I am creating an Alexa factskill that asks the user for some information on their health, and users respond with a score from 1-10 depending on the level of pain in different areas. I then input the data into a DynamoDB table, which stores the information(score out of 10) for the four health questions (swelling, feeling, sleeping, breathing) and the user ID. However, the entries are not giving a timestamp for when they were created. I was wondering if there was a way to make a timestamp for preferably every health question response, but also a timestamp for the entire entry would help. Would I have to use any external SDKs, as I was looking up DynamoDB documentations and didn't find out any way to add a timestamp.
Below is my index.js code for my Lambda function that is used for my Alexa skill.
'use strict';
const Alexa = require('alexa-sdk');
const SKILL_NAME = 'Home Assist';
const HELP_MESSAGE = 'You can say I want to input my data';
const HELP_REPROMPT = 'What can I help you with?';
const STOP_MESSAGE = 'Goodbye!';
const handlers = {
'LaunchRequest': function () {
this.emit('HomeAssistQuestions');
},
'HomeAssistQuestions': function () {
this.attributes.healthscores = {
'patientID' : 0,
'scores': {
'feeling': {
'score': 0
},
'sleeping': {
'score': 0
},
'breathing': {
'score': 0
},
'swollen': {
'score': 0
}
}
};
if(this.event.request.dialogState !== 'COMPLETED'){
this.emit(':delegate');
}
else{
const feelingScore = this.event.request.intent.slots.feelingRating.value;
const sleepingScore = this.event.request.intent.slots.sleepingRating.value;
const breathingScore = this.event.request.intent.slots.breathingRating.value;
const swollenScore = this.event.request.intent.slots.SwollenRating.value;
const id = this.event.request.intent.slots.id.value;
this.attributes.healthscores.patientID = id;
this.attributes.healthscores.scores['feeling'].score = feelingScore;
this.attributes.healthscores.scores['sleeping'].score = sleepingScore;
this.attributes.healthscores.scores['breathing'].score = breathingScore;
this.attributes.healthscores.scores['swollen'].score = swollenScore;
this.response.speak("Health Scores Recorded");
this.emit(':responseReady');
}
},
'AMAZON.HelpIntent': function () {
const speechOutput = HELP_MESSAGE;
const reprompt = HELP_REPROMPT;
this.response.speak(speechOutput).listen(reprompt);
this.emit(':responseReady');
},
'AMAZON.CancelIntent': function () {
this.response.speak(STOP_MESSAGE);
this.emit(':responseReady');
},
'AMAZON.StopIntent': function () {
this.response.speak(STOP_MESSAGE);
this.emit(':responseReady');
},
'SessionEndedRequest': function(){
this.emit('saveState', true);
}
};
exports.handler = function (event, context, callback) {
const alexa = Alexa.handler(event, context, callback);
alexa.dynamoDBTableName = 'HealthScores';
alexa.APP_ID = "amzn1.ask.skill.d5b8d597-eb50-41c6-a22d-b0f18c23b544";
alexa.registerHandlers(handlers);
alexa.execute();
};
You can try something like this:
...
this.attributes.healthscores.scores['swollen'].score = swollenScore;
this.attributes.healthscores.timestamp = Date.now();
this.response.speak("Health Scores Recorded");
...