[robocup-msrs] Communication between soccer players

[George Chrysanthakopoulos]

Hi, one way to recover any service available on a node, is to issue a Get to  the directory service on that node. You do so from code so no need to deal with xml or html.

Please review service tutorial 7, plus examples in our MSRS wiki, for how to do simple queries to the directory service.

Method 2) below is actually not a bad idea, since you will have your own manifest that starts your team of players on your machine. So you control that manifest, and can take it with you to the challenge. Note that the referee manifest is different and will be provided by us and the referee will run on a remote machine.  So once you create your manifest once, you can keep using it, on the player machine (each team will run its services on a separate machine, that we provide for each game).

We will provide you more details on the competition, rules, etc shortly. But it will not be much different than the simple rules and README instructions we already provided for may CTP
From: robocup-msrs-bounces at cc.gatech.edu [mailto:robocup-msrs-bounces at cc.gatech.edu] On Behalf Of Giovanni Lenzi
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 11:13 PM
To: robocup-msrs at cc.gatech.edu
Subject: [robocup-msrs] Communication between soccer players

Hi all,
I have to implement some sort of communication between robudogs, but I don't find the right way to proceed ...

How can a redteam player know that there are many others redteam players beyond himself? How can he know their service names??

1) I tried to query the referee for some sort of global knowledge of players on each team (i'm actually interested in retrieving the service name of each service(player) in my team), but it seems that this kind of function is not offered by the referee. By simply doing an http get to localhost:50000/simulatedsoccerreferee<http://forums.microsoft.com/simulatedsoccerreferee> with a browser, i didn't obtain nothing useful except for the number of players in each team

2) I tried to add partners for every players directly in the manifest.xml file ... For each player, i've specified his teammates as partners, just like the referee. But, in this way, I've to modify manually the xml manifest file before the final challenge, to respect the number of players and the teamcolor chosen for the challenge, so I think this couldn't be the right way to proceed

3) Now I'm trying to get service names of teammates by retrieving all the services localized under /redteam/ folder in the service directory list, but I need an xml representation of this list and not the html's one displayed accessing via a browser to localhost:50000/directory

Do you have some idea to retrieve these teammates service names??
I would very appreciate some help!

Thanks in advance,
Giovanni.


--
Giovanni Lenzi
Consulenza, programmazione, siti web.
M: +39 3492236442
E: giovanni.lenzi at gmail.com<mailto:giovanni.lenzi at gmail.com>
W: www.giovannilenzi.it<http://www.giovannilenzi.it>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.cc.gatech.edu/pipermail/robocup-msrs/attachments/20070604/14ee65eb/attachment.html