Re: [csjava-developer] Jabber chatbot framework

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

Do you mean like write a Swing window that lets you view what the bot 
says and have a text input widget to let you talk to the bot?

I kind of think that there should be more test bots, I'll see what I can 
come up with.

Daryl.


Toby Donaldson wrote:

>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:
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>>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:
>>
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>>>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:
>>>
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>>>
>>>>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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>>>>
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