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Handling multiple slots in single intent

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Mechdude

Handling multiple slots in single intent
« on: October 28, 2015, 05:16:20 am »
Does anyone know if this is possible?
I have an intent like {
{
    "intents":
        [
            {
           {
                    "intent": "Values",
                        "slots":
                        [
                            {
                                "name": "Value1",
                                "type": "LITERAL"
                             },
             {
                                "name": "Value2",
                                "type": "LITERAL"
                            }
                        ]
                    },....

in  my code I have the following:
    var value1 = intent.slots[0];
    var value2 = intent.slots[1];

however when I try to run this both values are undefined. I also tried
    var value1 = intent.slots.Value1;
    var value2 = intent.slots.Value2;

But got the same result, they were both undefined. Does anyone know if this is indeed possible? and if so how would I get the values in code?

Thanks for your time

Mechdude

Re: Handling multiple slots in single intent
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2015, 07:28:19 am »
Seems I had a mismatch in the JSON as I was sending an Array of slots, and this was not expected on the lambda. Removing the [] fixed it for me

Offline jwlv

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Re: Handling multiple slots in single intent
« Reply #2 on: October 28, 2015, 05:12:57 pm »
I have not seen much documentation on the data structure of intents.
But it would seem that you cannot nest them. That is, no multi-dimensional arrays.