issue with non-existing session attributes

[Marakai]

Following the tutorial on YouTube and using the template code here will fail in Sessions, because event['session]['attributes'] doesn't exist at time of calling the intent handler. In addition, the on_launch() returns a statement() with 'shouldEndSession' set to True.

One solution is:

• Return conversation() in on_launch() with a {} passed as third parameter
• Add a simple check for the 'attributes' dictionary to exist in the intent_router() and create it if it doesn't yet.

[pcakhilnadh]

def counter_intent(event,content):
    """
    in order to maintain the session , return the session object in every response
    """
    if 'attributes' in event['session']:
        session_attributes=event['session']['attributes']
        if 'counter' in session_attributes:
            session_attributes['counter']+=1
        else:
            session_attributes['counter']=1
    else:
        event['session']['attributes']={}
        session_attributes=event['session']['attributes']
        if 'counter' not in session_attributes:
            session_attributes['counter']=1
    return conversation("SessionIntent",session_attributes['counter'],session_attributes)
    

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