Hubot commands as /slash commands in slack

[bhoomit]

Can we add selective hubot commands as /slash commands so we can use autocomplete?

[technicalpickles]

Slash commands are manually configured from the Team settings 😓 Another problem is that the output of Slash commands is only visible to the user using it, which might not always be what you want.

Hubot includes expressjs so you could make a http listener for receiving a Slash command, and configure it yourself.

[bhoomit]

Look at the implementation of "Room" integration. They are able to add
/room without user's intervention.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Josh Nichols notifications@github.com
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Slash commands are manually configured from the Team settings [image:
😓] Another problem is that the output of Slash commands is only
visible to the user using it, which might not always be what you want.

Hubot includes expressjs http://expressjs.com/ so you could make a http
listener https://hubot.github.com/docs/scripting/#http-listener for
receiving a Slash command, and configure it yourself.

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[technicalpickles]

There is /giphy too which posts publicly. But you can't do that for your own integrations or slash commands as far as I can tell.

On Sep 10, 2015, at 2:21 AM, Bhoomit notifications@github.com wrote:

Look at the implementation of "Room" integration. They are able to add
/room without user's intervention.

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 12:52 AM, Josh Nichols notifications@github.com
wrote:

Slash commands are manually configured from the Team settings [image:
😓] Another problem is that the output of Slash commands is only
visible to the user using it, which might not always be what you want.

Hubot includes expressjs http://expressjs.com/ so you could make a http
listener https://hubot.github.com/docs/scripting/#http-listener for
receiving a Slash command, and configure it yourself.

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Bhoomit Vasani | SE @ Mygola
Just launched "Perfect Day"
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/perfect-day-in-singapore-better/id905943013
91-8892949849
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[technicalpickles]

I'm pretty sure official integrations can do more than just Slash commands. Basically, Slack would need to support more options for Slash commands before this could be done 😓

[farski]

Slash commands have been updated:

"In Channel" vs "Ephemeral" responses
By default, the responses sent to commands will only be visible to the user that issued the command (we call these "ephemeral" messages). However, if you would like the response to be visible to all members of the channel in which the user typed the command, you can add a response_type of in_channel to the JSON response

(Not that that necessarily makes OP's request any easier)

[technicalpickles]

I actually had an idea: just register a single Hubot slash command, and then pass the arguments. That combined with In Channel should get the desired effect.

Although, then it gets complicated, because does sending a message back from a slash command have parody with using chat.postMessage? Would scripts need to be developed for one or the other? Should hubot commands be able to specify they are ephemeral?

[DEGoodmanWilson]

Slash commands are such different beasts from bots (and Hubot is definitely, in Slack terminology, a bot), that I'm tempted to call this out of scope for this project. Slash commands could be implemented using Express in parallel with the rest of Hubot, and I believe this would be the right way to do this, rather than torturing Hubot to accommodate the very different mechanism.