Alexa skills failure LAMBDA - There was a problem with the requested skill's response

2
votes

I am playing with alexa skill and I keep on getting the "there was a problem with the requested skill's response."

Here's my basic lambda skill 

"use strict";

// Include the Alexa SDK
var Alexa = require("alexa-sdk");

// The handlers object tells Alexa how to handle various actions
var handlers = {
    
    "LaunchRequest": function () {
      this.emit(":tell", "Launching HelloWorld"); 
    },
    "WelcomeIntent": function () {
      this.emit(":tell", "Welcome Intent calling");
    }
};


// This is the function that AWS Lambda calls every time Alexa uses your skill.
exports.handler = function(event, context, callback) {

    var alexa = Alexa.handler(event, context);

  
    alexa.registerHandlers(handlers);
    alexa.execute();
};

Here's the log from the test

{
	"version": "1.0",
	"session": {
		"new": true,
		"sessionId": "amzn1.echo-api.session.4e78e426-cc1f-41ac-a820-34969b5b4a84",
		"application": {
			"applicationId": "amzn1.ask.skill.750c0348-2471-4f06-801d-c87b3765b3c5"
		},
		"user": ...
	},
	"context": {
		"System": {
			"application": {
				"applicationId": ...
			},
			"user": ...,
			"device": ...,
			"apiEndpoint": "https://api.amazonalexa.com",
			"apiAccessToken": ...
		}
	},
	"request": {
		"type": "LaunchRequest",
		"requestId": "amzn1.echo-api.request.da1c2415-5f32-405e-8642-690f67285561",
		"timestamp": "2018-09-01T21:13:32Z",
		"locale": "en-US",
		"shouldLinkResultBeReturned": false
	}
}

Is there any setting I missed? I am only doing the inline coding.

1
alexaalexa-skills-kit
Put a log and please share the response JSON generated, especially when you get this error. – johndoe
I am not getting the JSON output at all. What could be missing? – Kapil Raghuwanshi

1 Answers

0
votes

Use ask-sdk instead. Latest v2 has different implementation of SDK and will be better for future support.

Follow the steps in here. Once setup you can create and modify intent handler's according to your need:

https://ask-sdk-for-nodejs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Setting-Up-The-ASK-SDK.html#installing-standard-ask-sdk-distribution