Not able to hook local simulator or ask-cli simulator to the local debugger about ask-toolkit-for-vscode

[tydonelson]

Hey @mohammedalnuaimi , I assume you've followed the setup steps here and used npm install to install the requisite ask-sdk-local-debug packages into your skill's package.json?

What step exactly is failing? Is the debug server successfully starting, and giving something like the following message?

A couple other things to check:

Is your ASK profile setup correctly and selected, like below?

Has your skill been deployed before at least once?

[mohammedalnuaimi]

Thanks @tydonelson yes I have followed this setup and even surfed the web to see if I have done something differently but couldn't find the reason, and yes I get the same as what in the above screen shots, there is no bug or errors, it's only the local simulator not triggering the debugger!

[tydonelson]

Hey @mohammedalnuaimi , couple more things you could check -

What region is specified for the skill debug session? Does that match the region where your skill is deployed?

[mohammedalnuaimi]

Thanks @tydonelson I have tried the three regions in the launch.json and getting the same result!

[mohammedalnuaimi]

The issue is the local debugger has to be triggered in a particular way before sending an invocation, so after pressing the debugger to run, I have to press continue couple of times to see further information about the debugger session time and the region, and then sending an utterance through the local simulator, at this point the debugger intercept the call