Re: [csjava-developer] Jabber chatbot framework

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

You can use Swing window if you like ... Although to start with, interacting
with the chatbot at the console is probably fine (e.g. Like the command-line
in Python).

Toby


On 5/13/05 3:42 PM, "Daryl Van Humbeck" <dva...@sf...> wrote:

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

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Dr. Toby Donaldson
School of Computing Science
Simon Fraser University