mindmeld.app_manager module

This module contains the application manager

class mindmeld.app_manager.ApplicationManager(app_path, nlp=None, question_answerer=None, es_host=None, request_class=None, responder_class=None, text_preparation_pipeline=None, async_mode=False)[source]

Bases: object

The Application Manager is the core orchestrator of the MindMeld platform. It receives a client request, and processes that request by passing it through all the necessary components of MindMeld. Once processing is complete, the application manager returns the final response back to the client.

async_mode

bool -- Whether the application is asynchronous or synchronous.

nlp

NaturalLanguageProcessor -- The natural language processor.

question_answerer

QuestionAnswerer -- The question answerer.

request_class

Request -- Any class that inherits from Request

responder_class

DialogueResponder -- Any class that inherits from the DialogueResponder

dialogue_manager

DialogueManager -- The application's dialogue manager.

add_dialogue_rule(name, handler, **kwargs)[source]

Adds a dialogue rule for the dialogue manager.

Parameters:
  • name (str) -- The name of the dialogue state
  • handler (function) -- The dialogue state handler function
  • kwargs (dict) -- A list of options which specify the dialogue rule
add_middleware(middleware)[source]

Adds middleware for the dialogue manager.

Parameters:middleware (callable) -- A dialogue manager middleware function
load()[source]

Loads all resources required to run a MindMeld application.

parse(text, params=None, context=None, frame=None, form=None, history=None, verbose=False)[source]
Parameters:
  • text (str) -- The text of the message sent by the user
  • params (Params/dict, optional) -- Contains parameters which modify how text is parsed
  • params.allowed_intents (list, optional) -- A list of allowed intents for model consideration
  • params.target_dialogue_state (str, optional) -- The target dialogue state
  • params.time_zone (str, optional) -- The name of an IANA time zone, such as 'America/Los_Angeles', or 'Asia/Kolkata' See the [tz database](https://www.iana.org/time-zones) for more information.
  • params.timestamp (long, optional) -- A unix time stamp for the request (in seconds).
  • frame (dict, optional) -- A dictionary specifying the frame of the conversation
  • context (dict, optional) -- A dictionary of app-specific data
  • history (list, optional) -- A list of previous and current responder objects through interactions with MindMeld
  • verbose (bool, optional) -- Flag to return confidence scores for domains and intents
Returns:

Convert to dict (Responder): A Responder object
Return type:

TODO
MAX_HISTORY_LEN = 100

The max number of turns in history.

ready

Whether the nlp component is ready.

mindmeld.app_manager.freeze_params(params)[source]

If params is a dictionary or Params we convert it into FrozenParams. Otherwise we raise a TypeError.

Parameters:params (dict, Params) -- The input params to convert
Returns:The converted params object
Return type:FrozenParams