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/**
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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.net.URL;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.text.DateFormat;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Calendar;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.amazon.speech.slu.Intent;
import com.amazon.speech.slu.Slot;
import com.amazon.speech.speechlet.IntentRequest;
import com.amazon.speech.speechlet.LaunchRequest;
import com.amazon.speech.speechlet.Session;
import com.amazon.speech.speechlet.SessionEndedRequest;
import com.amazon.speech.speechlet.SessionStartedRequest;
import com.amazon.speech.speechlet.Speechlet;
import com.amazon.speech.speechlet.SpeechletException;
import com.amazon.speech.speechlet.SpeechletResponse;
import com.amazon.speech.ui.OutputSpeech;
import com.amazon.speech.ui.PlainTextOutputSpeech;
import com.amazon.speech.ui.SsmlOutputSpeech;
import com.amazon.speech.ui.Reprompt;
import com.amazon.speech.ui.SimpleCard;

/**
 * This sample shows how to create a Lambda function for handling Alexa Skill requests that:
 * 
 * <ul>
 * <li><b>Web service</b>: communicate with an external web service to get events for specified days
 * in history (Wikipedia API)</li>
 * <li><b>Pagination</b>: after obtaining a list of events, read a small subset of events and wait
 * for user prompt to read the next subset of events by maintaining session state</li>
 * <p>
 * <li><b>Dialog and Session state</b>: Handles two models, both a one-shot ask and tell model, and
 * a multi-turn dialog model</li>
 * <li><b>SSML</b>: Using SSML tags to control how Alexa renders the text-to-speech</li>
 * </ul>
 * <p>
 * <h2>Examples</h2>
 * <p>
 * <b>One-shot model</b>
 * <p>
 * User: "Alexa, ask History Buff what happened on August thirtieth."
 * <p>
 * Alexa: "For August thirtieth, in 2003, [...] . Wanna go deeper in history?"
 * <p>
 * User: "No."
 * <p>
 * Alexa: "Good bye!"
 * <p>
 * 
 * <b>Dialog model</b>
 * <p>
 * User: "Alexa, open History Buff"
 * <p>
 * Alexa: "History Buff. What day do you want events for?"
 * <p>
 * User: "August thirtieth."
 * <p>
 * Alexa: "For August thirtieth, in 2003, [...] . Wanna go deeper in history?"
 * <p>
 * User: "Yes."
 * <p>
 * Alexa: "In 1995, Bosnian war [...] . Wanna go deeper in history?"
 * <p>
 * User: "No."
 * <p>
 * Alexa: "Good bye!"
 * <p>
 */
public class SportsBroadcastsSpeechlet implements Speechlet {
    private static final Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(SportsBroadcastsSpeechlet.class);

    /**
     * URL prefix to download history content from Wikipedia.
     */
    private static final String URL_PREFIX = "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&prop=extracts"
            + "&format=json&explaintext=&exsectionformat=plain&redirects=&titles=";

    /**
     * Constant defining number of events to be read at one time.
     */
    private static final int PAGINATION_SIZE = 3;

    /**
     * Length of the delimiter between individual events.
     */
    private static final int DELIMITER_SIZE = 2;

    /**
     * Constant defining session attribute key for the event index.
     */
    private static final String SESSION_INDEX = "index";

    /**
     * Constant defining session attribute key for the event text key for date of events.
     */
    private static final String SESSION_TEXT = "text";

    /**
     * Constant defining session attribute key for the intent slot key for the date of events.
     */
    private static final String SLOT_DAY = "day";

    /**
     * Size of events from Wikipedia response.
     */
    private static final int SIZE_OF_EVENTS = 10;

    /**
     * Array of month names.
     */
    private static final String[] MONTH_NAMES = { "January", "February", "March", "April", "May", "June", "July",
            "August", "September", "October", "November", "December" };

    @Override
    public void onSessionStarted(final SessionStartedRequest request, final Session session)
            throws SpeechletException {
        log.info("onSessionStarted requestId={}, sessionId={}", request.getRequestId(), session.getSessionId());

        // any initialization logic goes here
    }

    @Override
    public SpeechletResponse onLaunch(final LaunchRequest request, final Session session)
            throws SpeechletException {
        log.info("onLaunch requestId={}, sessionId={}", request.getRequestId(), session.getSessionId());

        return getWelcomeResponse();
    }

    @Override
    public SpeechletResponse onIntent(final IntentRequest request, final Session session)
            throws SpeechletException {
        log.info("onIntent requestId={}, sessionId={}", request.getRequestId(), session.getSessionId());

        Intent intent = request.getIntent();
        String intentName = intent.getName();

        if ("GetFirstEventIntent".equals(intentName)) {
            return handleFirstEventRequest(intent, session);
        } else if ("GetNextEventIntent".equals(intentName)) {
            return handleNextEventRequest(session);
        } else if ("AMAZON.HelpIntent".equals(intentName)) {
            // Create the plain text output.
            String speechOutput = "With History Buff, you can get" + " historical events for any day of the year."
                    + " For example, you could say today,"
                    + " or August thirtieth, or you can say exit. Now, which day do you want?";

            String repromptText = "Which day do you want?";

            return newAskResponse(speechOutput, false, repromptText, false);
        } else if ("AMAZON.StopIntent".equals(intentName)) {
            PlainTextOutputSpeech outputSpeech = new PlainTextOutputSpeech();
            outputSpeech.setText("Goodbye");

            return SpeechletResponse.newTellResponse(outputSpeech);
        } else if ("AMAZON.CancelIntent".equals(intentName)) {
            PlainTextOutputSpeech outputSpeech = new PlainTextOutputSpeech();
            outputSpeech.setText("Goodbye");

            return SpeechletResponse.newTellResponse(outputSpeech);
        } else {
            throw new SpeechletException("Invalid Intent");
        }
    }

    @Override
    public void onSessionEnded(final SessionEndedRequest request, final Session session) throws SpeechletException {
        log.info("onSessionEnded requestId={}, sessionId={}", request.getRequestId(), session.getSessionId());

        // any session cleanup logic would go here
    }

    /**
     * Function to handle the onLaunch skill behavior.
     * 
     * @return SpeechletResponse object with voice/card response to return to the user
     */
    private SpeechletResponse getWelcomeResponse() {
        String speechOutput = "History buff. What day do you want events for?";
        // If the user either does not reply to the welcome message or says something that is not
        // understood, they will be prompted again with this text.
        String repromptText = "With History Buff, you can get historical events for any day of the year. "
                + " For example, you could say today, or August thirtieth." + " Now, which day do you want?";

        return newAskResponse(speechOutput, false, repromptText, false);
    }

    /**
     * Function to accept an intent containing a Day slot (date object) and return the Calendar
     * representation of that slot value. If the user provides a date, then use that, otherwise use
     * today. The date is in server time, not in the user's time zone. So "today" for the user may
     * actually be tomorrow.
     * 
     * @param intent
     *            the intent object containing the day slot
     * @return the Calendar representation of that date
     */
    private Calendar getCalendar(Intent intent) {
        Slot daySlot = intent.getSlot(SLOT_DAY);
        Date date;
        Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
        if (daySlot != null && daySlot.getValue() != null) {
            DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-d");
            try {
                date = dateFormat.parse(daySlot.getValue());
            } catch (ParseException e) {
                date = new Date();
            }
        } else {
            date = new Date();
        }
        calendar.setTime(date);
        return calendar;
    }

    /**
     * Prepares the speech to reply to the user. Obtain events from Wikipedia for the date specified
     * by the user (or for today's date, if no date is specified), and return those events in both
     * speech and SimpleCard format.
     * 
     * @param intent
     *            the intent object which contains the date slot
     * @param session
     *            the session object
     * @return SpeechletResponse object with voice/card response to return to the user
     */
    private SpeechletResponse handleFirstEventRequest(Intent intent, Session session) {
        Calendar calendar = getCalendar(intent);
        String month = MONTH_NAMES[calendar.get(Calendar.MONTH)];
        String date = Integer.toString(calendar.get(Calendar.DATE));

        String speechPrefixContent = "<p>For " + month + " " + date + "</p> ";
        String cardPrefixContent = "For " + month + " " + date + ", ";
        String cardTitle = "Events on " + month + " " + date;

        ArrayList<String> events = getJsonEventsFromWikipedia(month, date);
        String speechOutput = "";
        if (events.isEmpty()) {
            speechOutput = "There is a problem connecting to Wikipedia at this time." + " Please try again later.";

            // Create the plain text output
            SsmlOutputSpeech outputSpeech = new SsmlOutputSpeech();
            outputSpeech.setSsml("<speak>" + speechOutput + "</speak>");

            return SpeechletResponse.newTellResponse(outputSpeech);
        } else {
            StringBuilder speechOutputBuilder = new StringBuilder();
            speechOutputBuilder.append(speechPrefixContent);
            StringBuilder cardOutputBuilder = new StringBuilder();
            cardOutputBuilder.append(cardPrefixContent);
            for (int i = 0; i < PAGINATION_SIZE; i++) {
                speechOutputBuilder.append("<p>");
                speechOutputBuilder.append(events.get(i));
                speechOutputBuilder.append("</p> ");
                cardOutputBuilder.append(events.get(i));
                cardOutputBuilder.append("\n");
            }
            speechOutputBuilder.append(" Wanna go deeper in history?");
            cardOutputBuilder.append(" Wanna go deeper in history?");
            speechOutput = speechOutputBuilder.toString();

            String repromptText = "With History Buff, you can get historical events for any day of the year."
                    + " For example, you could say today, or August thirtieth." + " Now, which day do you want?";

            // Create the Simple card content.
            SimpleCard card = new SimpleCard();
            card.setTitle(cardTitle);
            card.setContent(cardOutputBuilder.toString());

            // After reading the first 3 events, set the count to 3 and add the events
            // to the session attributes
            session.setAttribute(SESSION_INDEX, PAGINATION_SIZE);
            session.setAttribute(SESSION_TEXT, events);

            SpeechletResponse response = newAskResponse("<speak>" + speechOutput + "</speak>", true, repromptText,
                    false);
            response.setCard(card);
            return response;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Prepares the speech to reply to the user. Obtains the list of events as well as the current
     * index from the session attributes. After getting the next set of events, increment the index
     * and store it back in session attributes. This allows us to obtain new events without making
     * repeated network calls, by storing values (events, index) during the interaction with the
     * user.
     * 
     * @param session
     *            object containing session attributes with events list and index
     * @return SpeechletResponse object with voice/card response to return to the user
     */
    private SpeechletResponse handleNextEventRequest(Session session) {
        String cardTitle = "More events on this day in history";
        ArrayList<String> events = (ArrayList<String>) session.getAttribute(SESSION_TEXT);
        int index = (Integer) session.getAttribute(SESSION_INDEX);
        String speechOutput = "";
        String cardOutput = "";
        if (events == null) {
            speechOutput = "With History Buff, you can get historical events for any day of the year."
                    + " For example, you could say today, or August thirtieth." + " Now, which day do you want?";
        } else if (index >= events.size()) {
            speechOutput = "There are no more events for this date. Try another date by saying, "
                    + " get events for august thirtieth.";
        } else {
            StringBuilder speechOutputBuilder = new StringBuilder();
            StringBuilder cardOutputBuilder = new StringBuilder();
            for (int i = 0; i < PAGINATION_SIZE && index < events.size(); i++) {
                speechOutputBuilder.append("<p>");
                speechOutputBuilder.append(events.get(index));
                speechOutputBuilder.append("</p> ");
                cardOutputBuilder.append(events.get(index));
                cardOutputBuilder.append(" ");
                index++;
            }
            if (index < events.size()) {
                speechOutputBuilder.append(" Wanna go deeper in history?");
                cardOutputBuilder.append(" Wanna go deeper in history?");
            }
            session.setAttribute(SESSION_INDEX, index);
            speechOutput = speechOutputBuilder.toString();
            cardOutput = cardOutputBuilder.toString();
        }
        String repromptText = "Do you want to know more about what happened on this date?";

        // Create the Simple card content.
        SimpleCard card = new SimpleCard();
        card.setTitle(cardTitle);
        card.setContent(cardOutput.toString());

        SpeechletResponse response = newAskResponse("<speak>" + speechOutput + "</speak>", true, repromptText,
                false);
        response.setCard(card);
        return response;
    }

    /**
     * Download JSON-formatted list of events from Wikipedia, for a defined day/date, and return a
     * String array of the events, with each event representing an element in the array.
     * 
     * @param month
     *            the month to get events for, example: April
     * @param date
     *            the date to get events for, example: 7
     * @return String array of events for that date, 1 event per element of the array
     */
    private ArrayList<String> getJsonEventsFromWikipedia(String month, String date) {
        InputStreamReader inputStream = null;
        BufferedReader bufferedReader = null;
        String text = "";
        try {
            String line;
            URL url = new URL(URL_PREFIX + month + "_" + date);
            inputStream = new InputStreamReader(url.openStream(), Charset.forName("US-ASCII"));
            bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(inputStream);
            StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
            while ((line = bufferedReader.readLine()) != null) {
                builder.append(line);
            }
            text = builder.toString();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            // reset text variable to a blank string
            text = "";
        } finally {
            IOUtils.closeQuietly(inputStream);
            IOUtils.closeQuietly(bufferedReader);
        }
        return parseJson(text);
    }

    /**
     * Parse JSON-formatted list of events/births/deaths from Wikipedia, extract list of events and
     * split the events into a String array of individual events. Run Regex matchers to make the
     * list pretty by adding a comma after the year to add a pause, and by removing a unicode char.
     * 
     * @param text
     *            the JSON formatted list of events/births/deaths for a certain date
     * @return String array of events for that date, 1 event per element of the array
     */
    private ArrayList<String> parseJson(String text) {
        // sizeOf (\nEvents\n) is 10
        text = text.substring(text.indexOf("\\nEvents\\n") + SIZE_OF_EVENTS, text.indexOf("\\n\\n\\nBirths"));
        ArrayList<String> events = new ArrayList<String>();
        if (text.isEmpty()) {
            return events;
        }
        int startIndex = 0, endIndex = 0;
        while (endIndex != -1) {
            endIndex = text.indexOf("\\n", startIndex + DELIMITER_SIZE);
            String eventText = (endIndex == -1 ? text.substring(startIndex) : text.substring(startIndex, endIndex));
            // replace dashes returned in text from Wikipedia's API
            Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("\\\\u2013\\s*");
            Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(eventText);
            eventText = matcher.replaceAll("");
            // add comma after year so Alexa pauses before continuing with the sentence
            pattern = Pattern.compile("(^\\d+)");
            matcher = pattern.matcher(eventText);
            if (matcher.find()) {
                eventText = matcher.replaceFirst(matcher.group(1) + ",");
            }
            eventText = "In " + eventText;
            startIndex = endIndex + 2;
            events.add(eventText);
        }
        Collections.reverse(events);
        return events;
    }

    /**
     * Wrapper for creating the Ask response from the input strings.
     * 
     * @param stringOutput
     *            the output to be spoken
     * @param isOutputSsml
     *            whether the output text is of type SSML
     * @param repromptText
     *            the reprompt for if the user doesn't reply or is misunderstood.
     * @param isRepromptSsml
     *            whether the reprompt text is of type SSML
     * @return SpeechletResponse the speechlet response
     */
    private SpeechletResponse newAskResponse(String stringOutput, boolean isOutputSsml, String repromptText,
            boolean isRepromptSsml) {
        OutputSpeech outputSpeech, repromptOutputSpeech;
        if (isOutputSsml) {
            outputSpeech = new SsmlOutputSpeech();
            ((SsmlOutputSpeech) outputSpeech).setSsml(stringOutput);
        } else {
            outputSpeech = new PlainTextOutputSpeech();
            ((PlainTextOutputSpeech) outputSpeech).setText(stringOutput);
        }

        if (isRepromptSsml) {
            repromptOutputSpeech = new SsmlOutputSpeech();
            ((SsmlOutputSpeech) repromptOutputSpeech).setSsml(repromptText);
        } else {
            repromptOutputSpeech = new PlainTextOutputSpeech();
            ((PlainTextOutputSpeech) repromptOutputSpeech).setText(repromptText);
        }
        Reprompt reprompt = new Reprompt();
        reprompt.setOutputSpeech(repromptOutputSpeech);
        return SpeechletResponse.newAskResponse(outputSpeech, reprompt);
    }

}