Introduction

The OAA Debug Interface program is used to send ICL messages to an individual agent or to the agent community, generally for debugging purposes. Requests may be entered in ICL form or as English queries, if a natural language agent (such as DCG-NL or Gemini) is present in the agent community.

Interface

The interface is structured in three parts:

A set of "shortcut" buttons representing often-used queries
A log window to display information returned from the agent community
A tasking panel, containing fields for entering requests in English or in ICL.

Typing in a request in either the English or ICL input fields and then pressing the respective send button will send the request to the agent community. Any results will be displayed in the log window.

Note: ICL commands typed in the ICL field are in a form as specified by the Prolog agent library, not the Java one. For instance, oaa_Solve() should take 2 arguments, not 3:

Prolog: oaa_Solve(Goal, Params) [use this one in Debug agent]
Java: oaa_Solve(Goal, Params, Solutions)

Known Issues

Long message results will be truncated in the debug window to 4000 characters. This is a result of a bug in the display portion of Swing's JList/ScrollPane components. To see long results, use the "Display to Console" option instead.

To Do

Not yet implemented:

Backward compatibility for NLF natural language agent.
Configuration file to allow user-defined buttons.
Should declare an optional user name (on command line) so references to "my" and "me" work.
Add calls to GEN_NL (icl_to_nl) to generate natural language from solutions
Correctly handle compound natural language (e.g. "phone number of adam cheyer's boss")