Golang Skeleton Application to start an Alexa Skill
Since Alexa APIs are only accepting one endpoint per skill you can easily add several apps to one server. Even if you need to handle them separrately you dont need to implement oauth stuff over and over.
for building the skeleton I am using the following libs
- gin-gonic/gin gin http framework
- dtop/gin-alexa alexa enhancements for gin
- go-alexa/alexa actual alexa handling lib
- caarlos0/env env config lib
- go-oauth2/gin-server gin oauth server
since you need to edit the actual files to create your own skill(s) I would recommend to download the release version of this skeleton and create a new repo instead of forking it.
Chances that improvements on this skeleton will be mergable are not very good =(
do not forget to recreate the dependencies after downloading using glide
type Config struct {
ServerPort int `....`
Apps map[string]ginalexa.Configurable `...`
// your stuff
}Advisory: all config into Apps (inside of the map) will be passed to the actual EchoApplication obj
in ginlexa.go
func (gl GinLexa) setupApps() {
gl.apps["SampleApp"] = &ginalexa.EchoApplication{
AppID: "<<<SomeAppId>>>", // can be ommited if config is present
Config: gl.cfg.Apps["SampleApp"],
OnAuthCheck: sampleapp.OnAuth,
OnLaunch: sampleapp.OnLaunch,
OnIntent: sampleapp.OnIntent,
OnSessionEnded: sampleapp.OnSessionEnded,
}.Inject()
}Advisory: do not forget the .Inject() at end. this will give the appid to the obj if you did not give it to the struct
tbc: create wrappers for your data storage stuff along with the provided interfaces in /abstract/types.go
tbc