Creating a Robot as a Java ES extension

[jbeuckm]

Does anyone have information about creating a plugin that would greet users who enter the room and send / respond to messages (all simple text from predetermined lists).

I'm asking about the Java Extension functions and techniques to do this - not the AI aspect.

Thanks
Joe

[tcarr]

If you extend BasePlugin, customizing these methods might do what you want:

1. userEnter : Do whatever you want to do when somebody is about to join the room. Return ChainAction.OkAndContinue at the end. If you want the new person to hear the text, then set a timer or have the client send a request after it gets the response about joining the room. See Multiple Delayed Executions at Various Times (http://www.es-wiki.com/index.php?title=ScheduledCallback#Multiple_Delayed _Executions_at_Various_Times)

2. userExit : Say goodbye.

3. userSendPublicMessage : respond to the message if you want to.

[jbeuckm]

Thankyou - this is very helpful. About option 3: would I be somehow creating an automated user and logging them in and having them send a message in response? How were you thinking I would respond to the message?

[tcarr]

Well, I was thinking of using getApi().sendPluginMessageToRoom, and having the clients interpret this as a public message.

[jbeuckm]

Could someone point me to a working example of using getApi().sendPluginMessageToRoom ?

Thankyou
-Joe

[tcarr]

Look at installation folder/examples/PluginPublicMessage. The plugin uses
PluginPublicMessageResponse response = getApi().sendPluginMessageToRoom(getApi().getZoneI d(), getApi().getRoomId(), requestParameters);

[jbeuckm]

Thanks for all your help, Teresa - the robot is working great with test phrases!

I need to load the canned phrases from an xml file and I wrote a working parser but I'm wondering where text files should sit in the plugin structure. I am currently getting a file not found error with the xml file in the root of the extension's zip archive.

[tcarr]

(guessing) Try putting it in the config folder of the extension.