URL Parameter [speech-to-text]

[hkgian]

Doing a conversation with a customer today, we found out that the URL for Watson Speech-to-text service deployed in Frakfurt is different, which brakes compatibility with the Frakfurt datacenter for this service.

This issue is affecting all the watson services on the Frankfurt region

To recreate:

• create a watson service in the Frankfurt region.
• try to use this npm package to connect to the services
• you will receive a 401 error (the Watson endpoint is different for the frankfurt region and so url and credential don't match, hence the 401)

Suggestion:

My idea would be to hide this complexity to the developer, and provide an optional parameter to select the location of the service, using a standard format. Internally keep track of this relation using an array with services url for each reagion for each service

[chughts]

There already is an optional parameter: url

Eg.

var translator = new LanguageTranslatorV2({
  username: 'LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR USERNAME',
  password: 'LANGUAGE TRANSLATOR PASSWORD',
  version: 'v2',
  url: 'https://gateway.fr.watsonplatform.net/language-translator/api'
});