AMAZON.Time

Converts words that represent times into time values. AMAZON.Time can resolve exact times, ambiguous values, and time ranges. The slot value can resolve to the following time ranges:

When a user enters an ambiguous time, Amazon Lex V2 uses the slots attribute of a Lambda event to pass resolutions for the ambiguous times to your Lambda function. For example, if your bot prompts the user for a delivery time, the user can respond by saying "10 o'clock." This time is ambiguous. It means either 10:00 AM or 10:00 PM. In this case, the value in the interpretedValue field is null, and the resolvedValues field contains the two possible resolutions of the time. Amazon Lex V2 inputs the following into the Lambda function:

"slots": {
    "deliveryTime": {
    "value": {
        "originalValue": "10 o'clock",
        "interpretedValue": null,
        "resolvedValues": [
            "10:00", "22:00"
        ]
    }
}

When the user responds with an unambiguous time, Amazon Lex V2 sends the time to your Lambda function in the interpretedValue field of the slots attribute of the Lambda event. For example, if your user responds to the prompt for a delivery time with "10:00 AM," Amazon Lex V2 inputs the following into the Lambda function:

"slots": {
    "deliveryTime": {
        "value": {
        "originalValue": "10 AM",
        "interpretedValue": 10:00,
        "resolvedValues": [
            "10:00"
        ]
    }
}

When the user responds to a prompt for a delivery time with "in the morning," Amazon Lex V2 inputs the following into the Lambda function:

"slots": {
    "deliveryTime": {
    "value": {
        "originalValue": "morning",
        "interpretedValue": "MO",
        "resolvedValues": [
            "MO"
        ]
    }
}

For more information about the data sent from Amazon Lex V2 to a Lambda function, see AWS Lambda input event format for Lex V2.