Hi! I am building for free a tool children to learn and play board games. For this board game there is an AI engine that works on command line. I installed this engine (including its books (=internal database with moves)) on an EC2 linux instance. I can run it and it works. Wow. Anyway, for a non-expert this is a win already.
Anyway, I want to be able to somehow call this AI engine and send some simple (as per AI protocol) commands and wait for the info back. Basically what would happen when I run the executable on and type the commands. I presume this requires some kind of API that I then can call? I have no clue. I am just a simple man trying to do something good and if someone can help me he/she will be honored on the website forever! Please!
I am available to supply all info!
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The best option is if the AIengine has a published API. Failing thatm can the command-line AI engine be called with commands passed as parameters or is it only interactive? If the former then you can front-end the commands to make an API. Otherwise you may need to write a screen scraper - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_scraping
I am not totally familiar with all you say. The AI engine can be started on a linux instance like e.g. './AI hub' the hub parameter then allows me to communicate with the engine by typing simple commands and then it spits out a lot of data and ends with a move. So I want to basically run this AI engine on AWS and then from a distance (from my App) send the commands there and get the info back.