IM text analysis, RESTful web services, state

[livingegg]

Does anyone know if it is possible to any of the following with Radegast?:

-The bot can parse the contents of an IM and reply conditionally based on content. (I know the AIML engine can do this but what if I want to do it myself in C# for example)
-The bot can initiate an asynchronous procedure before replying to IM. For example, it may decide to call a RESTful web service and return the response to the user via IM.
-The bot can maintain "state" throughout an IM "session" with another avatar.

Thanks,

[Latif Khalifa]

The way to do that would be to write a plugin in c#. Radegast would load any .cs or .dll with the proper interface. You could just copy DemoPlugin.cs and change a its file name to the folder where Radegast.exe lives.

DemoPlugin is shipped with the source code or you can get it from:

radegast.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/plugins/Radegast.Plugin.Demo/DemoPlugin.cs

It has sample code how to respond to an IM, you can just fill in your own code-