GSoC 2019 - Send IRC Message to Bot

[botanicvelious]

This task involves writing the base code necessary to send a message to the in the #python-gsoc channel on @freenode IRC.

[sounak98]

@botanicvelious does this bot need to send occasional messages (one or two messages and then disconnect) or does it need to stay active and respond to messages from other users?

[botanicvelious]

This code would be to send messages -to- the bot to configure it. For example when a new sub-org is added it would send to PyGSOCBot the messages below based on the items in the suborg form

@messageparser add global "(?i)suborg list" "echo The 2019 suborgs are MNE-Python, PySAL, PSF GSoC Team, SciPy, StarKit, Nuitka, MSS - Mission Support System, EOS Design System, Scrapy, Statsmodels, Buildbot, CVE Binary Tool, Mercurial, <new org>!"
@messageparser add global "(?i)what is <new org>" "echo <new org>is an open-source ..."
@messageparser add global "(?i)contact <new org>" "echo Please see http://<new org>/contact.html"
@messageparser add global "(?i)<new org> ideas" "echo Please see https://<new org>/GSoC-Projects-2019"

[sounak98]

So basically the code needs to run when a new sub-org is added or events like that. This code doesn't need to listen for messages, it just needs to send commands to the other bots present in the channel. Am I right @botanicvelious?

[botanicvelious]

That is correct, this would just send messages to the limnoria bot which handles all the replies etc

[botanicvelious]

Note: for messages more than 202 characters, you would need to send it in pieces like below

@aka add msg1 "echo looooooong"
@aka add msg2 "echo messaaaaage"
@messageparser add global "(?i)test list" [echo echo [msg1] [msg2]]
@aka remove msg1
@aka remove msg2

[sounak98]

@messageparser add global "(?i)test list" [echo echo [msg1] [msg2]]

Do you mean the final message that needs to be sent for the corresponding message above is '@messageparser add global "(?i)test list" [echo echo [msg1] [msg2]]'?

And also do you think we should use a light-weight framework like FredIRC or write a low-level implementation for the same purpose? The plus point for using FredIRC is that it is event-driven and so we can easily send the commands when joined and disconnect when the purpose is served (the commands are sent).

[botanicvelious]

That sounds fine, for the longer messages irc pm's only allow 202 characters, as such you have to add an aka. This makes the bot replace msg1 internally with the aka

the format is exactly as above, so see below examples

<202 chars
@aka add msg1 "echo looooooong"
@messageparser add global "(?i)test list" [echo [msg1]]
@aka remove msg1

>202 < 404 chars
@aka add msg1 "echo looooooong"
@aka add msg2 "echo messaaaaage"
@messageparser add global "(?i)test list" [echo echo [msg1] [msg2]]
@aka remove msg1
@aka remove msg2

>404 < 606 chars
@aka add msg1 "echo reallllllly"
@aka add msg2 "echo looooooong"
@aka add msg3 "echo messaaaaage"
@messageparser add global "(?i)test list" [echo echo echo [msg1] [msg2] [msg3]]
@aka remove msg1
@aka remove msg2
@aka remove msg3

etc etc

Note: the "test list" would need to be a variable as that is the string the bot responds on