Re: [csjava-developer] Jabber chatbot framework

[Toby D. <tj...@sf...>]

Thanks Daryl,

I was accidentally only looking in the csimage package.

Could you make two or more chatbots, and have them talk to each other?

Also, can you make a non-Jabber interface for easily testing the chatbots?
It shouldn't be too hard.

The important thing is to make sure that the design of the chatbot is
well-done, so that you can just use the same chatbot in the Jabber interface
or the non-jabber interface. Also, the chabot interface should not assume it
is talking to a human or another chabot ... It should view the incoming
messages simply as strings from some unknown source. Of course, a particular
chatbot might be designed to work just with people, but those details should
go into the chabot, not into the chatbot interface.

Toby


On 5/13/05 11:54 AM, "Daryl Van Humbeck" <dva...@sf...> wrote:

> 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.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

-- 
Dr. Toby Donaldson
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University