4.0.1 (2019-03-29)
- add compare comply keyword to package.json (to trigger release) (7905445)
4.0.0 (2019-03-28)
- icp: disabling ssl verification now works for websocket connection (f8466c8)
- update ibm-cloud-sdk-core to 0.1.1 (29f87df)
- remove support for node 4 (1548413)
- remove all code dealing with api_key in the base class (92d48e2)
- conversation: remove conversation service and all associated code (c810de2)
- dialog: remove dialog service and all associated (7d7408f)
- language-translator-v2: remove language translator v2 service and all associated code (83d9232)
- personality-insights: remove Personality Insights v2 (e5e5302)
- assistant-v1: change name of variable
export
to_export
(91ed5a4) - assistant-v2: parameter names changed for v4 (f6adbe9)
- compare-comply: parameter names changed for v4 (908d8e7)
- refactor core code to use
axios
instead ofrequest
for network requests (f656731) - discovery: remove compatibility layer for discovery (8571a1f)
- discovery: rename model
QueryResultResultMetadata
toQueryResultMetadata
(b1a124c) - natural-language-classifier: remove compatibility layer for natural language classifier (0ac087c)
- natural-language-understanding: remove compatibility layer for natural language understanding (359cc79)
- personality-insights-v3: remove compatibility layer for personality insights v3 (1b27685)
- speech-to-text: remove compatibility layer for speech to text (310bdd0)
- text-to-speech: remove compatibility layer for text to speech (6994d3c)
- tone-analyzer: remove compatibility layer for tone analyzer (9f10898)
- visual_recognition: v4 changes (3957e2d)
- in
query
andfederatedQuery
, only accept string values for certain parameters. (06d7c65) - in discovery, rename
getSourceCredentials
togetCredentials
(6fac701) - visual-recognition: remove compatibility layer for visual recognition (6377067)
- remove index.ts file as it was deprecated starting in v3 (4ea3c27)
- remove module for converting training_data to csv (dd534f6)
- require filenames for
createStopwordList
in discovery andconvertToHTML
in compare comply (8f7c62f) - stop using cookies in requests (09e0e91)
- discovery: add new methods:
createTokenizationDictionary
,deleteTokenizationDictionary
, andgetTokenizationDictionaryStatus
(d5ba660) - discovery: new parameters added to match updates to the service (838b044)
- add
sort
query parameter togetWorkspace()
(1df75ac) - add model
MessageContextSkill
(15a4c7f) - new error formatter, provides the same information regardless of service (c324ab0)
- The SDK now returns a Promise for all methods if a callback is not specified. Callbacks can still be used for backwards compatibility. (fd6e20b)
-
visual_recognition: For
updateClassifier
andcreateClassifier
, the parameter{classname}_positive_examples
is changed to a map calledpositive_examples
with classnames as keys.- See the migration guide, UPGRADE-4.0.md, for more information.
-
Node 4 will no longer be supported, considered during development, or tested with.
- To migrate your code, upgrade to a newer major version of Node.
-
assistant-v2: For
updateValue
, parameternew_type
is changed tonew_value_type
. ForupdateDialogNode
, parameternew_type
is changed tonew_node_type
.- These method renames are breaking changes. Update the method names to migrate your code.
-
There is no more
index.ts
file, so importing withrequire('watson-developer-cloud')
will no longer work.- To migrate your code, import only the services that you need, e.g.
require('watson-developer-cloud/speech-to-text/v1')
.
- To migrate your code, import only the services that you need, e.g.
-
The methods
createStopwordList
in discovery andconvertToHTML
in comply comply now have new, required parameters- To migrate your code, include the parameter
stopword_filename
forcreateStopwordList
, andfilename
forconvertToHTML
- To migrate your code, include the parameter
-
assistant-v1: The Assistant v1 parameter
export
is now_export
is all instances.- To migrate your code, change any use of the
export
parameter to_export
.
- To migrate your code, change any use of the
-
The SDK used to document and allow array values for these parameters, converting them to strings to be sent to the service.
- To migrate your code, convert any array values for these parameters to comma-separated values in a string.
-
The module
json-training-to-csv
is no longer available.- To migrate your code, provide
training_data
to NLC as a CSV file.
- To migrate your code, provide
-
Cookies will no longer be sent or stored in requests. This should have very little impact on usage but is techincally a breaking change.
- This affects internal functionality but has no effect on client code.
-
Errors objects returned from service errors are now different
- To migrate your code, see the upgrade guide for the new error structure
-
Network responses received in callback function may now have different structures (results and errors). Requests no longer return a Stream.
- See the UPGRADE-4.0.md file for more information.
-
personality-insights: Personality Insights v2 is no longer available in the SDK
- To migrate your code, use Personality Insights v3:
-
compare-comply: Parameter
model_id
has been changed tomodel
for the following methods: convertToHtml, classifyElements, extractTables, compareDocuments, deleteFeedback, getFeedback, createBatch, and updateBatch -
speech-to-text: Deprecated methods in Speech to Text are no longer available. Changed parameter names are no longer interally corrected.
- To migrate your code, use the methods and parameters currently available with the service as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/speech-to-text/api/v1/node.html?node
-
text-to-speech: Deprecated methods in Text to Speech are no longer available. Changed parameter names are no longer interally corrected.
- To migrate your code, use the methods and parameters currently available with the service as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/text-to-speech/api/v1/node.html?node
-
visual-recognition: Deprecated methods in Visual Recognition are no longer available. Changed parameter names are no longer interally corrected.
- To migrate your code, use the methods and parameters currently available with the service as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/visual-recognition/api/v3/node.html?node
-
tone-analyzer: Deprecated methods in Tone Analyzer are no longer available. Changed parameter names are no longer interally corrected.
- To migrate your code, use the methods and parameters currently available with the service as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/tone-analyzer/api/v3/node.html?node
-
personality-insights-v3: Deprecated methods in Personality Insights v3 are no longer available. Changed parameter names are no longer interally corrected.
- To migrate your code, use the methods and parameters currently available with the service as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/personality-insights/api/v3/node.html?node
-
natural-language-understanding: The
version_date
parameter in Natural Language Understanding is no longer supported.- To migrate your code, use the parameter name
version
instead.
- To migrate your code, use the parameter name
-
natural-language-classifier: Deprecated methods in Natural Language Classifier are no longer available. Changed parameter names are no longer interally corrected.
- To migrate your code, use the methods and parameters currently available with the service as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/natural-language-classifier/api/v1/node.html?node
-
discovery: Deprecated methods in Discovery are no longer available. Changed parameter names are no longer interally corrected.
- To migrate your code, use the methods and parameters currently available with the service as documented here: https://www.ibm.com/watson/developercloud/discovery/api/v1/node.html?node
-
conversation: The Conversation service will no longer be available
- To migrate your code, use the Assistant v1 or v2 service.
-
language-translator-v2: The Language Translator V2 service will no longer be available
- To migrate your code, use the Language Translator V3 service.
-
dialog: The Dialog service will no longer be available
- To migrate your code, use the Assistant v1 or v2 service.
-
Support for the
api_key
parameter has been removed.- For instances of Visual Recognition, use
iam_apikey
to authenticate.
- For instances of Visual Recognition, use
-
discovery: The name of the model
QueryResultResultMetadata
has been changed toQueryResultMetadata
- To migrate your code, use the model
QueryResultMetadata
instead ofQueryResultResultMetadata
:
- To migrate your code, use the model
3.18.4 (2019-03-28)
- allow users to use
iam_apikey
when authenticating for icp (cdccbc1)
3.18.3 (2019-03-19)
- expose token manager from core code as a module (4376e7c)
3.18.2 (2019-03-15)
- make
access_token
an allowable query parameter in recognize / synthesize streams (a2ad09e)
3.18.1 (2019-02-14)
- use dotenv v5 to maintain node 4.x compatibility (c311651)
3.18.0 (2019-02-06)
- compare-comply: new constants and new model properties added (d9dc7cc)
- discovery: add method
getStopwordListStatus
(ea9eaf9) - speech-to-text: optional parameter
force
added to the methodupgradeAcousticModel
(ceaa843)
3.17.0 (2019-02-04)
- enable reading credentials from ibm-credentials.env file (ce02aa8)
3.16.1 (2019-01-19)
- fix
getTransactionId
method for theRecognizeStream
class (e5bbe2c)
3.16.0 (2019-01-17)
- discovery: add methods
createStopwordList
,deleteStopwordList
,createGateway
,deleteGateway
,getGateway
, andlistGateways
(8a6753e) - speech-to-text: new methods added: addGrammar, deleteGrammar, getGrammar, listGrammars (7ab567a)
- visual-recognition: parameter
accept_language
added to methoddetectFaces
(82190c7)
3.15.4 (2019-01-15)
- fix bug that prevents
audio
from being sent as a buffer forrecognize
(3f97b80)
3.15.3 (2019-01-15)
- package.json to reduce vulnerabilities (e61d1de)
3.15.2 (2019-01-14)
- query parameters no longer cause text-to-speech over websockets to crash (775e6d2)
- Remove the
disabled
property fromCreateDialogNode
. It is for internal use only. (4b72d0e)
3.15.1 (2019-01-07)
- add
disabled
property to CreateDialogNode (41cd8dc) - add
user_defined
property to MessageOutput model (ea28bf3)
3.15.0 (2018-12-07)
- add support for Compare and Comply service (fa22ae5)
- discovery: adds new model, RetrievalDetails (1821719)
- natural-language-understanding: new properties added to models to match the service (3bf1e5e)
3.14.0 (2018-12-06)
- text-to-speech: add support for using
synthesize
over a websocket connection (94ba896)
3.13.1 (2018-11-26)
- discovery: update mis-defined parameters to match the service (d1fb9a9)
- speech-to-text:
content_type
is no longer a required parameter forrecognize()
orcreateJob()
(it is now optional) (d64c06a) - speech-to-text: add support for
language_customization_id
parameter to the WebSockets method, deprecatecustomization_id
(bf2cd68)
3.13.0 (2018-10-30)
- discovery: add new methods:
createTokenizationDictionary
,deleteTokenizationDictionary
, andgetTokenizationDictionaryStatus
(d5ba660)
3.12.0 (2018-10-10)
- discovery: new parameters added to match updates to the service (838b044)
3.11.1 (2018-09-28)
- icp: disabling ssl verification now works for websocket connection (f8466c8)
3.11.0 (2018-09-24)
- add support for assistant v2 (8a99676)
3.10.0 (2018-09-13)
- new languages models supported for speech to text (a2669dd)
- support authenticating with ibm cloud private (0d1774c)
3.9.1 (2018-08-30)
- add an optional filename parameter for methods accepting a file (9a6cb59)
3.9.0 (2018-08-15)
- regenerate: add methods for new discovery metrics endpoints (f396eca)
3.8.0 (2018-08-07)
- regenerate service sdks 7/30/18 (0f95a92)
7/12/18
- Operations added for
Credentials
resource (Discovery)
7/11/18
- Support base_model_version parameter in
recognize()
(Speech-to-Text) - Authentication service now supports returning IAM tokens
6/25/18
- Fixes bug retrieving Assistant credentials from VCAP services
- Fixes bug that prevented IAM authentication with Speech to Text websockets
6/12/18
- Support for Language Translator V3
6/4/18
- Fixes bug for Visual Recognition service that caused authentication errors when reading credentials from VCAP Services or environment files
5/31/18
- Fixes bug for Visual Recognition service that gave the incorrect URL for CF instances. Old service instances no longer have to specify the URL
- General IAM authentication URL changed from https://iam.ng.bluemix.net/identity/token to https://iam.bluemix.net/identity/token
deleteUserData()
methods in Speech to Text, Text to Speech, Visual Recognition
5/18/18
- Updates dependencies to remove security vulnerability
- Adds methods
deleteUserData
to Assistant, Conversation, and Discovery
5/3/18
- Updates dependencies to be compatible with Node v10
4/26/18
-
Support for custom headers https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk#sending-request-headers
-
Support for retrieving HTTP response https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk#sending-request-headers
-
Support for IAM tokens, which will be supported by services in future releases.
4/5/18
-
Visual Recognition
- New method
getCoreMlModel
adds support for CoreML - Breaking:
detectFaces
no longer supports identity information in the response.name
,score
,type_hierarchy
removed from response Release notes
- New method
-
Natural Language Classifier
-
New method 'classifyCollection`
Conversation/Assistant
- timestamp parameters
created
andupdated
are optional, not required context
parameter is optional inmessage
3/15/18
- Renames Assistant from v1-generated to v1
3/15/18
- Adds Assistant Service (Conversation has been renamed to Assistant)
3/8/18
- Adds warnings to methods with changed names
- Ensures that new parameters are passed into methods when calling them using the older format used in the adapters.
3/7/18
Speech to text
- param
audio
is now required in recognize method - methods
createSession
,deleteSession
,getSessionStatus
deprecated
- All code is regenerated to reflect the newest versions of all services
- Methods with exclusively text/plain body parameters now are correctly generated
- Fixes linting in build
- Adds new linter, tslint for typescript files
SpeechToText:
addAudio
method: paramaudio_resource
is now type ReadableStream|FileObject|Buffer instead of ByteArray[]transfer-encoding
is removed fromrecognize
method
Conversation
include_audit
parameters are now supportednode_visited_details
is now supported
Tone Analyzer
- Adds support for
content_language
fortone_chat
endpoint
Visual Recognition
- Items in ‘parameters’ are now top level params
- services use
version
instead ofversion_date
and should pass in dates directly such as'2017-02-27'
instead of calling date constants.
- All .ts files are removed from the npm package
- Fixes issue of enforcing our typescript compiler settings when other typescript projects use our package
- All instances of ReadableStream changed to NodeJs.ReadableStream, blob type added to /lib/, both changes done to correctly link these types for typescript users
- [User-Agent] in header is no longer overwritten but instead appended, this change only affects metrics of this SDK
- Fixed bug in visual recognition to correctly use owners parameter
- Fixed bug in NLU where environment variables storing credentials were not read when running locally
- Dependencies updated to fix security vulnerabilities
- Added support for customization_weight or acoustic_customization_id in speech-to-text/v1
2017-11-29
This version contains several breaking changes.
Version 3.0 introduces automatically generated client code. The client code is generated from Swagger. Several deprecated services have been removed from this release. Furthermore, language has been changed from NodeJS to TypeScript, and file extensions have been changed from *.js
to *.ts
Services that are not affected in this release:
- Authorization
- Dialog
Services that are affected in this release:
- Conversation
- Discovery
- Language Translator
- Natural Language Classifier
- Natural Language Understanding
- Personality Insights
- Text to Speech
- Tone Analyzer
- Speech to Text
- Visual Recognition
Services that are removed in this release:
- Alchemy Language
- Alchemy Data News
- Document Conversion
- Retrieve and Rank
- Tradeoff Analytics
Upon upgrading the SDK, follow the migration guide here.
- Added support for
highlight
param inDiscoveryV1.query()
- DiscoveryV1.VERSION_DATE_2017_08_01 = '2017-08-01';
ToneAnalyzerV3.tone()
now acceptslanguage
parameter to specifycontent-language
header for input.
- Improved formatting of Alchemy Language error messages
- Added
ConversationV1.VERSION_DATE_2017_05_26
- Added
DiscoveryV1.updateJsonDocument
to complimentaddJsonDocument()
- Added
DiscoveryV1.addJsonDocument()
method to make uploading in-memory JSON structures easier - Fixed bug in
DiscoveryV1.addDocument()
that prevented setting custom filenames #474
- Added support for
fuzzy_match
param in Conversation entities methods - Added support for JSON metadata when adding documents to Discovery #474
- Discovery: fix createEnv with size 0
- Add natural_language_query and passages parameters to Discovery.query()
- Fix collection name param for Discovery.createCollection (#https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk/issues/457)
- Bumped
solr-client
dependency to latest version
- Added VisualRecognitionV3.VERSION_DATE_2016_05_20 constant
- Added support for sort param on DiscoveryV1.query() (#446)
- Added DiscoveryV1.VERSION_DATE_2017_04_27
- Made utterances a top-level param for ToneAnalyzerV3.tone_chat() (#439)
- Added support for Conversation entities (w/ values and synonyms) and logs
- Added support for updating Discovery environments
- Added tone_chat endpoint for Tone Analyzer
- Added support for WebM and Ogg/Vorbis formats to Speech to Text
- Fixed Visual Recognition credentials in dedicated environments (#436)
- bumped vcap_services library version
- Fixed bug with STT async recognition & multiple callback events
- Moved changelog to wiki
- Fixed issue when creating STT Async recognize job with multiple callback events (#415)
- Add support for Conversation Counter Examples API
- Correct name of
events
parameter in STT async recognize.
- Conversation sorting and pagination for workspaces, intents, and examples
- Natural Language Understanding: fixed credentials pulling from bluemix
- Natural Language Understanding: new version_date and addition of listModels() and deleteModel() methods
- STT RecognizeStream now exposes Transaction ID
- Restored support for Node.js 4.0-4.4
- Added support for Conversation intents and examples
- Speech to Text createRecognitionJob() now accepts all params from .recognize()
- Speech to Text getRecognitionJobs() accepts an optional params object in order to match the signature of the rest of the API
- Make callback_url optional for Speech to Text createRecognitionJob()
- Speech to Text Asychronous API support
- Added support for sort paramater in SpeechToTextV1.getWords()
- Added updateDocument() method to DiscoveryV1
- Fixed up internal code to avoid using the deprecated
new Buffer(...)
API - Improved documentation
- Conversation VersionDate 2017-02-03
- Added support for find_preferable_options flag in Tradeoff Analytics
- Added various methods to Conversation service to create and manage workspaces
- Prevent docs site files from being included in npm releases
- Fixed bug in STT getWords method (#390)
- No API changes, but significant internal changes. Should behave exactly the same, but releasing as a standalone version out of caution.
- Added NaturalLanguageUnderstandingV1
- Added support for pulling SERVICE_NAME_URL from enviroment properties along with username and password (or api key)
- stt.whenCustomizationReady() no longer incorrectly requires that a corpus be added. (#382)
- various JSDoc corrections
- Fix slightly-incorrect URL in Language Translator V2 example and error message
- SDK now emits missing parameter errors on returned stream if no callback is supplied (#368 / #377)
- Fix DocumentConversion#convert() to accept config params as documented in api ref
- Fix param checking on various TTS customization methods
- Fix incorrect error messages (#373)
- Fix issue where adding a document as buffer/string fails in Discovery v1 (#370)
- Fix issue where STT RecognizeStream could fail to emit speaker_labels event in rare circumstances
- Update jsdoc for Speech to text
- Expose discovery v1 in index
- Same fix for language translation
- Fixed DocumentConversionV1.convert() to accept config params as a seperate object, matching api ref documentation (#375)
- Fix regression in error handler that would incorrectly overwrite error message in some cases
- Fix isue where STT RecognizeStream could fail to emit a speaker_labels events in certain rare circumstances
- Added Discovery add createEnvironment and deleteEnvironment methods
- Fix Discovery addDocument when adding a Buffer
- Update JSDOc for speech to Text
- Expose discovery v1 in index.js
- Fix content type for language translation (#362)
- Fix content type for language translator (#362)
- Added Discovery V1 (general availability release)
- Added STT whenCorporaAnalyzed() helper, #353
- Bumped dependencies
- Added Speech to Text speaker_labels support, added new speaker_labels event to RecognizeStream
- Fixed main file path in package.json
- added a conversation example
- Added several methods and a version_date constant to DiscoveryV1Experimental
- Added version_date constants to ConversationV1, updated docs, examples, etc to latest version_date.
- Added customization_id support to STT RecognizeStream
- Allow VisualRecognitionV3.classify() to accept Buffers (with automatic content-type detection) or Objects with specified filename or content-type
- Improve Visual Recognition error formatting
- Document Conversion: Remove forced utf-8 charset header for html files
- Fixed issue with formatting multiple keywords for STT recognize() - #261
- Added
getCredentials()
method to base service, primarily for use with AuthorizationV1()
- dependency fix
- Speech to Text customization support
- Ensure errors are always instanceof Error
- Doc improvements
- Added support for Personality Insights V3
- Split LanguageTranslationV2 into a seperate service from LanguageTranslatorV2, added a warning when translator service is used without specifying a url since the default is currently incorrect.
- Fixed bug with setting user-agent header
- Fixed issue with send data on non-open WebSockets for STT RecognizeStream - see #322
- Fixed credential bugs in R&R and STT
- Fixed bug where credentials could be lost when calling certain methods in Language Translator and Dialog services
- Doc-only changes, focused on Language Translation/Translator differences and temporary workaround
- Fix issue with automatically loading Alchemy* credentials from the Bluemix environment
- Revert part of credential change: Alchemy* services again use
apikey
while visual recognition usesapi_key
(Most endpoints accept either, but this split follows the documented API for each service.)
- Added support for Visual Recognition similarity search beta
- Refactored handling of credentials to support constraints in similarity search
- Add support for RetrieveAndRankV1.rank() answers param
- Added support for creating and managing TTS Customizations
- Deprecation warning for Dialog
- Added TTS .voice() and .pronunciation() methods
- Added support for
customization_id
to existing TTS methods - Typo and JSDoc fixes
- Fixed bug with pulling api key from env properties for alchemy services
- Added profanity_filter support to STT RecognizeStream
- Corrected some examples to use - instead of _
- Renamed NLC folder to use - instead of _
- Updated AlchemyLanguageV1.emotion() to support new targeted_emotion parameter & endpoint
- Added Conversation/Tone Analyzer integration example
- Updated Readme & Examples to use newer constructor style
- Use actual Error instances for errors (#298)
- Added support for the
intents
,entities
andoutput
parameters in ConveersationV1.message() - Removed sunset services: Concept Insights and Relationship Extraction
- Dependency bump
- Added VisualRecognitionV3.retrainClassifier() to facilitate updating of existing custom classifiers
- Added support for
alternate_intents
parameter in ConversationV1.message()
- Breaking: prefer programatic (user-supplied) credentials over bluemix-provided ones (VCAP_SERVICES)
- New preferred method of instantiating services:
new watson.PersonalityInsightsV2({/*...*/});
instead ofwatson.personality_insights({/*...*/});
. Older method still works - Restructured code to support client-side usage via tools such as Browserify and Webpack. Most services support CORS; this will be documented and the remaining service teams will be nagged.
- Added a changelog to capture both major breaking changes and smaller
Several breaking changes were introduced with the v1.0.0 release:
- Experimental and Beta services now require the appropriate tag to be added to their version:
- Concept Expansion
v1
is nowv1-beta
- Question and Answer
v1
is nowv1-beta
- Relationship Extraction
v1
is nowv1-beta
- Tone Analyzer
v3
is nowv3
(latest) orv3-beta
(compatibility with old Beta plan) - Visual Insights
v1
is nowv1-experimental
- Visual Recognition
v1
is nowv1-beta
- Concept Expansion
- Speech to Text gained a new
createRecognizeStream()
method replacing the existing live streaming methods with a simpler Read/Write stream. The older methods are still available in v1.0 but each log a deprecation warning (unless{silent: true}
is passed in) and will be removed from a future release. The affected methods are:recognizeLive()
observeResult()
getRecognizeStatus()
- The Document Conversion API has been reduced to a single
convert()
method; it no longer offers batch conversion or cloud storage of files. - Several deprecated services have been removed:
- Message Resonance
- Tone Analyzer v1 and v2 (replaced by v3)
- Search (replaced by Retrieve and Rank)
- Dropped support for node.js v0.10.x (For reference: the WDC Node.js SDK now officially support the latest 0.12, LTS, and Stable releases of Node.js.)