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I am looking to create a super simple counter in a conversation in a firebase function using actions for google.

the documentation recommends:

app.intent('Default Welcome Intent', conv => 
 conv.data.someProperty = 'someValue'
)

However, typescript does not recognise any kind of dot notation after conv.data as a value, and does not allow the code to deploy.

however, as far as I can determine, using

app.intent('Default Welcome Intent', conv => 
 conv.data["someProperty"] = 1;
)

Does, but doesn't seem to permit counting the int...

I have tried:

conv.data['currentIndex'] = parseInt(conv.data['currentIndex']) + 1;


conv.data['currentIndex'] = parseInt(conv.data['currentIndex'])++;


conv.data['currentIndex'] += 1;

I feel I am missing something super fundamental here.

Thanks

I think you need to explicitly specify types of variables you want to use.

Try defining interfaces like:

//use this in conv.data

interface ConvData 
 counter?: number 


// use in conv.user.storage
interface UserStorage 
 location?: string
 name?: string

and initializing the app as:

const app = dialogflow<ConvData, UserStorage>( debug: true )

and then using

app.intent('Default Welcome Intent', conv => 
 conv.data.counter = 1
)

Reference: Actions on Google TS sample

https://github.com/actions-on-google/actions-on-google-nodejs/blob/935d0f9adfe78a4f9eb83ab4bb0fb9f6a7db2001/samples/ts/app/name-psychic/functions/src/index.tsx

Hope that helps!