Medallia HipChat Notifier

Synopsis

Push notifications to a HipChat room.

Prerequisites

• NodeJS 4.X or higher
• A HipChat API token for and admin access to your team room

Creating a HipChat Room Token

1. Go to hipchat.com.
2. Click "rooms".
3. Click your room name.
4. Click "tokens".

Installation

npm install -g another-hipchat-notifier

Configuration

• Save the message to post to a text file
• Prepare the configuration file as shown below:

{
  "req-body": {
    "from": "Jira Board Notifier",
    "message_format": "text",
    "color": "red",
    "notify": "true"
    ...
  },
  "settings": {
    "api-token": "...",
    "room": "Room Name"
  }
}

The req-body section follows the room notification API from HipChat.

Usage

As a binary

ahn --config=<config-file> --template=<template-file>

# For more options
ahn --help

As a module

You can create a template file or specify the string message.

Create the template.msg file

Hi {dev1} {dev2}

Use the plugin

var notify = require('another-hipchat-notifier');

var context = {
  dev1: '@Eze',
  dev2: '@Lucia'
};

// Option 1
notify('./config.json', './template.msg', context)
    .then(body => console.log("Done!"))
    .catch(err => console.error("Something wrong happened."));

// Option 2
notify('./config.json', 'Hi {dev1} {dev2}', context)
    .then(body => console.log("Done!"))
    .catch(err => console.error("Something wrong happened."));

// Option 3
var config = {...};
notify(config, 'Hi {dev1} {dev2}', context)
    .then(body => console.log("Done!"))
    .catch(err => console.error("Something wrong happened."));

Development

Run test

npm install
npm test

License & Copyright

This software is copyrighted 2016 by Medallia, Inc. and released under the MIT License.