Re: [Flora-development] XSB and Flora-2 wrappers for .NET and Python
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Re: [Flora-development] XSB and Flora-2 wrappers for .NET and Python
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From: <ki...@cs...> - 2007-01-17 21:25:29
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Hi Markus,
It looks very promising. I think it is best if you could coordinate
with Goncalo on the xsb.dll wrapper.
>From what he described, it looks like he is using the same model as the
Interprolog's Java interface, which is very convenient.
Regarding Python, it all looks very interesting. I would like to see a more
detailed description of how rules can be used from within
Python. Unfortunately, I am Python-illiterate right now, but would like to
learn.
You probably know that we now have a high-level interface from Java to
Flora where one can create Java proxy objects for Flora objects and then
manipulate them from within Java through get/set style methods.
This is far from seamless, so I would like to learn more on your design.
Does your code work with Linux through Mono?
best regards
--michael
> Dear Michael
>
> I'm fully dedicated to OpenSource and have allready added LGPL headers to=
>
> my source, so thats no problem. The wrapper is a .NET class library which=
>
> exports allmost all functions which are exported in xsb.dll (xsb_query,=20
> xsb_init, is_functor etc.). I have also included some examples for using=20
> the wrapper in VB.NET, C#.NET (using a simple Prolog program and a simple
>
> Flora-2 knowledge base). So it's just an export of the functions provided
>
> in xsb.dll (and since Flora-2 uses=20
> asserta(library_directory('C:\Flora2\dir')). and [flora2].=20
> bootrstrap_flora. I used xsb_command_string and xsb_query_string to load
> Flora-2). So far for the .NET wrapper. The Python wrapper I'm now working
>
> on should make it more intuitive for Python programmers to use Flora-2 as
>
> a knowledge base engine (e.g. translation of Python objects directly into
> Flora-2 F-molecules, using of queries and rules inside Python etc.) If you
> want to take a look at the code be it for the .NET wrapper or for the
> Python interface (done so far) just tell me where to send it :-)
>
> Best regards
>
> --
> Markus Schatten, dipl. inf.
> e-mail: mar...@fo...
> http://www.tiaktiv.hr
>
>
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Michael Kifer wrote:
>
> >
> > Dear Markus,
> > Thank you very much for the contribution.
> > To be included in either XSB or Flora-2, your files have to be released
> > under LGPL.
> >
> > I didn't quite understand what the wrapper around xsb.dll does.
> > Is it exporting things like xsb_query to .NET languages
> > (in this case it should be really part of XSB)?
> >
> > Or is it an object-oriented interface, which can talk to Flora-2 directly=
> ?
> > You alluded to this in connection with the Python wrapper, which is very
> > interesting.
> >
> >
> > =09regards
> > =09 --michael
> >
> >> Dear sirs,
> >>
> >> my name is Markus Schatten, I'm an assistant on the Faculty of Organizat=
> ion
> >> and Informatics in Vara=C5=BEdin, Croatia in Databases and Formal Metho=
> ds. One of
> >> my professors (dr.sc. Mirko =C4?ubrilo) asked me to develop a XSB and F=
> lora-2
> >> dll-wrapper for MS Visual Studio.NET, which I have developed using the
> >> C-binding of XSB. I'm not a .NET professional so there are probably some=
> bugs
> >> in the solution, but it works fine, and since I'm not sure if I will hav=
> e
> >> time to develop it further I'd like to contribute it to your projects, o=
> f
> >> course if there is interest in such a contribution.
> >> I've created a C# class which wraps around the xsb.dll and makes allmost=
> all
> >> functions exported in the dll available to all other .NET languages. I'v=
> e
> >> also implemented two methods for converting prolog terms to strings and
> >> printing of terms (allmost direct translation of printpterm in cmain2.c)=
> =2E
> >> Since my primary programming language is Python I also created a wrapper=
> for
> >> Python (using SWIG http://www.swig.org) which could be used to wrap XSB =
> and
> >> Flora-2 to all the other scripting languages supported by SWIG. The Pyth=
> on
> >> wrapper is not fully implemented by now since I'd like to make the inter=
> face
> >> more intuitive to Python programmers and will probably try to combine th=
> e
> >> power of Flora-2 and ZODB (http://www.zope.org/Products/ZODB3.3).
> >> So if there's any interest I'll be very happy if I can contribute to you=
> r
> >> projects.
> >>
> >> Best regards
> >>
> >> --
> >> Markus Schatten, dipl. inf.
> >> Faculty of Organization and Informatics
> >> Vara=C5=BEdin, Croatia
> >> e-mail: mar...@fo...
> >> http://www.foi.hr
> >>
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