Lex responses

We have just seen two of the different response types that can be returned to Lex. There are currently five different types of response that Lex can handle:

• elicitSlot
• elicitIntent
• confirmIntent
• close
• delegate

These can all be found at http://bit.ly/chatbot-ch5 in the All-Lex-Responses.js file. You can then copy them into your future projects.

elicitSlot

The elicitSlot response type is very useful if you have been doing checks on your slot values and have found one of them to be incorrect. You can then ask the user to re-enter the value for that slot and make sure that Lex stores that in the correct slot.

To call elicitSlot, you need to pass in a message, the slots (an object containing all of the slots and...