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Micro Bot

The micro bot is a bot that sits inside your microservices environment which you can interact with via Slack, HipChat, XMPP, etc. It mimics the functions of the CLI via messaging.

Supported Inputs

• Slack
• HipChat

Getting Started

Install Micro

go get github.com/micro/micro

Run with Slack

micro bot --inputs=slack --slack_token=SLACK_TOKEN

Run with HipChat

micro bot --inputs=hipchat --hipchat_username=XMPP_USER --hipchat_password=XMPP_PASSWORD

Use multiple inputs by specifying a comma separated list

micro bot --inputs=hipchat,slack --slack_token=SLACK_TOKEN --hipchat_username=XMPP_USER --hipchat_password=XMPP_PASSWORD

Help

In slack

micro help

deregister service [definition] - Deregisters a service
echo [text] - Returns the [text]
get service [name] - Returns a registered service
health [service] - Returns health of a service
hello - Returns a greeting
list services - Returns a list of registered services
ping - Returns pong
query [service] [method] [request] - Returns the response for a service query
register service [definition] - Registers a service
the three laws - Returns the three laws of robotics
time - Returns the server time

Adding new Commands

Commands are functions executed by the bot based on text based pattern matching.

Write a Command

import "github.com/micro/micro/bot/command"

func Ping() command.Command {
	usage := "ping"
	description := "Returns pong"

	return command.NewCommand("ping", usage, desc, func(args ...string) ([]byte, error) {
		return []byte("pong"), nil
	})
}

Register the command

Add the command to the Commands map with a pattern key that can be matched by golang/regexp.Match

import "github.com/micro/micro/bot/command"

func init() {
	command.Commands["^ping$"] = Ping()
}

Link the Command

Drop a link to your command into the top level dir

link_command.go:

import _ "path/to/import"

Adding new Inputs

Inputs are plugins for communication e.g Slack, HipChat, XMPP, IRC, SMTP, etc, etc.

New inputs can be added in the following way.

Write an Input

Write an input that satisfies the Input interface.

type Input interface {
	// Provide cli flags
	Flags() []cli.Flag
	// Initialise input using cli context
	Init(*cli.Context) error
	// Stream events from the input
	Stream() (Conn, error)
	// Start the input
	Start() error
	// Stop the input
	Stop() error
	// name of the input
	String() string
}

Register the input

Add the input to the Inputs map.

import "github.com/micro/micro/bot/input"

func init() {
	input.Inputs["name"] = MyInput
}

Link the input

Drop a link to your input into the top level dir

link_input.go:

import _ "path/to/import"