Google Devfest 2009 Argentina - Building Google Wave Robots

Google Wave for Developers: Making Robots Chris Schalk @cschalk Patrick Chanezon @chanezon Con: Martin Sarsale November 17, 2009

Why build on Google Wave? • Real-time == Real-awesome o Self-explanatory • Workflow o Focused on bridging communication and workflow. • Leverage o New and exciting technology and foundation. • Opportunity! o New business opportunities.

Extensions in Wave The most common ways to extend Wave are to use: • Gadgets o Embed them in a conversation o Built with HTML+Javascript o Interactive with the Wave and it’s participants o Ex: maps, slideshows, search results • Robots o Are actual participants of a Wave which can ‘do things’  Exactly the same as a Wave participant o Ex: content update, integration with other systems

Wave Entities: Data Model “Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious.” Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month • Wave • Wavelets • Blips • Documents

Robot Architecture Overview

Wave Robot Concepts • Wave Robots... o Live in the cloud. o Are external (robotic) participants. o Have full access to wave. o Respond to events on a wave. o Are currently available for Java and Python APIs on Google App Engine.

Wave Robots Essentials • APIs in Python and Java • Runs in Google App Engine • Events: o "Robot added to Wave" - WAVELET_SELF_ADDED o ”New blip" - BLIP_SUBMITTED o "Blip edited" - BLIP_VERSION_CHANGED o "New participant" - WAVELET_PARTICIPANTS_CHANGED • Responds to: o Augmented or edited Wave content o Invites from other participants o Interaction with other systems outside of Wave

Robot Examples Smiley """Smiley: Yet another smiley robot.""" from waveapi import events from waveapi import robot def OnBlipSubmitted(properties, context): blip = context.GetBlipById(properties['blipId']) contents = blip.GetDocument().GetText() contents = contents.replace(':(', unichr(0x2639)) # happy contents = contents.replace(':)', unichr(0x263A)) # sad blip.GetDocument().SetText(contents) if __name__ == '__main__': smiley = robot.Robot('Smiley') smiley.RegisterHandler( events.BLIP_SUBMITTED, OnBlipSubmitted) smiley.Run() (A complete and useful robot in a single slide... with room to spare!)

Other Robot Examples • Swedish Chef • Monty + Syntaxy (a match made in robot heaven) • Wikify (wikifier@appspot.com) • CleanTXT (cleantxt@appspot.com) • Polly the Pollster (polly-wave@appspot.com) • Yelpful (yelpful@appspot.com) • TwitUsernames (twitusernames@appspot.com) • XMPP Lite (wave-xmpp@appspot.com) • Madoqua Wave Bot (blog-bot@appspot.com) • Emoticony (emoticonbot@appspot.com) • Inbeddable (inbeddable@appspot.com) • Easy Public (easypublic@appspot.com)

Robot Lists • http://wave-samples-gallery.appspot.com/ • http://completewaveguide.com/guide/Wave_Bots • http://www.waverobots.com/ • http://www.cloudave.com/link/the-top-11-google-waverobots-for-the-enterprise

Wave videos in a theater near you • What is Google Wave email reinvented http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDu2A3WzQpo • Google Wave Pulp Fiction creative use of robots (strong language:-) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcxF9oz9Cu0 • Introducing SAP Gravity, a Business Process Modeling Tool for Google Wave Wave for business http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaNhXPSCQWo

Demo: Building Wave Robots

Robot Roadmap • New Robots wire protocol (v0.2) o Publish for community feedback o Implement Java and Python API parity • Internal speed improvements for AppEngine robots. • Robot Gateway / OpenSocial REST Access • Robot access to OAuth controlled resources • Better multiple wave access • Sunset robot cron in favor of direct access to Wave servers. • Gateway support: Improve the current tweety type of access to support outside addresses of the form address +robot@appspot.com

Beyond Robots: Wave federation • Open Source protocol http://www.waveprotocol.org • Open Source Google Wave Federation Prototype Server http://code.google.com/p/wave-protocol/

Beyond Robots: Wave federation

Wave Robot Development Experience in Argentina Local Expert building Wave Robots! Martin Sarsale

Summary – How to get started • Familiarize yourself with the developer sandbox. http://wave.google.com/a/wavesandbox.com/ • Explore the docs. http://code.google.com/apis/wave • Stay up-to-date on our blog updates. http://googlewavedev.blogspot.com/

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