1. README
2. Requests & Responses
3. Request

Request

• Introduction
• $request Object

Introduction

The request is the incoming data that the platform sends to your app's endpoint. It consists of information like:

• User ID,
• Intent, e.g. MyNameIsIntent
• Input, e.g. name
• Session data, e.g. a state

and other things that might be relevant to your app. You can access the incoming request with this.$request.

Here's an example request:

In the Jovo Framework repository we keep sample requests for the most common types. You can find them here

$request Object

Besides the cross-platform getter and setter methods the Google Assistant $request object supports the following general helper methods: