Re: [csjava-developer] Jabber chatbot framework

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

Not to mention a delay so they're not hogging bandwidth, etc.
You also want to be able to follow their conversation, not have this 
whole long list of stuff they've said to read.

Daryl.

Toby Donaldson wrote:

>Good point. At least one of the chabots must be able to "take the
>initiative" and start the conversation. The simplest way is probably just to
>have it send a "hello" message as soon as it begins the conversation.
>
>Toby
>
>
>On 5/13/05 3:42 PM, "Alex Tsai" <caf...@gm...> wrote:
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>>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:
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>>>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.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>            
>>>>>>
>>>>>          
>>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>--
>>>Dr. Toby Donaldson
>>>School of Computing Science
>>>Simon Fraser University
>>>
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