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3 - 'Stage-Alpha'
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4 summary: 'Allow Slack integrations to work with Prosody MUCs'
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7 Introduction
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8 ============
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10 This module provides a Slack-compatible "web hook" interface to Prosody MUCs.
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11 Both "incoming" web hooks, which allow Slack integrations to post messages
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12 to Prosody MUCs, and "outgoing" web hooks, which copy messages from Prosody
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13 MUCs to Slack-style integrations by HTTP, are supported. This can also be
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14 used, in conjunction with various Slack inter-namespace bridging tools, to
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15 provide a bidirectional bridge between a Prosody-hosted XMPP MUC and a Slack
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16 channel.
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18 Usage
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19 =====
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21 First copy the module to the prosody plugins directory.
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23 Then add "slack\_webhooks" to your modules\_enabled list:
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25 ``` {.lua}
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26 Component "conference.example.org" "muc"
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27 modules_enabled = {
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28 "slack_webhooks",
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29 }
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30 ```
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32 Configuration
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33 =============
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35 The normal use for this module is to provide an incoming webhook to allow
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36 integrations to post to prosody MUCs:
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38 ``` {.lua}
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39 incoming_webhook_path = "/msg/DFSDF56587658765NBDSA"
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40 default_from_nick = "Bot" -- Unless otherwise specified, posts as "Bot"
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41 ```
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43 This allows Slack-style JSON messages posted to http://conference.example.org/msg/DFSDF56587658765NBDSA/chat to appear in the MUC chat@conference.example.org. A username field in the message is honored as the nick attached to the message; if no username is specified, the message will use the value of default_from_nick.
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44 Specifying a string of random gibberish in the URL is important to prevent spam.
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46 In addition, there is a second operating mode equivalent to Slack's outgoing
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47 webhooks. This allows all messages from a set of specified chat rooms to be
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48 routed to an external server over HTTP in the format used by Slack's
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49 outgoing webhooks.
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50 ``` {.lua}
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51 outgoing_webhook_routing = {
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52 -- Send all messages from chat@conference.example.org to
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53 -- a web server.
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54 ["chat"] = "http://example.org/cgi-bin/messagedest",
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55 }
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56 ```
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58 Known Issues
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59 ============
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61 The users from whom messages delivered from integrations are apparently
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62 delivered are not, in general, members of the MUC. Other prosody modules
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63 that try to look up information about the users who most messages, mostly
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64 logging modules, may become confused and fail (clients all work fine because
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65 replayed history also can come from non-present users). In at least some cases,
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66 such as with mod_muc_mam, this can be fixed by hiding the JIDs of the
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67 participants in the room configuration.
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69 There are a few smaller UI issues:
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71 * If an integration posts with the same username as a room member, there is
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72 no indication (like Slack's [bot] suffix) that the message is not from that
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73 room member.
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74 * It is not currently possible to prevent posting to some MUCs (this is
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76 * It should be possible to set the webhook configuration for a room in the
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77 room configuration rather than statically in Prosody's configuration file.
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79 Compatibility
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83 trunk Untested
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84 0.10 Works
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85 0.9 Works
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