Can I repeat what a user says when there are multiple "listeners" in one controller?

[LAMike310]

Can I repeat what a user says when there are multiple "listeners" in one controller?

[LAMike310]

I'm trying to write a program that listens for multiple, but similar keywords. I have a separate function that takes in one of these keywords, and spits back some data to Slack.

I could make a separate controller function for each keyword to send that data to a function I made, but it would save me a lot of typing if I could put multiple keywords in a controller function, and then grabbing what the user says inside one function. Does that make sense? Sorry if it sounded like I'm rambling.

Thanks,

Mike

[LAMike310]

controller.hears(['Apple', 'Orange'],['direct_message,direct_mention,mention'],function(bot,message) {
    console.log("You said " + message.text)
});

[benbrown]

You got it.

You can also use normal Javascript string parsing tools like message.text.match() which can extract a keyword from a pattern.

[guillaumepotier]

Hi there,

I think with my PR #39 you'll be able to directly see in message.match what matched in message.text and triggered this listener.

That's what I'm expecting to do with RegExp patterns.

On antoher unrelated note, I'll have to test but it seems that controller.hears(['Apple', 'Orange'], ... is slower than controller.hears(['(Apple|Orange)'], ... that would make less for loops in the lookup code.

Best

[guillaumepotier]

Good news, #39 have been merged, you could now really use message.match object (generally message.match[1] when only one capturing group) inside the response to see what triggered it :)

Best

[benbrown]

Pretty cool!
We should consider cleaning up that object to make it easier to use.

[LAMike310]

Thanks for the tips @benbrown and @guillaumepotier!

[RafaelCosman]

@LAMike310 let us know if you have any other questions about this.

Should we close the issue?