com.amazon.speech.speechlet.dialog.directives

Class DialogDirective

java.lang.Object

com.amazon.speech.speechlet.Directive

com.amazon.speech.speechlet.dialog.directives.DialogDirective

Direct Known Subclasses:

ConfirmIntentDirective, ConfirmSlotDirective, DelegateDirective, ElicitSlotDirective

public abstract class DialogDirective
extends Directive

Abstract superclass for Dialog.* directives. Each Dialog directive supports an optional updatedIntent field. A skill may use this field to update slot values or confirmation statuses of the intent, for example, to fill in empty slots with information the skill already knows about a user; or to clear an existing slot value/confirmation status if the value is no longer valid.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
DialogDirective()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
DialogIntent	getUpdatedIntent() Get the updated intent object to use in subsequent turns of the dialog.
void	setUpdatedIntent(DialogIntent updatedIntent) Provide an updated intent object to use in subsequent turns of the dialog.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

DialogDirective

public DialogDirective()

Method Detail

getUpdatedIntent

public DialogIntent getUpdatedIntent()

Get the updated intent object to use in subsequent turns of the dialog. Null indicates there are no updates to the existing slot values or confirmations.

Returns:

the updated intent

setUpdatedIntent

public void setUpdatedIntent(DialogIntent updatedIntent)

Provide an updated intent object to use in subsequent turns of the dialog. All slot values and confirmation provided by the updated intent will replace the existing values and confirmations; if no slot values or confirmations are provided, then they will all be unset. May be left unset or set to null to indicate that that there are no updates to the existing slot values or confirmations.

Parameters:

updatedIntent - the updated intent