/* This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see . */ /* Copyright 2010 Joe Robinson */ import java.net.URL; import java.net.URLConnection; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; public class bladictionary { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { String query = args[0]; String[] parts = null; //URL which provides XML response URL url = new URL("http://services.aonaware.com/DictService/DictService.asmx/Define?word="+query); URLConnection urlc = url.openConnection(); BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(urlc.getInputStream())); String line; Boolean definition = false; Boolean definition2 = false; Boolean wn = false; Boolean foldoc = false; int fcount = 0; String result = ""; //Read every line while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) { //Get rid of whitespace before/after line = line.trim(); //only read WordNet definitions if (line.equals("wn")) { wn = true; } else if (line.equals("foldoc")) { //Read tech definitions too foldoc = true; if(result.equals("")) { result = result+"tech: "; } else { result = result+"; tech: "; } fcount++; } if(wn||foldoc) { //Look for start of a definition if (line.contains("")) { definition = true; definition2 = true; } //If we found a definition tag else if (definition) { //if it's the end of the word definition, stop reading if(line.contains("")) { definition = false; wn = false; foldoc = false; } else { if(wn) { if (line.substring(0,2).equals("n ") || line.substring(0,2).equals("v ") || line.substring(0,4).equals("adj ") || line.substring(0,4).equals("adv ")) { if(!result.equals("")) { result = result+"; "; } definition2 = true; } if(definition2) { if(Character.isLetter(line.charAt(0))) { parts = line.split("\\["); result = result + parts[0]; } else { definition2 = false; } } } //We only want one of these definitions else if(foldoc && fcount <=1 && !line.equals("")&&definition2) { //Delete bits in <>s, don't need this line = line.replaceAll("<.*?> ",""); //Get rid of {}s around words line = line.replaceAll("\\{",""); line = line.replaceAll("\\}",""); //Split it at a . - We only want the first sentence parts=line.split("\\."); if(parts.length>1) { definition2 = false; result = result + parts[0]; } else { result = result + line; } } } } } } if(!result.equals("")) { System.out.println(result); System.exit(0); } else { System.exit(1); } } }