org.alicebot.server.core.processor
Class RandomProcessor

java.lang.Object
  org.alicebot.server.core.processor.Processor
      org.alicebot.server.core.processor.AIMLProcessor
          org.alicebot.server.core.processor.RandomProcessor

public class RandomProcessor
extends AIMLProcessor

Handles a random element.

This improved version (since 4.1.5) employs the notion that to achieve the kind of randomness expected by users and AIML authors, the following requirements exist:

• Each random element should have its own "space". This means that, for example, if random element A contains five li children, and random element B contains seven li children, the probability that any given li of A will be chosen when A is activated should consistently be 1:5, and the probability that any given li of B will be chosen when B is chosen should consistently be 1:7. Essentially, each random must have its own unique series of random numbers.
• A "unique space" requirement exists as well on a per-user basis: each user should have an equivalent experience of randomness for each random element, independent of any other users.
• The individual bot also has a uniqueness requirement, multiplying the previous two. In effect, if there are m bots, n users, and p random elements, there are (potentially) m * n * n independent random number series.

Version:

4.1.5

Author:

Noel Bush, Jon Baer, Thomas Ringate, Pedro Colla, Jay Myers

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

label

Fields inherited from class org.alicebot.server.core.processor.Processor

EMPTY_STRING, ENABLED, ID, NAME, NAME_EQUALS, VALUE, VALUE_EQUALS

Constructor Summary

RandomProcessor()

Method Summary

java.lang.String

process(int level, XMLNode tag, TemplateParser parser)

Methods inherited from class org.alicebot.server.core.processor.AIMLProcessor

process

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

label

public static final java.lang.String label

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

RandomProcessor

public RandomProcessor()

Method Detail

process

public java.lang.String process(int level,
                                XMLNode tag,
                                TemplateParser parser)
                         throws AIMLProcessorException

Specified by:

process in class AIMLProcessor

Throws:

AIMLProcessorException