Interaction did not trigger the preview of an action. about assistant-actions-nodejs

[mishushakov]

@atulep could you assist? thanks

[ujja]

@mishushakov I have the same problem. Do you have any progress there?

[mishushakov]

@ujja nope 😞

[ujja]

@mishushakov I have just a very basic action. I did not publish it.

I called just the writePreview endpoint (which fails now with internal error, but last week was working), then tried the sendInteraction endpoint.

I suppose now that there is some missing magical property/setting. Is yours published?

[mishushakov]

my action is not published
i don't know what causes the error and there is no explanation anywhere to be found on the internet

[atulep]

Hello @mishushakov, I apologize for a late reply here. It's not clear to me what's wrong yet. Typically, 400 error messages contain some useful info in details, which is how I usually debug. Is there a way you can inspect a response object?

[mishushakov]

full response body from auth.client

{
  "response":{
    "config":{
      "url":"https://actions.googleapis.com/v2/projects/action-builder-test-40291:sendInteraction",
      "method":"POST",
      "data":{
        "input":{
          "query":"Talk to Action builder test",
          "type":"KEYBOARD"
        },
        "deviceProperties":{
          "surface":"PHONE",
          "location":{
            "coordinates":{
              "latitude":-90,
              "longitude":-90
            },
            "formattedAddress":"1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043",
            "zipCode":"94043",
            "city":"Mountain View"
          },
          "locale":"en",
          "timeZone":"America/New_York"
        },
        "conversationToken":"test"
      },
      "headers":{
        "Authorization":"Bearer ya29.c.KqAB_gcwDaaI8ZOg9Xcf_uYVjTaRaCXYYBIZpkxRIHmDPY36vQzeIn1T8w8WQzk33RFQc7J1NGru8GCUkYp86b44YjImPY2AydaVjCxbpbV6DZqRHJht47Vwu_BGVBxXjAxU6zPRspJlLkfqRauKYr_HE3aqaGtFJutl7U_NaoQpIR476Wel04862oaakiA3GRhwW-CaZzGCJECUgqMURH9OvA",
        "User-Agent":"google-api-nodejs-client/7.0.4",
        "x-goog-api-client":"gl-node/14.15.5 auth/7.0.4",
        "Content-Type":"application/json",
        "Accept":"application/json"
      },
      "body":"{\"input\":{\"query\":\"Talk to Action builder test\",\"type\":\"KEYBOARD\"},\"deviceProperties\":{\"surface\":\"PHONE\",\"location\":{\"coordinates\":{\"latitude\":-90,\"longitude\":-90},\"formattedAddress\":\"1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043\",\"zipCode\":\"94043\",\"city\":\"Mountain View\"},\"locale\":\"en\",\"timeZone\":\"America/New_York\"},\"conversationToken\":\"test\"}",
      "responseType":"json"
    },
    "data":{
      "error":{
        "code":400,
        "message":"Interaction did not trigger the preview of an action.",
        "errors":[
          {
            "message":"Interaction did not trigger the preview of an action.",
            "domain":"global",
            "reason":"badRequest"
          }
        ],
        "status":"INVALID_ARGUMENT"
      }
    },
    "headers":{
      "alt-svc":"h3-29=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-T051=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q050=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q046=\":443\"; ma=2592000,h3-Q043=\":443\"; ma=2592000,quic=\":443\"; ma=2592000; v=\"46,43\"",
      "cache-control":"private",
      "connection":"close",
      "content-encoding":"gzip",
      "content-type":"application/json; charset=UTF-8",
      "date":"Tue, 11 May 2021 10:11:20 GMT",
      "server":"ESF",
      "transfer-encoding":"chunked",
      "vary":"Origin, X-Origin, Referer",
      "x-content-type-options":"nosniff",
      "x-frame-options":"SAMEORIGIN",
      "x-xss-protection":"0"
    },
    "status":400,
    "statusText":"Bad Request",
    "request":{
      "responseURL":"https://actions.googleapis.com/v2/projects/action-builder-test-40291:sendInteraction"
    }
  },
  "config":{
    "url":"https://actions.googleapis.com/v2/projects/action-builder-test-40291:sendInteraction",
    "method":"POST",
    "data":{
      "input":{
        "query":"Talk to Action builder test",
        "type":"KEYBOARD"
      },
      "deviceProperties":{
        "surface":"PHONE",
        "location":{
          "coordinates":{
            "latitude":-90,
            "longitude":-90
          },
          "formattedAddress":"1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043",
          "zipCode":"94043",
          "city":"Mountain View"
        },
        "locale":"en",
        "timeZone":"America/New_York"
      },
      "conversationToken":"test"
    },
    "headers":{
      "Authorization":"Bearer ya29.c.KqAB_gcwDaaI8ZOg9Xcf_uYVjTaRaCXYYBIZpkxRIHmDPY36vQzeIn1T8w8WQzk33RFQc7J1NGru8GCUkYp86b44YjImPY2AydaVjCxbpbV6DZqRHJht47Vwu_BGVBxXjAxU6zPRspJlLkfqRauKYr_HE3aqaGtFJutl7U_NaoQpIR476Wel04862oaakiA3GRhwW-CaZzGCJECUgqMURH9OvA",
      "User-Agent":"google-api-nodejs-client/7.0.4",
      "x-goog-api-client":"gl-node/14.15.5 auth/7.0.4",
      "Content-Type":"application/json",
      "Accept":"application/json"
    },
    "body":"{\"input\":{\"query\":\"Talk to Action builder test\",\"type\":\"KEYBOARD\"},\"deviceProperties\":{\"surface\":\"PHONE\",\"location\":{\"coordinates\":{\"latitude\":-90,\"longitude\":-90},\"formattedAddress\":\"1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043\",\"zipCode\":\"94043\",\"city\":\"Mountain View\"},\"locale\":\"en\",\"timeZone\":\"America/New_York\"},\"conversationToken\":\"test\"}",
    "responseType":"json"
  },
  "code":400,
  "errors":[
    {
      "message":"Interaction did not trigger the preview of an action.",
      "domain":"global",
      "reason":"badRequest"
    }
  ]
}

[mishushakov]

is there anything i'd need to do on the actions side?

[ujja]

{
    "code": 3,
    "details": "Interaction did not trigger the preview of an action.",
    "metadata": {
        "internalRepr": {},
        "options": {}
    }
}

[ujja]

I have created more projects with dialogflow, and with actions sdk.

Has tried with my company account and with my private one. Everyone failed with the same result.

Maybe it is possible to reproduce it on a new project (I have used Conversation Components sample).

[atulep]

@mishushakov,

It appears to be the reference docs are missing one field in the SendInteractionRequest: project. It should be a string in the following format: projects/{projectId}. Can you include that in your request and try again?

We'll update the reference. However, I'd also recommend checkout out googleapis repo as it contains Actions API protos and is updated automatically when we make public facing changes. For example, the project field is listed there.

I was only able to figure this out by looking at server logs, so I'll see if we can improve the error message in the API response.

[mishushakov]

hey,
i have added project field to my SendInteractionRequest, but i still get the same error

[atulep]

@mishushakov, I apologize for delayed reply here - I'm just coming back from vacation.

Did you call WritePreview endpoint before invoking SendInteraction?

[mishushakov]

hey, i didn't call WritePreview

[atulep]

Can you try that? Calling WritePreview is a prerequisite for calling SendInteraction.

[mishushakov]

sorry, can i call WritePreview method from the actions console?
docs didn't mention it was a prerequisite for SendInteraction...

[atulep]

I don't think you can call it from the Console. You should use WritePreview in your code. The README in this repo shows some sample code - https://github.com/actions-on-google/assistant-actions-nodejs#using-the-client-library.

[mishushakov]

thanks a lot, i tried a bit harder this time and was finally able to trigger my action!

thanks for all your support 👍

[ujja]

@mishushakov What did you changed?

[mishushakov]

@ujja i have called WritePreview in my code, after that i was able to trigger the interaction