How to return handlerinput.responsebuilder inside a function using node js for Alexa Skill

Question

I have been struck as to how to return handlerinput.responsebuilder to speak the value stored inside the variable of a function for my Alexa Skill. I am using ask-sdk-core node js for building my Alexa Skill. The function I am using is as below. Please help me in solving this.

function callback(out)
{
    var jsonurl=out;   
    console.log(jsonurl)

    return handlerInput.responseBuilder
                .speak(jsonurl)
                .getResponse();

}

Answer 1

I think you have not included handlerInput in callback function params. Try doing like below :

  handle(handlerInput) {
     var out = ""

        getJSON(function(data) {
            console.log(data)
            if (data !== "ERROR") {
                 var speechOutput = data
                   out = speechOutput;
             }
         });

     function getJSON(callback) 
     {
            //As I don't know what result might be So I am giving some string value.
              var result = 'Thank you !!';
             if (result!=='') {
                 callback(result);
              } else {
                  callback("ERROR");
              }
     }
        return callback(out,handlerInput)
  }

};

function callback(out, handlerInput)
{

  const jsonurl=out;
  console.log(jsonurl)


  return handlerInput.responseBuilder
         .speak(jsonurl)
         .getResponse();

}

The above one worked perfectly fine for me and I am getting the given result to the out variable. I think there might be a problem in the result you are getting from the URL can you check that one weather it is string or object.