/// <summary> /// Given a request containing user input, produces a result from the bot /// </summary> /// <param name="request">the request from the user</param> /// <returns>the result to be output to the user</returns> public Result Chat(Request request) { Result result = new Result(request.user, this, request); if (this.isAcceptingUserInput) { // Normalize the input AIMLLoader loader = new AIMLLoader(this); AIMLbot.Normalize.SplitIntoSentences splitter = new AIMLbot.Normalize.SplitIntoSentences(this); string[] rawSentences = splitter.Transform(request.rawInput); foreach (string sentence in rawSentences) { result.InputSentences.Add(sentence); string path = loader.generatePath(sentence, request.user.getLastBotOutput(), request.user.Topic, true); result.NormalizedPaths.Add(path); } // grab the templates for the various sentences from the graphmaster foreach (string path in result.NormalizedPaths) { Utils.SubQuery query = new SubQuery(path); query.Template = this.Graphmaster.evaluate(path, query, request, MatchState.UserInput, new StringBuilder()); result.SubQueries.Add(query); } // process the templates into appropriate output foreach (SubQuery query in result.SubQueries) { if (query.Template.Length > 0) { try { XmlNode templateNode = AIMLTagHandler.getNode(query.Template); string outputSentence = this.processNode(templateNode, query, request, result, request.user); if (outputSentence.Length > 0) { result.OutputSentences.Add(outputSentence); } } catch (Exception e) { if (this.WillCallHome) { this.phoneHome(e.Message, request); } this.writeToLog("WARNING! A problem was encountered when trying to process the input: " + request.rawInput + " with the template: \"" + query.Template + "\""); } } } } else { result.OutputSentences.Add(this.NotAcceptingUserInputMessage); } // populate the Result object result.Duration = DateTime.Now - request.StartedOn; request.user.addResult(result); return result; }