Booker Bot

Discord to IRC bridge for ozfortress server booking. Allows Discord users to type in IRC booking commands, and will be PM'd relevant information.

It just runs as a standalone nodejs console application I guess?

Discord Commands

The Bot only listens to commands via PM or in #servers channel.

/book - Book a new server under user's Discord username

/unbook - Unbook server

/demos - Get STV demo repository for specified user

/servers - List the status of all servers

/help - Displays commands

Required Modules

discord.js bash npm install --no-optional discord.js

node-irc bash npm install irc

sanitize-html bash npm install sanitize-html

columnify bash npm install columnify@latest

To Do List

• Make verifyUserFor[] account for potential program resets.

• Clean up console logging to be log friendly. And clean up everything else I guess.

• Ensure proper CPU utilization.

• Let user choose booking duration/map selection (if possible).

• Try to make BookServer() check for user.id instead of user.username.

• Probably check contents of pendingRequests[] every x minutes/hours and remove empty values.

• Separate all the crap instead of having a huge ass app.js.

• Decide on whether certain messages should be PMs or broadcasts. Sensitive details = @PM. Server list/help = @Reply.

• Listen for iPGN automatically resetting servers (then run UpdateServerList()). Definitely not necessary anymore.

• Figure out what happens when servers are full and how to deal with it. Done.

• Update bookings[] and demoRequests[] to utilize Server List instead. Done.

• See if Client caching could be of benefit. (Client.add(), Client.remove()). Most likely not necessary.

Etc

I'll be honest, I still suck ass at using Github.

Previous repo: smesbot

Some problems

You can ignore this, I just add this here to remember some core issues / solutions

verifyUserFor[] stores the Discord ID of who booked what number server. (e.g. verifyUserFor[1] = "123456" means Server 1 is booked by Discord User with ID 123456)

This is helpful to handle if users have duplicate usernames, since IDs are unique.

The problem is that servers are booked under usernames. This is done for user simplicity and intuitivity.

For example, if bookings were made under IDs, requesting a demo would be a problem.

• /demos John is more intuitive than /demos 123456789.

• In fact, it's probably not possible to find out Discord IDs easily.

• Discord ID -> username is not a problem but username -> Discord ID is a problem.

Then it seems the main problem would be retrieving demos. It could be done such that /demos John retrieves a list of all users named John, then get demo links using their IDs.

The biggest benefit of booking under Discord IDs is that if the Booker Bot crashes, when it restarts to retrieve the server list, the bookings will be unique Discord IDs. Even if two users had the same username, it would look like this:

Server 1 - 123456789

Server 2 - 696969696

The program can rebuild verifyUserFor[]. If necessary, do a lookup on users and convert ID to username for readability.

Booking under usernames would look like this:

Server 1 - John

Server 2 - John

There is no way for the program to rebuild verifyUserFor[] if there are duplicate usernames.

Therefore, the sacrifice for reliability is /demos functionality. Solution is TBD.