saolsen/floclo

Floclo watches a flowdock chat room and evaluates clojure expressions tagged with #clj

floclo

A bot that watches a flowdock chat room and evaluates clojure expressions.

Usage

Set env vars for flowdock authentication.

FLOWDOCK_USERNAME and FLOWDOCK_PASSWORD

You must also have a ~/.java.policy file in your home directory. eg

grant {
  permission java.security.AllPermission;
};

Start it by passing the flowdock org name, room name, and a plugin config file.

lein run orgname roomname plugins.clj

Example plugins.clj

{:main         ; room
 {:clj clojure ; messags tagged #clj will invoke floclo.plugins.clojure/clojure
  :echo echo}} ; messagestagged #echo will invoke floclo.plugins.echo/echo

Evaluate any clojure expression (well, any safe expression) by tagging it #clj

(+ 1 2 3) #clj

=> 6

Set the FLOWDOCK_TAG environment variable to change the tag it's listening for.

License

Copyright © 2013 Stephen Olsen

Distributed under the Eclipse Public License either version 1.0 or (at your option) any later version.

floclo's Issues

Implement a thumbcoin plugin

Tag literals for Flowdock commands

Have tag literals for all the Flowdock commands.

/help - Display this help.
/status [message] OR /away [message] - Send status message or clear status if no message is given.
/me message - Send an action message that does not change your status.
/query Nick - Start a 1-to-1 with user Nick
/slap Nick - Slap Nick with a fish.
/hangout - Start a new Google Hangout with your Flow.
/ /query - Send a normal message that starts with /query

So like: #status (str "b" "r" "b") would set the bot's status to say brb.

Host somewhere that isn't my computer

Probably easiest to throw on heroku free tier, just have to see what can be done about needing a .java.policy file.

HTTP errors reveal passwords

Probably need to limit what is put in the message when an exception occurs.

Libraries!

core.logic
core.async (maybe? that could be bad leaving background threads open and such)

Design a plugin system

Remote and PTO tracking via floclo 1to1 messages

And then certain users could query it perhaps? Like admins, I dunno

Have floclo respond in a thread

Either start a new thread if the message wasn't currently threaded, or stay within the thread.

Have floclo reply in the same thread as the original message.

floclo breaks when defing lazy sequences

There is no error message or anything and just running sandbox-eval on the same statement works fine but something like this breaks floclo.

(def x (repeat 1)) #clj

have floclo put return values in a codeblock

Floclo lunch feature.

1. tell floclo you're hungry.
2. floclo hosts and posts an image to the thread.
3. Based on everyone's geoip which is collected as their flowdock clients render the image it makes a list of the people in the current location.
4. floclo posts a message saying it's lunch time that directly @Pings those people.

Plugin: allow me to inject a CLJSFiddle into an iFrame into Flowdock

Write a floclo plugin that lets me embed a CLJSFiddle into a Flowdock thread via an iFrame. Ideally it would just detect a url like http://cljsfiddle.net/view/DarrenN.async.delta or we could do something like add a custom tag or:

(cljs "http://cljsfiddle.net/view/DarrenN.async.delta") #clj

Intercept emoticons and gensym them

so you can do this:

(let [:thumbsup: 1] (inc :thumbsup:))

Create a clojure environment per flowdock thread where vars can be created and used.

Add marksy support to floclo

Bring markerbot back to life.

Don't evaluate messages posted by floclo

Stops infinite loops from being possible.

Hook up to CI somewhere

cuz pushin is boring, circleci free plan might work.

Allow floclo to set its status

Implement CoffeeScript/JavaScript plugin

User state (i.e. karma)

Have a map keyed on a user's name. This map could contain state for karma or anything else.