I figure some people might be interested in hooking up to Watson from FoxPro, so I'll share what I learn as I go along, eventually, hopefully, some code examples. Till now all I had was enthusiasm and some knowledge from reading articles on the subject. But this week I received a note from IBM inviting me to try Watson for a month. I jumped on the opportunity, but then found myself mired in unfamiliar territory (and I thought I knew IBM!).
The URL they sent me to, assuming it's still open (?) https://ace.ng.bluemix.net/ To see if I could get any help I posted a question: "Can I access Watson from Visual FoxPro using JSON?" on the Watson developer forum https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/163315/can-i-access-watson-from- visual-foxpro-using-json/?smartspace=watson And received (just) one response so far that says "Watson does have a REST-based service that uses JSON as its messaging format. It is possible to integration a variety of tools and languages with Watson, provided those tools and languages support the ability to invoke a REST service. Now I think I get the basic/general idea, which is that I create an object in VFP, use JSON to translate it into some sort of file, then pass that file to the RESTive server. I presume I will then get an object back that I have to use JSON again to translate the response into a VFP object. Can any confirm or embellish this understanding. Fortunately the basic proposition is very simple: to ask questions and get answers. Hard to get simpler than that. The hard part is knowing what questions to ask. And the matter of making company information available to Watson. There are definitely questions down this road. Can anyone shed any light? Bill _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
