if for some reason (spoilers: i have a reason) you would want to have
dispatched stuff go to a file, that can now be done. prepend the
(fully-qualified) filename with FILE: in the database and off you go
we're switching to an idiom where the bot is only on one connection, so
we don't need to care about connection tracking. new_sendmsg accordingly
doesn't take a connection argument. now i can remove the old sendmsg
caught in the wake, a bunch of connections being passed here and there
can be removed, changing some module method signatures and such. there
might be more to remove still
a bunch of logic is moved around, some queries are improved, max_size
does what it's actually supposed to do. all in all this is a much
clearer chainer, even if the actual results are more or less the same.
it's probably a bit faster in most cases but slower in situations when
all the seed words have been consumed and it needs to do
__start1,__start2 chains (since there's so many of them, it's rather
slow). otherwise, it tries to use seed words in sentences, combining
multiple sentences when possible. there's a lot more in the periphery,
but that's the general idea
whether or not we went backwards and forwards, or just forwards, this
cycle of the loop, end the iteration by calling the end of the sentence
our hit word. if it was our seed word, this will trigger a new seed
selection
get one random v for a k1,k2 via SQL. prefer a word to show up in the
results, though there's no guarantee it will. this simplifies the
general looking forward case, and could possibly even work ok on the new
sentence stuff, though i haven't tried to update that portion of the
code yet
only add the reverse-search result to list of words if it isn't __start2
(and if it is __start2, just carry on, giving the code one last chance
to find something else)
rather than getting all k2s for a value from the database, then walking
the list and picking one at random, pick one for a value at random via
a query
this simplifies the code, and is (usually) faster than the old way,
which has been removed. it would be even faster if it weren't for that
context_id stuff, but so it goes
the code, in a kind of trial state, would very quickly stop trying to
work backwards. (part of this was for performance reasons, i believe.)
since that seems to have proven stable, let's mess with it --- the
backwards chainer can now go backwards a random distance, rather than
just what almost always turned out to be 2
this is to let any sort of autosend commands apply before joining
channels. for example, i have my bot set to turn on its hostserv cloak,
which was sometimes happening after channel joins, making its hostname
appear different in various channels. this solves that
as a total aside, this module is becoming really poorly named, i should
probably do something about that
Brian S. Stephan