AWS lex slots are behaving very strange

Question

I'm trying to create a bot in Lex and I'm using the default one provided by the platform(BookTrip). Here when I enter some random text when I as prompted for city, it is taking anything, though it is a valid city or not.

please let me know if I'm going wrong somewhere and how can I fix this.

Thanks

you should write some validation code – sid8491 May 30 '18 at 07:25 — sid8491, May 30 '18 at 07:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 30 '18 at 01:51

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The built-in slot types are not limited to their lists.

So it is good practice to validate the slot values yourself in Lambda.

answered May 30 '18 at 01:51

Jay A. Little

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 07 '18 at 18:29

The built-in slots have a big room to take on values that might not be valid, this happens for cities, names, emails, etc. To avoid this is to fill out the Corresponding utterances for each slot in the console.

An advanced way would be to attach a Lambda that gets called with the intent, then verify each slot value received to verify it matches your validation

AWS lex slots are behaving very strange

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