Hubot adapter for Visual Studio Online

You should report any issues or submit any pull requests to the Hubot adapter for Visual Studio Online repository.

Getting Started

Running Hubot on an Azure Web Site

If you want to run your Hubot instance on a Microsoft Azure Web Site and have it respond to commands from one (or more) team rooms, see How to: Running Hubot for Visual Studio Online on an Azure Web Site.

Installing the Hubot adapter for Visual Studio Online

First, create your own Hubot template by following the getting started instructions of the hubot repository.

Next, edit the package.json for your Hubot instance and add a dependency for hubot-vsonline:

    "dependencies": {
      "hubot-vsonline": "*",
      "hubot": ">= 2.0.0",
      ...
    }

Save the file and commit the changes to your Hubot's local Git repository.

Configuring the adapter

The following adapter parameters are required by the Hubot adapter for Visual Studio Online:

• HUBOT_VSONLINE_USERNAME - alternate credentials user name of the Hubot user (this user must be a member of any team room it needs to post responses to)
• HUBOT_VSONLINE_PASSWORD - alternate credentials password of the Hubot user
• HUBOT_VSONLINE_ACCOUNT - Visual Studio Online account name (for example, if the URL that you connect to is "https://yourname.visualstudio.com/" then use "yourname" as the account name)

The following adapter parameters are optional:

• HUBOT_VSONLINE_ADAPTER_BASIC_AUTH_USERNAME - basic auth user name for your Hubot instance
• HUBOT_VSONLINE_ADAPTER_BASIC_AUTH_PASSWORD - basic auth password for your Hubot instance
• HUBOT_VSONLINE_ROOMS - comma separated list of team room name that you would like Hubot to join on startup
• HUBOT_URL - HTTP endpoint that should receive messages. Defaults to /hubot/messagehook

The adapter also supports SSL. The following adapter parameters can be set:

• HUBOT_VSONLINE_SSL_ENABLE - set to true
• HUBOT_VSONLINE_SSL_PORT - defaults to 443
• HUBOT_VSONLINE_SSL_PRIVATE_KEY_PATH - location of private key
• HUBOT_VSONLINE_SSL_CERT_KEY_PATH - location of certificate
• HUBOT_VSONLINE_SSL_REQUESTCERT - true or false. Defaults to false. Request a client certificate
• HUBOT_VSONLINE_SSL_REJECTUNAUTHORIZED - true or false. Check certificate against CA list. Defaults to false
• HUBOT_VSONLINE_SSL_CA_KEY_PATH - Path to authority certificate. Default is null

The adapter also supports receiving team room messages posted to an Azure Service Bus queue. The following parameters are required:

• HUBOT_VSONLINE_ADAPTER_RECV_MODE - set to "servicebus".
• HUBOT_VSONLINE_ADAPTER_SERVICE_BUS_CONNECTION - The Service Bus SAS connection string
• HUBOT_VSONLINE_ADAPTER_SERVICE_BUS_QUEUE - Service Bus queue name

License

MIT