ChatterBot

Just some Python Packaging updates in this one folks.

Bug fixes

• Correct recognition of AM and PM in datetimes #1289

Small features

• Make it simpler to override system logic adapters #1296

Bug fixes

• Include character lengths for SQL Alchemy models #1200
• Fix storage methods for getting the latest response #1192

Testing

• Remove untested __statement_filter method in SQL Storage Adapter #1194
• Convert benchmark tests into unit tests #1185

Features

• Allow a list of options to be passed to the low confidence adapter #1178
• Use preprocessors during training #1181

Testing

• Use native nose exclude instead of plugin #1180
• Don't display training progress bars while tests are running #1183

Bug fixes

• Fix logic adapter kwargs #1174

Testing

• Update python and requirement test versions #1164

Deprecation

• Remove features marked as deprecated #1175

Features

• The time logic adapter can now take positive and negative parameters for custom data #1121

Not features

• Replace corpus folder with a file #1153
• Replace conversation folder with a single file #1154

Improvements

• Remove unused jsondatabase requirement from requirements.txt #1156
• Update SQL Alchemy minimum version to 1.2 #1155

Documentation

• Doc config updates #1118

Testing

• Remove makefile and add tox command documentation #1119

Bug fixes

• Fix sqlite 8-bit bytestrings with unicode coercion https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/1099

Documentation

• Add newsletter signup for to documentation page #1098
• Documentation updates #1096

Breaking changes

• Replace ChatterBot's "sessions" with "Conversations" https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/828
• Use lowercase table names for SQL Alchemy tables 1c81c5160d0c9fd744eca447383b0f0df86fb912
• The JSON file storage adapter has been removed https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/1004

Enhancements

• Add tags attribute to models https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/906
• Move SQL Alchemy models out of storage adapter https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/910
• Add sqlite pragma settings to sql_storage.py #916
• Increase max_length of Django Statement model text field to 400 characters https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/937
• Increase max_length of Django Statement model text field to 400 characters https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/937
• Allow any database model to be used by specifying it a parameter for the model https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/1001
• Move relational fields out of abstract base models https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/1010
• Use improved mathparse library for math evaluation logic adapter https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/1018
• Add tagging when training with SQL storage https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/1021

Bug fixes

• Use JSON "dump" instead of "dumps" https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/915
• Change distinct to aggregate in mongodb.py #916
• Don't append .db to sql database name https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/933
• Allow Django model extra_data field to be blank https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/941

Documentation

• Briefly document using Django and MongoDB together https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/938
• Add some information about how ChatterBot learns to the FAQ https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/938
• Document default kwarg values for ChatBot class https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/947

Bug fixes

• convert_unicode on the String type (thanks to @vkosuri and @WildDylan) https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/890

Enhancements

• Allow specification of ssl verification for hipchat adapters (via @Achimh3011) https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/875
• Display training progress indicator when training with corpus https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/899

Bug fixes

• Set query support to false in SQL storage adapter https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/880

Testing

• Configure tox https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/872

Documentation

• Document how to distribute a python module for ChatterBot https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/863

Bug fixes

• Fix database name being ignored https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/866
• Change SQL storage default to sqlite file instead of in-memory database https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/871

Deprecation

Deprecation warnings will now be triggered for the following classes and methods.
These items are schedule to be removed in ChatterBot version 0.8.

• chatterbot.storage.JsonFileStorageAdapter
• chatterbot.ChatBot.from_config

Enhancements

• Remove direct dependency on jsondb for training file exports https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/869

Bug fixes

• Add dateutil to the requirements https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/860
• Add long description to setup.py https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/861

Improvements

• Remove redundant text_search field is SQL adapter https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/856

Improvements

• Add a base class for SQL Alchemy models https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/852
• Add created_at field to response model https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/854
• Remove development dependency on pandoc and setuptools-markdown https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/855

Bug fixes

• Correct integrity error by checking for existing responses https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/850

Improvements

• Use the correct convention for primary keys in SQL storage adapter https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/851

Performance

• Improve memory efficiency of Ubuntu Corpus trainer https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/821

Testing

• Use the same database for all tests when testing MongoDB https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/835

(Soft) breaking changes:

• Switch to SQL adapter as the default storage adapter for ChatterBot https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/796
  • If you were previously using the default adapter (JsonFileStorageAdapter) and wish to continue using it you must specify storage_adapter="chatterbot.storage.JsonFileStorageAdapter" when initializeing your ChatBot.
• Documentation and Example updated to reference SQLStorageAdapter https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/808

Updates and improvements:

• Update initialization to download stopwords only if needed https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/803
• Add command line utility to list NLTK data directories https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/805
• Add search to response Django admin https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/810
• Code clan up in training module https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/809
• Update to next version of ChatterBot corpus https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/819
  • Document the format of the ChatterBot corpus https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/818

Bug fixes

• Correct order responses are saved in https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/813
• Correct file extraction check for Ubuntu dialog corpus https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/816

• Rename the beta storage adapter SQLAlchemyDatabaseAdapter to SQLStorageAdapter https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/786
• Create tables for SQLStorageAdapter automatically if they do not already exist https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/787
• Fix logging statement in sql adapter https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/800

• Run SQL storage adapter tests in memory https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/745
• Improve NLTK corpus download error message https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/765
• Make callable classes for comparing statements https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/766
• Add performance benchmarking to main module https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/768
• Open Ubuntu corpus tsv as utf-8 https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/782

Features

• Introduce beta version of Sqlalchemy storage adapter https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/693 https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/712
• Allow the Django app to be specified https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/705
• Create and use abstract base models for Django https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/715

Testing

• Enable PEP8 checks in Travis CI https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/702 https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/714
• Only check if MongoDB is running once per Mongo test case https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/713

Documentation

• Added term glossary to documentation https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/689

Bug fixes

• Fix format of Django API view response data #608
• Prevent non-string type values from breaking comparison algorithms #655

Improvements

• Enhancement of the decimal percent of similarity in levenshtein_distance (via @addelll) https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/618
• Add Django Setting to allow ChatterBot Statement objects to be used instead of Django Statement model (via @web-maker) #653

Breaking changes

• Change logic adapters to just return one value #587
• The confidence value is no longer returned from the generate_response method (it's available on the statement object now) #588
• Remove confidence parameter from output adapter process methods #589
• Require session id for generate_response method #598

Conversations

• Create conversation model #594

Corpus

• Add data to English dialog corpus (via @vkosuri) #516
• Migrated corpus module to a new separate repository (https://github.com/gunthercox/chatterbot-corpus) [#654]

Features

• Allow custom file paths to ChatterBot corpus files [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/549]
• Support for Turkish math words (via @yusuf-celik) [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/558]
• Return confidence value on statement object [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/565]
• Convert clean_whitespace utility into a preprocessor [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/569]
• Allow seed word to be set for Twitter training adapter [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/578]
• Fix issue whre ^ ends up being used as bitwise XOR instead of ** for powers (via @martmists) [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/582]

Bug fixes

• The nltk.data.find argument needs to be a path, not just a filename (via @Gaboose) [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/548]
• Add missing serialize method to Response model [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/557]
• Fix comparison in levenshtein (via @gballardin) [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/579]
• Fix "empty generator" bug in ChatBot.filters (via @thesprockee) [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/580]
• Fix display formatting for exponents [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/584]

Maintenance

• Only control write permission in the ChatBot class [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/561]
• Disconnect storage from adapter class [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/552]
• Add tests for examples [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/586]

Deprecation

• Remove deprecated code [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/542]

Documentation

• Document training path methods [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/550]
• Add more examples and expand tutorial in documentation [https://github.com/gunthercox/ChatterBot/pull/564]