feat(skill-interactor): handle multiple (concurrent) device ids

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feat(skill-interactor): handle multiple (concurrent) device ids

CoreyCole opened this issue 6 years ago · comments

I'm wondering how difficult it may be to simulate multiple users at once. When the SkillInteractor is instantiated, what would have to change for it to considered a different user?

Maybe alexa.launch() should have an optional deviceId parameter to launch the simulator with a second user? Not sure if this would be easy/possible to implement, but I'd be happy to help!

Corey Cole · Answer 1 · Tue May 15 2018 08:08:41 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Or, is this already supported and I simply need to create a second virtual-alexa instance using VirtualAlexaBuilder()? Trying this now

John Kelvie · Answer 2 · Tue May 15 2018 08:09:21 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I have not tried it, but if you instantiate multiple virtual alexas, you can set different deviceIds with each. The call is:

virtualAlexa.context().device().setID(<DEVICE_ID>)

I can't think of anything that will prevent concurrency - that said - it was not built with concurrency in mind. Let me know how it goes.

Corey Cole · Answer 3 · Tue May 15 2018 08:14:39 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Awesome, thank you for the quick response.

virtualAlexa.context().device().setID(<DEVICE_ID>)

Was exactly what I needed. Sorry to confuse, by concurrency I just meant at the same time in a single test- not programmatic async concurrency or anything fancy.