MagPie Java Program

// Sammy Samkough
// MagPie
// Spec: Create a program to carry on conversations with a human user.

/**
 * A program to carry on conversations with a human user.
 * This is the initial version that:
 * <ul><li>
 *       Uses indexOf to find strings
 * </li><li>
 * 		    Handles responding to simple words and phrases
 * </li></ul>
 * This version uses a nested if to handle default responses.
 * @author Laurie White
 * @version April 2012
 */
public class MagPie
{
	/**
	 * Get a default greeting
	 * @return a greeting
	 */
	public String getGreeting()
	{
		return "Hello, let's talk.";
	}

	/**
	 * Gives a response to a user statement
	 *
	 * @param statement
	 *            the user statement
	 * @return a response based on the rules given
	 */
	public String getResponse(String statement)
	{
		String response = "";
		if (findKeyword(statement, "no", 0) >= 0)
		{
			response = "Why so negative?";
		}
		else if (findKeyword(statement, "mother", 0) >= 0
				|| findKeyword(statement, "father", 0) >= 0
				|| findKeyword(statement, "sister", 0) >= 0
				|| findKeyword(statement, "brother", 0) >= 0)
		{
			response = "Tell me more about your family.";
		}
		else if (findKeyword(statement, "cat", 0) >= 0
				|| findKeyword(statement, "dog", 0) >= 0)
		{
			if (findKeyword(statement, "cancat", 0) >= 0)
			{
				response = "Cancat is cool.";
			}
			else if (findKeyword(statement, "hotdog", 0) >= 0)
			{
				response = "I love hotdogs!";
			}
			response = "Tell me more about your pets.";
		}
		else if (findKeyword(statement, "Ascione", 0) >= 0)
		{
			response = "He's a great programmer!";
		}
		else if (findKeyword(statement, "I like", 0) >= 0)
		{
			response = "What do you like about it?";
		}
		else if (findKeyword(statement, "What's your name?", 0) >= 0
				|| findKeyword(statement, "what's your name?", 0) >= 0
				|| findKeyword(statement, "Whats your name?", 0) >= 0
				|| findKeyword(statement, "whats your name?", 0) >= 0
				|| findKeyword(statement, "What's your name", 0) >= 0
				|| findKeyword(statement, "what's your name", 0) >= 0
				|| findKeyword(statement, "Whats your name", 0) >= 0
				|| findKeyword(statement, "whats your name", 0) >= 0)
		{
			response = "MagPie";
		}
		else if (statement.length() == 0)
		{
			response = "What was that?";
		}
		else
		{
			response = getRandomResponse();
		}

		return response;
	}

	/**
	 * Pick a default response to use if nothing else fits.
	 * @return a non-committal string
	 */
	private String getRandomResponse()
	{
		final int NUMBER_OF_RESPONSES = 5;
		double r = Math.random();
		int whichResponse = (int)(r * NUMBER_OF_RESPONSES);
		String response = "";

		if (whichResponse == 0)
		{
			response = "Interesting, tell me more.";
		}
		else if (whichResponse == 1)
		{
			response = "Hmmm.";
		}
		else if (whichResponse == 2)
		{
			response = "Do you really think so?";
		}
		else if (whichResponse == 3)
		{
			response = "You don't say.";
		}
		else if (whichResponse == 4)
		{
			response = "I don't care.";
		}

		return response;
	}

	/**
	 * Search for one word in phrase. The search is not case
	 * sensitive. This method will check that the given goal
	 * is not a substring of a longer string (so, for
	 * example, "I know" does not contain "no").
	 *
	 * @param statement
	 *            the string to search
	 * @param goal
	 *            the string to search for
	 * @param startPos
	 *            the character of the string to begin the
	 *            search at
	 * @return the index of the first occurrence of goal in
	 *         statement or -1 if it's not found
	 */
	private int findKeyword(String statement, String goal, int startPos)
	{
		String phrase = statement.trim();
		// The only change to incorporate the startPos is in
		// the line below
		int psn = phrase.toLowerCase().indexOf(goal.toLowerCase(), startPos);

		// Refinement--make sure the goal isn't part of a
		// word
		while (psn >= 0)
		{
			// Find the string of length 1 before and after
			// the word
			String before = " ", after = " ";
			if (psn > 0)
			{
				before = phrase.substring(psn - 1, psn).toLowerCase();
			}
			if (psn + goal.length() < phrase.length())
			{
				after = phrase.substring(psn + goal.length(), psn + goal.length() + 1).toLowerCase();
			}

			// If before and after aren't letters, we've
			// found the word
			if (((before.compareTo("a") < 0) || (before.compareTo("z") > 0)) // before is not a letter
					&& ((after.compareTo("a") < 0) || (after.compareTo("z") > 0)))
			{
				return psn;
			}

			// The last position didn't work, so let's find
			// the next, if there is one.
			psn = phrase.indexOf(goal.toLowerCase(), psn + 1);

		}

		return -1;
	}
}

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// Sammy Samkough
// MagPie
// Spec: Create a program to carry on conversations with a human user.

import java.util.Scanner;

/**
 * A simple class to run the Magpie class.
 * @author Laurie White
 * @version April 2012
 */
public class MagPieClient
{
	/**
	 * Create a Magpie, give it user input, and print its replies.
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		MagPie maggie = new MagPie();

		System.out.println (maggie.getGreeting());
		Scanner in = new Scanner (System.in);
		String statement = in.nextLine();

		while (!statement.equalsIgnoreCase("Bye"))
		{
			System.out.println(maggie.getResponse(statement));
			statement = in.nextLine();
		}
	}

}