Alexa: respond with response from service (node v2 SDK)

Question

I´m playing with the Alexa API. I want to have Alexa respond with content received from a service.

not sure where to add the promise. I tried with this but Alexa is saying "There was a problem with the requested skill's response"

const HelloWorldIntentHandler = {
    canHandle(handlerInput) {
        return handlerInput.requestEnvelope.request.type === 'IntentRequest'
            && handlerInput.requestEnvelope.request.intent.name === 'HelloWorldIntent';
    },
    handle(handlerInput) {

        MyService.facts().then(function(data) {

            const speechText = 'No facts';

            if (data) {
                speechText = 'random facts: '
                data.forEach(function (fact) {
                    speechText += fact;
                })
            }

            return handlerInput.responseBuilder
                .speak(speechText)
                .reprompt(speechText)
                .getResponse();

        }, function(err) {
            console.log(err);
        });

    }
};

Were you able to solve this? I am struggling with the same thing. — user1366265, May 16 '18 at 15:31

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 27 '18 at 18:03

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Promise's response is not used. How about this example:

async handle(handlerInput) {
    return await MyService.facts().then(function(data) {
        // other stuff
    });
}

edited Apr 27 '18 at 18:03

Kristianmitk

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answered Apr 27 '18 at 15:50

Shinichi Hirauchi

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This is the only thing that ever seems to work for me consistently with asynchronous calls in AWS. – dillon.harless Apr 11 '19 at 15:57

Alexa: respond with response from service (node v2 SDK)

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