flask-ask-sdk 1.0.0

The Flask ASK SDK package provides support for using ASK SDK and Flask, to deploy custom skills as webservice

Flask ASK SDK - Extending ASK SDK to work with Flask

flask-ask-sdk is the extension package, that will let skill developers use ASK SDK package in their Flask application. It provides an easy way to register and use skills as custom webservices.

Quick Start

If you already have a skill built using the ASK SDK skill builders, then you only need to do the following, to set this up in your flask app:

from flask import Flask
from ask_sdk_core.skill_builder import SkillBuilder
from flask_ask_sdk.skill_adapter import SkillAdapter

sb = SkillBuilder()
# Register all handlers, interceptors etc.
# For eg : sb.add_request_handler(LaunchRequestHandler())

app = Flask(__name__)
skill_response = SkillAdapter(
    skill=sb.create(), skill_id=<YOUR_SKILL_ID>, app=app)

skill_response.register(app=app, route="/")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app.run()

Are you planning to deploy your skill on AWS Lambda? Then, you don’t even need this package. The ASK SDK provides a lambda_handler that can be directly used in your lambda console.

More code examples can be found here.

Features

• Works as an extension on skills built using ASK SDK. No need to learn something new.

• Provides default request signature and request timestamp verification. These can be configured on app level by setting / unsetting app configuration.

• Provides a way to register multiple skills on your app, at different endpoints.

Installation

Important

cryptography is a dependency for this package. If you have not already installed cryptography, you might need to install additional prerequisites as detailed in the cryptography installation guide for your operating system.

Assuming that you have Python and virtualenv installed, you can install the package and it’s dependencies (ask-sdk-webservice-support, flask) from PyPi as follows:

$ virtualenv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip install flask-ask-sdk

This package is not installed along-side ask-sdk standard distribution, and has to be installed separately if you need support for skill deployment as webservice, using Flask.

SDK Usage and Getting Started

Getting started guides, SDK Features, API references, samples etc. can be found in the technical documentation

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CHANGELOG

0.1

• Initial release of Flask ASK SDK extension package.

0.1.1

This release contains the following changes :

• Fix setting the custom user agent on the skill instance, when initializing the handler.

1.0.0

This release contains the following changes :

• Move the webservice adapters to GA.