robota

Use Cisco Spark to provide robota.

Exposes extremely low-effort mechanism(s) for implementing personal bot slave(s).

Basic Usage

npm install --save robota; node -p 'require("robota")' # or: robota/es{5,6}

Provides a simple factory method, listen, which returns a Promise for a Bot.

The class Bot can #consumeAny Spark resource:event. (see details below)

In the future, it will likely make sense to support a plug-in Bot system.

class Bot

The constructor currently requires that credentials.access_token is passed.

const credentials = { access_token: process.env.CISCOSPARK_ACCESS_TOKEN }
const [name, secret, targetUrl] = [...] // webhook set-up prior to listening
new Bot(credentials).listenWebhook({ name, secret, targetUrl }, process.env.PORT)

• #listenWebhook(webhook, ...args): Promises HTTP Server#listen(...args)

Additional webhook properties include event/resource and filter, etc.

• #consumeAny(eventName, handler): easy to register handler(s); for example:

const credentials = { ... } // have to provide access_token (for Spark bot)
const webhook = { ... } // required: name, targetUrl; optional: secret, etc.
listen({ spark: { credentials, webhook } }, process.env.PORT).then((bot) => {
	bot.consumeAny('messages:created', function * echoDirectedMessage (spark) {
		if (spark.webhook.data.personEmail.endsWith('@sparkbot.io')) return
		const message = yield spark.bot.messages.get(spark.webhook.data.id)
		yield spark.bot.messages.create(message) // will pick roomId, text
	})
})

Integration Notes

P.S. The config module is awesome.

It can map process.env entities and may simplify many large configurations.