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ActiveContext

Structure Class

ActiveContext dataclass

Contains information about the contexts that a user is using in a session. You can configure Amazon Lex V2 to set a context when an intent is fulfilled, or you can set a context using the , , or operations.

Use a context to indicate to Amazon Lex V2 intents that should be used as follow-up intents. For example, if the active context is order-fulfilled, only intents that have order-fulfilled configured as a trigger are considered for follow up.

Attributes

context_attributes instance-attribute
context_attributes: dict[str, str]

A list of contexts active for the request. A context can be activated when a previous intent is fulfilled, or by including the context in the request.

If you don't specify a list of contexts, Amazon Lex V2 will use the current list of contexts for the session. If you specify an empty list, all contexts for the session are cleared.

name instance-attribute
name: str

The name of the context.

time_to_live instance-attribute

Indicates the number of turns or seconds that the context is active. Once the time to live expires, the context is no longer returned in a response.