mr-rigden / alexa_template

A template and tutorial for building an Alexa Skill written in Python focused on readability.

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issue with non-existing session attributes

Following the tutorial on YouTube and using the template code here will fail in Sessions, because event['session]['attributes'] doesn't exist at time of calling the intent handler. In addition, the on_launch() returns a statement() with 'shouldEndSession' set to True.

One solution is:

• Return conversation() in on_launch() with a {} passed as third parameter
• Add a simple check for the 'attributes' dictionary to exist in the intent_router() and create it if it doesn't yet.

There was a problem with the requested skill's response

Hey,
Very nice tutorial, I followed the steps and understood a bit more about the alexa workflow.

But after setting up my lambda function and my alexa skill with your templates and configuring the endpoints, when testing I get the error :

"There was a problem with the requested skill's response"
and the JSON output is NULL.

I might have done something wrong somewhere, but it would be awesome to have a mini-tutorial on
how to test this sample function;

like utterances and sample responses, or expected outputs for LaunchRequest and so it goes.

Best, Tiago

KeyError

Hello!
I'm having trouble trying the codes from your tutorial, I keep getting KeyErrors.
def lambda_handler(event, context): if event['request']['type'] == "LaunchRequest": return on_launch(event, context)
I get KeyErrors from the 'request' and 'type'
here are the error messages
{ "errorMessage": "'request'", "errorType": "KeyError", "stackTrace": [ [ "/var/task/lambda_function.py", 4, "lambda_handler", "if event['request']['type'] == \"LaunchRequest\":" ] ] }
Here is the error log:
START RequestId: 70dd82f9-6bc3-11e8-b25c-c14a803a833c Version: $LATEST 'request': KeyError Traceback (most recent call last): File "/var/task/lambda_function.py", line 4, in lambda_handler if event['request']['type'] == "LaunchRequest": KeyError: 'request'
Can someone explain to me what is causing the KeyError? How do I fix this?
Thank You!