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Trying to grab intent from Amazon Alexa

Hello!

I'm new to building an Amazon Alexa skill and the course I'm taking seems to be a bit outdated. In the course, it says to use event.request.intent to get the intent of the user. However, I'm getting an undefined error. Should I be using something else to get the intent?

exports.handler = function(event, context) {
    console.log(event.request.intent);   
}

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Produces this error
TypeError: Cannot read property 'intent' of undefined
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leakim971

the error say "event.request" is null

most of this call run asynchronously and you program end before being able to read the value
we need to see more code tp help you

Daniel Williams

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There's really not much to it inside of the Alexa skill. If I comment out the console.log() statement, it works okay and I get the statement "Tractors are big, green, and cool. I need to know if there's a different way to get the request intent.

exports.handler = function(event, context) {
    //console.log(event.request.intent);   
    
    context.done(null, {
       "version": "1.0",
       "response": {
           "outputSpeech": {
               "type": "PlainText",
               "text": "Tractors are big, green, and cool."
           }
       }
    });
}

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