Why aren't IDs being passed to my lambda function?

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hoid asked Mar 7, '18

Why aren't IDs being passed to my lambda function?

I have IDs set in my interaction model. For example, for a User Story, I might have User and Story as synonyms, with story as the ID. The ID is supposed to be value my program uses internally to move data and make requests. The problem is that I'm always getting the value in the request json to my lambda function, but never the ID that's defined in the Interaction Model. Here's the json for the request object, in which I say "User Story" for the TicketType:

{
    "locale": "en-US",
    "timestamp": "2018-03-07T22:26:22Z",
    "type": "IntentRequest",
    "requestId": "amzn1.echo-api.request.b59bed66-97cd-4e60-8538-cce43cdf3222",
    "dialogState": "COMPLETED",
    "intent": {
        "name": "OpenTicketIntent",
        "confirmationStatus": "CONFIRMED",
        "slots": {
            "Assignee": {
                "name": "Assignee",
                "confirmationStatus": "NONE",
                "value": "tcheek"
            },
            "Project": {
                "name": "Project",
                "confirmationStatus": "NONE",
                "value": "IMJ"
            },
            "Summary": {
                "name": "Summary",
                "confirmationStatus": "NONE",
                "value": "my issue"
            },
            "TicketType": {
                "name": "TicketType",
                "confirmationStatus": "NONE",
                "value": "user story"
            }
        }
    },
    "name": ""
}

Why might this be happening?

My skill id is: amzn1.ask.skill.0dcee2d2-be99-45c2-9661-9d9d3e5b1ae2

alexa skills kit lambda interaction model dialog model

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hoid commented · Mar 18, 2018 at 09:37 PM

Bumping this post again, since it hasn't gotten a reply

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Jamie Grossman ♦♦ commented · Mar 19, 2018 at 03:03 AM

Investigating.

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indieshack Jamie Grossman ♦♦ commented · Mar 22, 2018 at 12:02 PM

Jamie, any updates on this? It functionally borks the use of synonyms for a slot since the synonym appears to be passed as the slot value (not the slot canonical)

Thanks

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Answer 1 · 2018-03-18T23:01:48Z

indieshack answered Mar 18, '18

I also have IDs set in my interaction model and they aren't being passed - a previous thread on this issue indicated that they are being passed in the German version of Alexa service but not the US version.

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Answer 2 · 2018-03-22T12:46:37Z

SI answered Mar 22, '18

Hello! I had a similar issue which involved my resolutions objects not being sent to my lambda function. I read somewhere on another forum that this can occur if your device's language is not the same as the country under your account.

However, I'm from the US and my language was set as en-US, so I thought that this couldn't have been the issue, right? However, I went to my account settings and changed my country from US to a random address in the UK and then back to my US address and my issue was resolved.

While I really hope this wasn't what solved my issue (as it would be a GLARING bug), I'm not sure what else it could have been. Please try this out and let me know if this works for you too.

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