What is A.N.D.R.E.W?

A.N.D.R.E.W (Automated Neural Diagnostics and Reactive Electronics Webservice) is an attempt at making it easier to extend slack functionalities. Mainly for use at our office.

How to create an ANDREW listener?

ANDREW has multiple types of listeners:

• RTM ( Listens to the real time messaging api from slack )
• Command ( Listens for command requests on the [url]/commands/[command] route)

Example rtm listener ( exampleRtm.py )

from rtm import RTMListener

class exampleRtm(RTMListener):
    def onMessage(self, event):
        if(event.data['text'] == "ping"):
            event.sc.rtm_send_message(event.data['channel'],'pong')

It is as easy as extending the rtm listener and overriding the preset methods for each rtm event.

Example command listener ( exampleCommand.py )

from command import CommandListener
from slackclient import *
from pprint import pprint

class exampleCommand(CommandListener):
    def onCommand(self, event):
        commandName = event.data['command']
        if(commandName == "/test"):
            sc = SlackClient(event.workspace.access_token)
            pprint(sc.api_call('api.test'))

On the command listeners is as easy as extending the command listener and overriding the onCommand method and checking wich command you are getting.

You have to register each listener in app.py as shown below

andrew = ANDREW()

# Start of handlers here.

andrew.registerRtmListener(exampleRtm)
andrew.registerCommandListener(exampleCommand)

# End of handlers here.

andrew.bootstrap()