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One good use of session attributes is to capture and store user input through slots so you can use that information at a later time. This information is sent to your Lambda function as part of the JSON response.

To get a slot value, you first need to figure out how your slot is sent in the JSON request. The following is an example JSON request for a movie recommendation skill:

"request": {
    "type": "IntentRequest",
    "requestId": "EdwRequestId.d30fb1fe-8f09-4a80-ab90-b736c2959146",
    "intent": {
      "name": "SetGenreIntent",
      "slots": {
        "genres": {
          "name": "genres",
          "value": "horror"
        }
      }
    }

The structure of the JSON object tells us how to access user input. We can use the following format to set a genre session attribute to the value saved to a user slot input:

this.attributes['genre'] =  this.event.request.intent.slots.genres.value;

In this lesson we want Alexa to interpret the utterance, “Test my Ruby knowledge”, recognize “Ruby” as a slot value, and store it in the language session attribute for Alexa to use in later speech intents.

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In SetMyLanguageIntent, set the language session attribute so that it equals the user’s specified language. Look at the following JSON Request Object to construct your call:

"request": {
    "type": "IntentRequest",
    "requestId": "EdwRequestId.d30fb1fe-8f09-4a80-ab90-b736c2959146",
    "intent": {
      "name": "SetMyLanguageIntent",
      "slots": {
        "languages": {
          "name": "languages",
          "value": "ruby"
        }
      }
    },

In AnswerIntent, create a userAnswer variable and set it equal to the user’s answer. Look at the following JSON Request Object to construct your call:

  "request": {
    "type": "IntentRequest",
    "requestId": "EdwRequestId.494ef95d-29c8-40a8-914c-0cc740058d53",
    "intent": {
      "name": "AnswerIntent",
      "slots": {
        "answer": {
          "name": "answer",
          "value": "length"
        }
      }
    },

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