One interesting thing I have noticed working on Java for the past maybe 2 months, is that coming back to Clojure has been interesting.
It was a little rough getting my handle on working quickly.
That was the mildly interesting part , what I wanted to focus on was updating my map.
{:game-id 1
:player-1 {:kind :human :token "X"}
:player-2 {:kind :human :token "O"}
:size :3x3 :moves [1 2 3 4 5 6 7]}
{:game-id 1
:player-1 {:kind :ai :difficulty :easy :token "X"}
:player-2 {:kind :ai :difficulty :hard :token "O"}
:size :3x3 :moves [1 2 3 4 5 6 7]}
The first map is what I can do since I just focused on humans. The second part is what I need to change my map to If I want to connect.
I will focus on making my correct map in this new Web Tic Tac Toe.
Part of my problem is I have been checking the request and updating my map based on the information. I need to create at least another function to do this well for getting the size of the board and also to help describe the player that I have.
(defn get-value [params-map key default]
(let [value (get params-map key)]
(or (case value
"3x3" :3x3
"4x4" :4x4
"ai_hard" :hard
"ai_medium" :medium
"ai_easy" :easy
"hard" :hard
"medium" :medium
"easy" :easy
nil)
default)))
My default is usually human so this works for that specific use case. But now I am in the process of adding in the AI functionality.
I think my solution will be to add a get-player function and change it so if it says one of those values my player will contain {:kind :ai :difficulty :easy} rather that my current implementation which would be {:kind :easy} which does nothing when I try to connect to my previous system.
The other part I need to change how i send the information through the game.
(defn hidden-map [game]
(prn "(:kind (:player-1 game)):" (:kind (:player-1 game)))
(prn "(:kind (:player-2 game)):" (:kind (:player-2 game)))
(str "<input type='hidden' name='game-id' value='" (:game-id game) "'>"
"<input type='hidden' name='player_1' value='" (name (:kind (:player-1 game))) "'>" ;
"<input type='hidden' name='player_2' value='" (name (:kind (:player-2 game))) "'>"
"<input type='hidden' name='size' value='" (name (:size game)) "'>"
"<input type='hidden' name='moves' value='" (clojure.string/join "," (:moves game)) "'>"))
I send the kind, so right now all I know is if I am playing against an AI or a human.
Now I need to change that to if it says AI or difficulty I need to pass that through and add it to my map again when I pass the information under.
I do this of course because my server is stateless. So I must pass this information constantly to play
These are the fixes I will work on. Hopefully this will help me to connect AI effectively.
Best,
Merl