Create a configuration layer

nicholasf / spoonbot

Spoonbot - an IRC bot written in Elixir with a simple command syntax.

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Create a configuration layer #1

Closed nicholasf closed 10 years ago

nicholasf commented 10 years ago

Our config should:

load from a file outside of git or listed in .gitignore (like spoonbot.json/yaml).
identify bridges and command modules (see the README) for the bot to use.
allow for miscellaneous configuration parameters that might be needed for bridges or commands. For e.g. the current IRC bridge needs a channel list and possible passwords.
provide a name for the spoonbot. Some bridges, e.g. irc, might use this to parse messages to work out if someone is invoking the bot.

bitwalker commented 10 years ago

A couple of TODOs around this as well:

Decide on config format (.exs, .json, *.yaml)
Are we supporting multiple bots?

I'll revisit my current IRC bot implementation and see if there are some useful things baked in there, but we're probably better off starting from scratch and base our ideas entirely around spoonbot's intended use case.

nicholasf commented 10 years ago

I'm working on a config DSL that reads from exs right now. It's an experiment but we'll see how that shapes up.

nicholasf commented 10 years ago

I've been working on this, hope to have something by the end of the weekend: https://github.com/nicholasf/conf