Re: [csjava-developer] Jabber chatbot framework

[Alex T. <caf...@gm...>]

Hi everyone,

This chatbot looks good for an early stage - I'm trying to remember
all that stuff about the Smack library from first year, but I think I
know what it's doing.  To get two chatbots talking to each other,
there would have to be some external input first, wouldn't there?

-Alex

On 5/13/05, Toby Donaldson <tj...@sf...> wrote:
> Thanks Daryl,
>=20
> I was accidentally only looking in the csimage package.
>=20
> Could you make two or more chatbots, and have them talk to each other?
>=20
> Also, can you make a non-Jabber interface for easily testing the chatbots=
?
> It shouldn't be too hard.
>=20
> 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 interf=
ace
> 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 particu=
lar
> chatbot might be designed to work just with people, but those details sho=
uld
> go into the chabot, not into the chatbot interface.
>=20
> Toby
>=20
>=20
> On 5/13/05 11:54 AM, "Daryl Van Humbeck" <dva...@sf...> wrote:
>=20
> > 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, respectivel=
y.
> >
> > I don't think that changing it from threaded to event-listening would b=
e
> > 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 wha=
t
> > 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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>=20
> --
> Dr. Toby Donaldson
> School of Computing Science
> Simon Fraser University
>=20
>=20
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes
> Want to be the first software developer in space?
> Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes!
> http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3D7393&alloc_id=3D16281&op=3Dclick
> _______________________________________________
> csjava-developer mailing list
> csj...@li...
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/csjava-developer
>