Table of Contents

• ircJS
  • client
    • Alias: ircJS.c
  • event
    • Alias: ircJS.e
  • connect
  • parsePrefix
  • send
• IRCPrefix

ircJS

Extends EventEmitter3

Extendable base class for ircJS classes

Parameters

• hostname string Hostname to connect to (optional, default 'irc.irc7.com')
• port number Server port to connect to (optional, default 6667)
• useTLS boolean? Describes if SSL/TLS encryption should be used (optional, default false)

Meta

• author: Joshua Davison <[email protected]>

client

The client object object contains multiple properties about the connection

Alias: ircJS.c

Type: Object

Properties

• away boolean Returns the value true or false depending on whether you are marked as away or not.
• me string Returns your current nickname.
• port number Returns the port specified in the constructor whether you are connected to the server or not.
• realName string Returns the connection's 'realname'. in the constructor whether you are connected or not.
• server string Returns the name of the server to which you are currently connected.
• serverTarget string Returns the address specified in the constructor whether you are connected to the server or not.
• ssl boolean Returns true if TLS/SSL was requested
• userName string Returns your current username

event

The events object contains multiple properties that are useful for dealing with the handling of events.

Alias: ircJS.e

Type: Object

Properties

• address string Returns the address of the user associated with an event in the form user@host.
• chann string Returns the name of the channel for a specific event. For all non-channel events chan will be $null.
• event string Returns the name of the event that was triggered.
• fulladdress string Returns the full address of the user triggering an event in the form nick!user@host.
• nick string Returns the nickname of the user associated with an event.
• numeric string Returns the nickname of the user associated with an event.
• rawMsg string Returns raw server line for server events.
• site string Returns the portion of $address after the @ for the user associated with an event in the form user@host.
• target string Returns the target of an event.

connect

Connect the ircJS to the host specified in construction

Parameters

• callback Function? An optional callback for when the client has successfully connected.

Returns object Instance of ircJS

parsePrefix

Converts a string representation of an IRC server/user (prefix) into a javascript object.

Parameters

• prefix string

Returns IRCPrefix

send

Used to send an unterminated string to the IRC server.

Parameters

• data String? Data to be send to server (optional, default '')

Returns object Current instance of ircJS

IRCPrefix

An object containing information extracted from an IRC prefix

Type: Object

Parameters

• target
• text

Properties

• source string The full IRC prefix used to create this object
• name string The servername/nick of the prefix
• user string The username/ident of the prefix
• host string The hostname of the prefix
• server string The server that the IRCPrefix is connected to