skill-properties-demo

Demonstrates how defined properties can be utilized to change a skills behaviour using said properties.

Properties definition

What (and how many) properties are defined is at the skill developers discretion. Properties are defined within the skill.yml definition.

This demo can be configured using the MANIPULATION_METHOD property which is defined as following:

properties:
  - name: "MANIPULATION_METHOD"
    desc: "Configures how the skill manipulates requests"
    default: "UPPER"
    pattern: "(UPPER|LOWER|CAPITALIZE)"

If the property is omitted it will default to UPPER as defined. Using pattern allows the skill developer to restrict the property values to the defined regex pattern. In this case the value can only be UPPER, LOWER or CAPITALIZE.

Properties access

Properties can be accessed from the context in the defined handler module and function:

...
def evaluate(payload, context):
    manipulation_method = context.properties['MANIPULATION_METHOD']
...

or directly from the environment:

...
import os

def evaluate(payload, context):
    manipulation_method = os.environ.get('MANIPULATION_METHOD')
...

NOTE: Currently only the second method is supported