[CLOSED] Office Hours: 2010-01-13

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11:25 am
Tom Maaswinkel:

Is there a way to let a robot post in a wave where he isn't invited, but
where [email protected] has been added?
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11:27 am
You:

That's a good question. I actually haven't tried that out but I can't say
for sure. But I am assuming you are referring to the use of active robot api
that let a robot touches a wave actively. I am thinking that a robot can
only touch the wave if he is explicitly added as a participant even if it is
a public wave. Please post this in the group, I will investigate this and
give you a more confirmed answer on this.
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11:27 am
Tom Maaswinkel:

How can a robot see if a blip is public or a private reply with just the
robot in it"?
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11:28 am
You:

you can search for the wavelet that contains the blip to see if there is the
[email protected] participant on it.
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11:31 am
Tom Maaswinkel:

and if I've found that, how can I post in the wavelet that is public?
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11:33 am
You:

That's what I was saying earlier that I am not sure if the robot can reply
to a wavelet even if it is public. I believe robot must be a participant on
wavelet in order for it to touch the wavelet (even if it is public). But I
need to confirm that, so please post this on the group and I will reply to
that later this afternoon.
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11:41 am
Tom Maaswinkel:

Well, the point is that I can't find a function that allows me to get to
that other wavelet (since the only wavelet I got access to is given trough
the RobotMessageBundle)
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11:43 am
You:

Yes that is correct, with the current available client libraries we only
provide interaction between robots and wavelet passively. Meaning exactly
what you have mentioned that robots only know about wavelet when wavelet
triggers an event. But there is a new feature that we will be pushing out
soon that let you do "active" request to a wavelet, given that you know the
wavelet id.
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11:43 am
Tom Maaswinkel:

The reason that I'm asking is that we want to develop a way to post
'anonymously' in a wave. We are developing the MediawikiWave bot, and one of
the main features of mediawiki is anonymous editing.


Do you maybe know another way to currently do this?
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11:46 am
You:

I don't have solution off my head because obviously we don't want robot to
be able to do that to any wavelet, major spam/security issue can happen. I
believe the current model only allows a participating robot touch a wavelet.


There is one thing that can do what you mention but that is not part of the
API at the moment. There is something calls Agents but right now they are
only provided internally (Spelly is an example of agents). Agents can touch
any wavelet, sort of a super robots.
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11:47 am
Tom Maaswinkel:

Good to know. Do you know if this will ever be made publicly available?
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11:48 am
You:

I don't think we have any plan in the near future. I can follow up on that,
please post on the gropu so I will make sure I will check up on that.
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11:48 am
Tom Maaswinkel:

I can ask Lars directly if that will make your life easier ;-)
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11:49 am
You:

sure i am sure Lars can provide more insightful answer than I.
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11:49 am
Tom Maaswinkel:

Cool, thanks for your help :-)
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11:49 am
You:

you welcome :)
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11:34 am
Venkat Polisetti:

I am wondering if the usage of Google Groups in Wave working? Here is the
blog post on wave blog:
http://googlewave.blogspot.com/2009/12/waving-with-groups.html




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11:39 am
You:

Yes I think so, tho that is not an API thing but I believe so if you follow
the instruction on the blog post.
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11:43 am
Venkat Polisetti:

Thanks, I will give it a try.
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11:50 am
Venkat Polisetti:

Austine, I have seen this participant added to this wave.
[email protected]


Is this a group of contacts? I do not thing this a group as the address is
on wavesandbox.com rather than googlegroups.com


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11:51 am
You:

it is a google group under the domain for wavesandbox.com. It's the Google
Apps version of it.
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11:52 am
Venkat Polisetti:

So effectively it proves that the google groups thing works!. So any body in
that group can post to this wave, right?
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11:53 am
You:

I cannot say for sure, I am not sure if there anything extra that needs to
be done for them to sync up. My intuition is that you probably won't have to
do anything else. But I haven't tested this myself.
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11:49 am
Tom Maaswinkel:

What kind of bot would you love to be developed?
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11:54 am
Venkat Polisetti:

Tom, are you asking me this?
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11:55 am
Tom Maaswinkel:

Both you and Austin... We got a person willing to fund development as long
as we have good idea's for bots... But we ran out of idea's :p
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11:57 am
You:

awesome. I think integrating other services such as calendar or docs
(syncing potentially) would be tremendously helpful.
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11:59 am
Tom Maaswinkel:

Good idea. I'm gonna look into that :-)
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11:58 am
Venkat Polisetti:

Well, I already got a bot that integrates with Salesforce.com CRM for our
company. But I am having issues allowing our folks to connect to it when the
wave is embeded in Salesforce UI. I am hoping this groups thing will work
for us.
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