Build Out a Lita Skill to Take in Messages from Alexa
Alexa is sending you the JSON payload you need to push a user’s dictated message into Lita’s Redis storage. Here’s a step-by-step plan to make it work:
- Tell Lita to listen for POSTs on a specific URL route.
- Route those posts to a method that parses the JSON as a Ruby hashmap.
- Extract the message you want from the hashmap.
- Pass that message on to another Lita handler using a named trigger.
- Acknowledge receipt of the message back to Alexa.
If you get stuck in implementing this Lita handler, check out my finished code on GitHub.[61] It includes all of the methods and tests described in this chapter.
Tell Lita to listen for POSTs on a specific URL route
Listening for a POST on a specific URL is a ...
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