BotPlate

A Java IRC bot template-ish thing.

IRCBot.java

This contains the core functionality of the IRC bot. The constructor takes as arguments:

• IRC Server
• Channel
• Bot Nickname
• Port to connect to the server

It contains functions to write messages to a channel/person, as well as to write generic IRC commands.

Most importantly, it contains a collection of MessageHandler objects. The collection of MessageHandlers are initialized to contain a ping handler. On receiving the PING message from the server, this handler responds with a corresponding PONG message so the server does not drop our connection.

There exists an addHander function which allows a user to extend their bot with any MessageHandler object.

When a bot receives a message, it will iterate over all its MessageHandlers and call the handle function on the message.

MessageHandler.java

This is an abstract class with a concrete constructor, which takes the IRCBot it will be handling messages for as an argument, and stores it as an instance variable called bot.

There is exactly one abstract method:

abstract void handle(Message message);

Where Message is an object corresponding to the parts defined in the IRC client protocol, RFC 2812

Create MessageHandlers and add them to instances of IRCBots to augment their functionality.

App.java

An example IRCBot implementation, which contains a MessageHandler that when it hears "hello exampleBot" in the channel, it responds with "Hey!"