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Janzert
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Send permanent game ID at end of game
« on: Sep 5th, 2009, 10:03pm » |
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This may or may not be possible depending on details of how the server works. It would be quite nice if the final update from the game server could include the permanent database game id for the game. Bots could then record this in their log file if desired and clients for humans could display it in the chat or other appropriate area. This would allow a game to be easily found and referenced after the game is complete.
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Re: Send permanent game ID at end of game
« Reply #1 on: Sep 22nd, 2009, 9:27pm » |
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The game server would not be able to provide the permanent game id. However, it would be possible to make a request to the game room with the temporary id and get back the permanent id.
I added a 'findgameid' action to the gameroom protocol.
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/protocol/
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Re: Send permanent game ID at end of game
« Reply #2 on: Sep 22nd, 2009, 11:02pm » |
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Thanks Omar, that should work great.
If it's not a problem it might be a little cleaner for bot clients if this could be added to the bot1gr.cgi as well.
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Re: Send permanent game ID at end of game
« Reply #3 on: Sep 23rd, 2009, 9:35pm » |
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Good idea. Added 'findgameid' to bot1gr.cgi also. Thanks.
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Re: Send permanent game ID at end of game
« Reply #4 on: Sep 28th, 2009, 10:17pm » |
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Omar, could you double check that this made it onto the server. It seems to only work through client1gr.cgi at the moment.
Thanks,
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Re: Send permanent game ID at end of game
« Reply #6 on: Oct 7th, 2009, 8:01pm » |
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Oops, I had forgotten that the url used during the game (the table url?) was different from the gameroom url. Switching to the correct url works.
Thanks again,
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Re: Send permanent game ID at end of game
« Reply #7 on: Nov 25th, 2009, 4:13pm » |
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It seems like this fails somewhere around a third of the time. Instead of the game id I get an error back from the server:
error=Gameroom: Cannot find the game with temp id of
(That's the complete message, there is no id given in the error message)
At first I thought I must be sending a bad temporary id but I checked what I sent to the server and I don't see any correlation between errors and successful responses.
The post body that generated the error above:
action=findgameid&tid=153353
and one that worked fine:
action=findgameid&tid=153377
So it seems like the script is failing to parse the id sometimes but I'm not sure what it correlates with.
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Re: Send permanent game ID at end of game
« Reply #8 on: Dec 9th, 2009, 7:00pm » |
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Strange. Are you making this request right after creating the game. It might be a timing issue with the game not being completely created before the request. Maybe adding a couple seconds of delay might fix it. Or maybe retry the request with increasing second intervals.
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Re: Send permanent game ID at end of game
« Reply #9 on: Dec 9th, 2009, 8:29pm » |
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The request is sent very quickly after receiving the result of the game from the server. I'll change it to retry a few times with an increasing back off and see how it does.
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Re: Send permanent game ID at end of game
« Reply #10 on: Dec 11th, 2009, 4:00pm » |
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That would be a useful feature. Janzert - I think I recently played against one of your bots and it timed out once I had all traps covered
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