Custom Slot Types don't appear in Alexa Tester

I originally logged this against alexa-app (here)and was told to try moving it here.

Trying to use a custom slot type, which basically looks like this in my intent:

    {
        "slots":{"COMMAND":"COMMAND_SLOT"},
        "utterances":[ "send {the|} {command|} {commands|COMMAND}" ]
    }

(where commands is an app.dictionary)

I’ve also tried:

    {
        "slots":{"COMMAND":"COMMAND_SLOT"},
        "utterances":[ "send {the|} {command|} {-|COMMAND}" ]
    }

In both cases, the Utterances properly appear in the Alexa Tester (using alexa-app-server 2.3.1), but the Custom Slot Type section of the tester is always empty. I was under the impression the custom slot type info should appear there to facilitate copy/pasting into the interaction model.

I started on alexa-app 2.3.4 and upgraded to 2.4.0 … same problem.

Thanks!

[dblock]

I think it never actually happened. Feel free to implement and PR. Thanks!

[lazerwalker]

Worth noting that alexa-app now supports custom slot type functionality like this: https://github.com/alexa-js/alexa-app/pull/275.

Some more work would be needed to expose it for folks who aren’t using the new Skill Builder schema, but it’d be straight-forward — app.customSlots has all the data you need.

Not something I personally have any interest in doing, but that’s now relatively low-hanging fruit if anyone else has the inclination.