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The beepboop bot multi-team management python package

beepboop allows bot developers to run on the Beep Boop HQ bot hosting platform and support multiple teams from a single bot process. Simply import beepboop in your bot project and listen for events indicating a user has requested your bot to be added, updated, or removed from their team.

You can optionally make use of the BotManager class, which expects your bot to implement a simple interface consisting of two methods start(resource) and stop(resource). It uses these to manage a registry of bot instances to their allocated teams, and responds to the lower level events by spawning or removing instances of your bot per team. For an example python bot that uses this, see: BeepBoopHQ/starter-python-bot

Install

pip install beepboop

Use

Testing your bot locally

Please read this document to understand the responsibilities of the Resourcer API.

At a minimum, the client needs the following environment variables set which can be obtained from the development area of the http://beebboophq.com site.

• BEEPBOOP_RESOURCER -- url to the Beep Boop Server
• BEEPBOOP_TOKEN -- authentication token for Beep Boop Server
• BEEPBOOP_ID -- unique identifier for your bot process

In production, these values will be set automatically.

Connect to Beep Boop and listen for events like so:

import beepboop

# Fires when the connection with the Beep Boop resourcer has opened.
def on_open(ws):
    print('connection to Beep Boop server opened')

def on_message(ws, message):
    # Access the message type (e.g. add_resource, update_resource)
    print (message['type'])

handler_funcs = dict([
    ('on_open', on_open),
    ('on_message', on_message)
])

bp = beepboop.BeepBoop()
bp.handlers(handler_funcs)
bp.start()

see examples/simple.py for more, and also an example of how to use the BotManager.

Module: beepboop

Module has exported function start

BeepBoop.start()

• Creates a WebSocketApp instance that emits the following events. The events emitted are largely pass-throughs of events emitted by the core WebSocket implementation module used:

Event: open

• Emitted when the connection is established.

Event: error

• Errors with the connection and underlying WebSocket are emitted here.

Event: close

• Is emitted when the WebSocket connection is closed.

Event: add_resource

Is emitted when an add_resource message is received, indicating a user has requested an instance of the bot to be added to their team.

An example add_resource message:

{
  "type": "add_resource",
  "date": "2016-03-18T20:58:52.907804207Z",
  "msgID": "106e930b-1c83-4406-801d-caf04e30da71",
  // unique identifier for this team connection
  "resourceID": "75f9c7334807421bb914c1cff8d4486c",
  "resourceType": "SlackApp",
  "resource": {
    // Token you should use to connect to the Slack RTM API
    "SlackBotAccessToken": "xoxb-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "SlackTeamID": "XXXXXXXXX",
    "CUSTOM_CONFIG": "Value for CUSTOM_CONFIG"
  }
}

For keeping track of multiple team's RTM socket connections, you would want to create an mapping based on the message.resourceID, as it is the unique value you'll receive when a user requests to remove the bot from their team.

Event: update_resource

• Is emitted when an update_resource message is received, indicating a request to update the instance of the bot has been sent. The bot maker updating the bot, or a bot owner updating configuration are two cases that can trigger an update.

An update_resource message looks as follows, very similar to the add_resource:

{
  "type": "update_resource",
  "date": "2016-03-18T21:02:49.719711877Z",
  "msgID": "2ca94d34-ef04-4167-8363-c778d129b8f1",
  "resourceID": "75f9c7334807421bb914c1cff8d4486c",
  "resource": {
    "SlackBotAccessToken": "xoxb-xxxxxxxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
    "SlackTeamID": "XXXXXXXXX",
    "CUSTOM_CONFIG": "Updated Value for Config"
  }
}

Event: remove_resource

• Is emitted when an remove_resource message is received, indicating a bot owner has removed a bot from their team. You should disconnect from the Slack RTM API on behalf of the requested team.

A remove_resource message looks as follows:

{
  "type": "remove_resource",
  "date": "2016-03-18T20:58:46.567341241Z",
  "msgID": "a54f4b29-9872-45be-83fc-70ebc6ae7159",
  "resourceID": "75f9c7334807421bb914c1cff8d4486c"
}

Development

Its recommended to setup a virtual environment, e.g. virtualenv venv.

Then do pip install requirements.txt

You will need the following env vars set. In Prod, these would be passed in via Beep Boop.

BEEPBOOP_TOKEN, BEEPBOOP_ID, and BEEPBOOP_RESOURCER and you can get the appropriate values for these by going to the Dev Mode tab under your project on BeepBoop:

e.g. https://beepboophq.com/0_o/my-projects/{your-project-id}/develop

Run python ./examples/simple.py which registers listeners as a consuming app might.

Then you can Add Teams with varying config and listen for the messages from the Resourcer.