Re: [csjava-developer] Jabber chatbot framework

[Daryl V. H. <dva...@sf...>]

It should be under csjava.chatbot.*, though if you're viewing the CVS 
tree through SourceForge's viewer, it's csjava.csjava.chatbot.*.
There are three files, MessageListener.java, JabberBotFramework.java, & 
JabberBotTest.java.
The version numbers (if you need them) are 1.3, 1.2, & 1.1, respectively.

I don't think that changing it from threaded to event-listening would be 
too hard, I'd just have to change it a little bit.

I noticed I also need to add some more JavaDoc comments to indicate what 
certain methods do.
I should be updating it some soon.

The demo I have does exactly what you suggested, though I think I might 
be able to make it a little more interesting by sending something like 
"You sent this:", then whatever they sent.

Suggestions as to what it should do would be appreciated, although I 
don't have much experience with text-based user interaction.

Daryl.

Toby Donaldson wrote:

> Daryl,
>
> I just updated from the CVS tree, and I don't see the Jabber code. 
> Where should I look for it?
>
> I think it's probably simpler to use events instead of threads for the 
> asynchronous chatting, if you know what I mean. Treat the messages 
> that come from the Jabber server like events. The Smack library should 
> have support for this.
>
> Also, I've been chatting with a Surrey high school IT teacher about 
> running a Turing Test contest using Jabber, and if a demo is ready I'd 
> like to let him try it (i.e. at least chat to it).
>
> Toby
>
> Daryl Van Humbeck wrote:
>
>> Hi, all!
>>
>> The Jabber chatbot framework is now at a state of some usefulness, 
>> you can log-in to a server, listen for messages and send messages.
>>
>> It uses Jivesoft's Smack toolkit (which made the framework code 
>> _much_ smaller), so you'll need to download it and point the projects 
>> classpath to two of the files, smack.jar and smackx.jar, in order to 
>> use the program.
>>
>> Just so you know, the test program logs into jabber.org, so if only 
>> one person uses the bot unaltered, it will log into jabber.org with 
>> the username "csjavaChatBot," and everyone can chat with it.
>>
>> I probably shouldn't have used threads to listen for messages, but I 
>> hadn't been sure of how it works, so I'll probably change it later.
>>
>> To log into a server, just create a new instance of 
>> JabberBotFramework, using the host name, username, and password (and 
>> optionally, port) that you want to use.
>> The constructor will throw an org.jivesoft.smack.XMPPException if a 
>> problem occurrs, so you need to catch it.
>>
>> For examples, look at the file JabberBotTest.java in the same package 
>> as the JabberBotFramework, csjava.chatbot.*.
>>
>> To send a message, you just call .sendMessage(msg, to), where msg is 
>> the String message to send, and to is the username to send it to.
>>
>> To listen for messages, add a MessageListener to your copy of the 
>> JabberBotFramework with .addMessageListener(messageListener).
>>
>> That's basically it. If you want more functionality (it currently 
>> only supports text messages), please post saying so.
>> Though I'm not sure how to recieve HTML, etc. messages.
>>
>> Anyway, here it is.
>>
>> Daryl.
>>
>>
>
>
>



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