Google Wave: Up and Running

Chapter 6. Diving into Extensions: Robots API

Robots are just one part of the platform, but they can be extremely valuable and useful as active or passive participants in a wave. As we saw in the previous chapter, it’s fairly easy to code a basic robot that responds to blips. In this chapter we’ll dive a bit deeper into the Robots API. First we’ll code a few robots to get our feet wet, and then we’ll use the second half of the chapter to review the Robots API in more detail.

Reference Links to Resources from Google

Here’s the link to the Google Wave Robots API overview:

http://code.google.com/apis/wave/extensions/robots/index.html

Here are some links for the Google Wave Python client library:

Basic tutorial

http://code.google.com/apis/wave/extensions/robots/python-tutorial.html

Reference

http://wave-robot-python-client.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/pydocs/index.html

Client library download

http://code.google.com/p/wave-robot-python-client/downloads/list

Here are some links for the Google Wave Java client library:

Basic tutorial

http://code.google.com/apis/wave/extensions/robots/java-tutorial.html

Reference

http://wave-robot-java-client.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/index.html

Client library download

http://code.google.com/p/wave-robot-java-client/downloads/list

Let’s Code a Few Robots

For the sake of brevity, I won’t include some of the basic steps covered in the previous chapter, including application registration in App Engine, creation of the app.yaml configuration file for App Engine, application deployment ...