[Pando-devel] Message construction

[Volodymyr B. <vb...@mi...>]

Hi,

I would like to clarify how the messages from the console 
will be dispatched to the FIPA agents

Assume we have this situation:
DC : CM > connect net.sf.pando.prototypes.fipa_agent_one
CN : net.sf.pando.prototypes.fipa_agent_one : CM >
  
In this situation the connection to the agent is active, 
and the connection is in the command mode. The info mode 
will display the statistics about the FIPA agent.

Now the user of the console can type the message command 
to display the default message.

CN : net.sf.pando.prototypes.fipa_agent_one : CM > message
(inform
:sender (agent-identifier :name fipa-console)
:receiver (set (agent-identifier :name 
net.sf.pando.prototypes.fipa_agent_one))
:content “content is empty”
:language Prolog)

To add the content of the message:

CN : net.sf.pando.prototypes.fipa_agent_one : CM > content 
"weather (today, raining)"

Displaying the message after the content was added:

CN : net.sf.pando.prototypes.fipa_agent_one : CM > message
(inform
:sender (agent-identifier :name fipa-console)
:receiver (set (agent-identifier :name 
net.sf.pando.prototypes.fipa_agent_one))
:content
"weather (today, raining)"
:language Prolog)

Adding an ontology name to the message:

CN : net.sf.pando.prototypes.fipa_agent_one : CM > 
ontology world-politics


Displaying the message after ontology name was added

CN : net.sf.pando.prototypes.fipa_agent_one : CM > message
(inform
:sender (agent-identifier :name fipa-console)
:receiver (set (agent-identifier :name 
net.sf.pando.prototypes.fipa_agent_one))
:content
"weather (today, raining)"
       :ontology world-politics
:language Prolog)

CN : net.sf.pando.prototypes.fipa_agent_one : CM > send

The message will be verified to make sure all the critical 
compotes are specified. If everything is ok, the message 
will be send.

The user can change or add all the other optional 
properties of the message by following the approaches 
above. In addition, the communicative act can be changed 
the same way. For example going from inform act to request 
act.

Cameron please let me know what you think about this 
approach of contacting a message.

Cheers
Volodymyr Babiy