.amazonalexa.com/v1/skills/$skillId/stages/$stage/interactionModel/locales/$locale";
$fp = fopen('php://temp/maxmemory:256000', 'w');
if (!$fp) { die('could not open temp memory data'); }
fwrite($fp, $intentModel);
fseek($fp, 0);
$ch = curl_init($url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER, true);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILE, $fp); // file pointer
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_INFILESIZE, strlen($intentModel));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array('Authorization: '.$access_token));
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION, 'CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION_NONE');
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$result = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
$result = json_decode($result, true);
return $result;
}
That $result returns the error from Alexa SMAPI:
"{"message": "The specified skill or locale does not have a model associated."}"
How can I resolve this error? or How should I go about using SMAPI to clone a skill?
