Alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-nodejs: error using Alexa Nodejs SDK

Created on 13 Jan 2017 · 13Comments · Source: alexa/alexa-skills-kit-sdk-for-nodejs

Getting below error when testing an alexa hello world skill using nodejs sdk.

Can somebody point out what am I doing wrong

TypeError: Cannot read property 'locale' of undefined
at AlexaRequestEmitter.HandleLambdaEvent (/var/task/n

The offending line in SDK is
function HandleLambdaEvent() { this.locale = this._event.request.locale;

Source

amitmawkin

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resolved it myself

amitmawkin on 13 Jan 2017

😕6

How did you resolve the issue? I'm getting the same thing.

codercross on 18 Jan 2017

I'm also getting this error. Running https://github.com/alexa/skill-sample-nodejs-howto ... Comes up after saving lambda a few times or uploading via zip.

@amitmawkin Any tips on how you resolved the issue?

pdclark on 20 Jan 2017

Make sure you are packaging your node_modules folder in the zip uploaded for your lambda function

amitmawkin on 22 Jan 2017

Use this starter template to ease deployment headaches.
Alexa Skill Serverless Starter Template

rmtuckerphx on 23 Jan 2017

@amitmawkin Can you please elaborate your approach for resolving this error? I didn't find any proper solution to this problem so far. I'm including my node_modules folder in the zip file uploaded to lambda, but i'm getting the same error again and again.. Thanks in advance.

AnonDEmaYan on 9 Apr 2017

@pdclark did you able to solve your problem. I am having the same. No idea what I am doing wrong.

rahul606 on 15 Apr 2017

Remember to zip the contents, not the folder itself! Have you tried that?

muttoni on 15 Apr 2017

@muttoni I have two js files and node_modules folder which I am zipping. I assume this is the right way !!

rahul606 on 15 Apr 2017

Hey guys it is a packaging issue. Usage of frameworks like serverless or others are recommended as they take care of packaging problems

amitmawkin on 15 Apr 2017

try this from terminal from within the your folder having index.js...
zip -r ../lambda.zip *

KumarAtwindsorinfosys on 16 Apr 2017

It can not be a packaging issue. I am hosting the skill on my Ubuntu server with Node and I have the same error with locale: en-us in my request. That locale is enabled and on my linux server.