Finite State Machine implementation for a bot ?
xavier
Has one of you already implemented a FSM to power the bot ?
I'd like to develop a vocabulary of command that is likely to end up
context specific (ie. "show" won't mean the same thing if you are in a
specific context because you ran a specific command(s) before than as
the first command).
Not sure the FSM is the best approach, but I fear the code is going to
go out of control quickly after a handful of commands ;)
On a somehow related topic, the mysql connection seems to drop after a
few hours of activity. Not sure if it's the session that goes missing,
the mysql connection, a ghost in the machine... Any suggestion more
than welcome.
Finally, what's the ETA for the chat ? looks nice !
X+
imoracle
Interesting thing that you are looking for. I am not sure if it comes
under FSM, but yeah something similar is under development (no
guarantee on when will it be released).
Idea is to have a few command line options, e.g.
php jaxl.php command1 arg1 arg2 .....
and the bot will be able to do a lot more things.
The commands can also be sent through IM chat messages.
If you or other developers are interesting in such a thing, let me
know if you guys can do some brainstorming on it over chat.
MySQL connection, well yes if bot is idle the connection will soon die
out.
Need a better MySQL manager which shd be simple to write.
Instead of one connection hanging for entire lifetime of the bot you
can use different connections depending upon ur need.
ga...@gtalkbots.com uses some tricks to identify when to use a
persistent connection available and when to reopen a new connection to
the database.
Browser chat client is a long pending task. I can't guarantee a date
for the same but 2010 should bring some good news on this :D
Merry Christmas and Happy new year.
Regards,
Abhinav