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[Reactor] Services with sync response

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  • toggledbitsT toggledbits

    OK. Still not fully there for me. When you run the HTTP Request action, it waits for the response, and then stores the response in the specified local variable. That value is now available to the remainder of the Reaction, so you can send it to TTS.

    What am I missing?

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    I don't want to use an HTTP action, but a controller one! Right now it's impossible to save entity action response to a variable, if I'm not missing something. The question is this: how to build the same flow using a controller action?

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      But you can use the entity-based action response as if it was a variable. It is in many ways better, in fact, because there's a ton more code required in Reactor to make rule conditions responsive to variables than there is to make it responsive to attributes — attributes are very efficient.

      I know you don't want to use an HTTP Request, but I want to know why. I guess I'm not understanding what's inadequate about the HTTP Request for your purpose in the first place.

      Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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        My /ai/prompt endpoint encapsulate the logic to query OpenAI. That's great for me personally (so, not really shareable with the community), but that's another moving part in the system that could potentially fail. This is a simple web API that is proxying OpenAI (in this case Azure Open AI, but that's the same). It is acting as my controller, but it's not reusable, it's prone to errors and I think an OpenAIController will be better than this.

        All that said:

        But you can use the entity-based action response as if it was a variable. It is in many ways better, in fact, because there's a ton more code required in Reactor to make rule conditions responsive to variables than there is to make it responsive to attributes — attributes are very efficient.

        So, you think that it's better to have two rules, one triggering the request and another looking for the response and watching the attributes (ie: response and response_id, tied to a request_id from the original prompt)?

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          I'm not understanding why you think it takes two rules.

          If you run an HTTP Request and store the response in a local variable, the next step in the same Reaction has access to that local variable. And the contents of that local variable will be exactly the response to the request, not any other request (so no ID tracking is necessary). The Rule that triggers the request can be the same rule that processes it.

          Are you assuming that the HTTP Request action is asynchronous when storing the result? Because it's not. It will wait for the result and store it before moving on to the next step of the Reaction. That's documented.

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            No, I'm quite experienced and I know how a promise works 😬

            Anyway, the point here is different but I'm not able to fully explain myself. I'm out for work for a couple of days, but I'll post a photoshopped solution, so I hope things will be more clear.

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              No, I'm quite experienced and I know how a promise works 😬

              Anyway, the point here is different but I'm not able to fully explain myself. I'm out for work for a couple of days, but I'll post a photoshopped solution, so I hope things will be more clear.

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              @therealdb said in [Reactor] Services with sync response:

              No, I'm quite experienced and I know how a promise works

              I'm not talking about a Promise, and of course I know well that you know how that works. I'm talking about the HTTP Request action in a Reaction. It waits for the response and stores it, so that the rest of the steps of the Reaction can work with the response received. If that doesn't address your need, I'm unclear how.

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                ok, so, here's a photoshopped version of the ideal world I'm trying to describe:

                image.png

                The point here is that I don't want to do an HTTP request, I want to call an entity action and capture the result, if any, in a variable. Keep in mind that I'm describing an ideal world, and I'm OK to alternative solutions that still uses a Controller (and not an HTTP Action, that's temporary and I want to move to a custom Controller), wait for a response from a service, capture it and use in the same flow, if possible.

                So, more like services than entity-oriented controller.

                I hope this is better explained now. Thanks!

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                  OK. I think I see where you are going. I was bogged down by the HTTP part, since that's existing functionality you can solve the problem with today. You're really asking for something much bigger. You just generally want entity actions to be able to return data, which they currently don't, so you can do things like:

                  • Return the next upcoming event from a calendar;
                  • Receive a value and look it up in a table, then return the found result;
                  • Given the name of a playlist on a media player, return the list of media it contains.
                  • Given the symbol for a security or crypto coin, return its current price.
                  • Run a script on Home Assistant and receive whatever response it returned.

                  And you want this to work in-line in Reactions, without necessarily binding the result value to an attribute on the entity performing the action, or having to preconfigure an input in YAML config (e.g. the symbol for a stock or crypto asset to be fetched/polled). The result value is, in fact, typically temporary and not useful outside the context of the Reaction (although it and values derived from it can be stored otherwise by other steps of the Reaction).

                  Do I have it now?

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                  • toggledbitsT toggledbits

                    OK. I think I see where you are going. I was bogged down by the HTTP part, since that's existing functionality you can solve the problem with today. You're really asking for something much bigger. You just generally want entity actions to be able to return data, which they currently don't, so you can do things like:

                    • Return the next upcoming event from a calendar;
                    • Receive a value and look it up in a table, then return the found result;
                    • Given the name of a playlist on a media player, return the list of media it contains.
                    • Given the symbol for a security or crypto coin, return its current price.
                    • Run a script on Home Assistant and receive whatever response it returned.

                    And you want this to work in-line in Reactions, without necessarily binding the result value to an attribute on the entity performing the action, or having to preconfigure an input in YAML config (e.g. the symbol for a stock or crypto asset to be fetched/polled). The result value is, in fact, typically temporary and not useful outside the context of the Reaction (although it and values derived from it can be stored otherwise by other steps of the Reaction).

                    Do I have it now?

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                    @toggledbits yes sir. That why you're the master and I'm your humble follower 🤣

                    Because I know it's not trivial, I'm also asking for guidance on how to achieve something similar with what we have today. Thanks.

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                      I'm on it. Sit tight.

                      Author of Multi-system Reactor and Reactor, DelayLight, Switchboard, and about a dozen other plugins that run on Vera and openLuup.

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