Make commands usable by bridged Matrix users

[GoodClover]

At current, Matrix users are unable to use slash-commands, but they can use inline detection or "traditional" commands (e.g. ?help). Adding the ability for the bot to detect if a message starts with /, and then treat it like a slash command would enable bridged users to use the commands.

Note that bridged users appear as bots.

[GoodClover]

At present I think this is practically impossible, as the code relies on the slash-command API strongly. Having our code detect a message beginning with / is easy, parsing the arguments not too hard either, but it's impossible to produce a slash command context from this for the existing slash command functions to use, and slash-command features such as hidden messages are impossible to create even if we don't use the slash-command context.

[UsefulRabbit]

A (very) alternate solution would be to rewrite the bot to work with Matrix and Discord; however, this would be tedious and you probably won't want to do this, especially from the hosting perspective.

[UsefulRabbit]

Little update: Slash commands now exist in Matrix. If the bridge could have support for that, then making some sort of patch for Matrix users would be unneeded on your bot.

[GoodClover]

The issue you linked is mentioning creating a consistent set of default slash-commands across clients, which to me implies that they are a client-side thing? I'm not a Matrix user though, so I may be entirely wrong.

If they are like Discord's slash-commands then the best thing to do is open a feature request on the GitHub repo for the bridge.

[UsefulRabbit]

The issue you linked is mentioning creating a consistent set of default slash-commands across clients, which to me implies that they are a client-side thing?

I'm not too sure of how they work, though I can assume it is somehow through the client.

If they are like Discord's slash-commands then the best thing to do is open a feature request on the GitHub repo for the bridge.

Yeah, I'll go ahead and do that. Thanks for the speedy reply!

[GoodClover]

With recent releases of slash-command it's now possible to do this fairly easy, as you can now have both slash command and "traditional" commands in one. Something like the following:

async def your_command(ctx, args): # args that are passed in your command
    # do stuff

@Bot.command()
async def this_is_a_normal_command(ctx, args):
    await your_command(ctx, args)

@slash.slash(...)
async def slash_command(ctx, args):
    await your_command(ctx, args)

This can probably be simplified to the following, not tested though.

async def your_command(ctx, args): # args that are passed in your command
    # do stuff

Bot.command()(your_command)
slash.slash(...)(your_command)

Note this requires moving from Client to Bot. There was a reason for using Client but I can't remember what it is now. (I assume it's not a problem anymore?)

The new button controls are obviously incompatible with Matrix. Other than /help none of the bot's commands use them though.