"errorMessage": "event is not defined" in lambda function

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I am creating my first Alexa skill which fetches data from dynamodb table. I am naive in node.js and alexa both. I was successfully able to create a sample Space geek skill set , and then when I created my own skill set I used the same package( to make sure the libraries, response files remain the same) but only changed the index.js ( which is my lambda funnction). When I am testing this function on lambda console , I am getting the below error:

{
  "errorMessage": "event is not defined",
  "errorType": "ReferenceError",
  "stackTrace": [
    "Module._compile (module.js:570:32)",
    "Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)",
    "Module.load (module.js:487:32)",
    "tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)",
    "Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)",
    "Module.require (module.js:497:17)",
    "require (internal/module.js:20:19)"
  ]
}

This function used to work perfectly fine without using alexa. Now I am not able to debug the issue. I tested this from alexa skill testing then got the below error:

The remote endpoint could not be called or response it returned was invalid

My folder structure is:

-Node_Modules

-index.js

-template.yaml

Any pointers are highly appreciated.

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aws-lambdaalexaalexa-skills-kitalexa-skill
Are you referencing event somewhere in your code? Without seeing the code it looks that way. I'm assuming in Lambda you're trying to reference the event to get the payload from Alexa but it sounds like you're not doing that correctly. – alanwill
can you post your code? – imTachu

1 Answers

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In your index.js, you should have a function with event in argument, even if you don't use it :

exports.handler = (event, context, callback) => { [...] };