This is a RocketChat bot library using an app bridge to create bots with interactive elements such as buttons.

☝ Important

In addition to this description, be sure to see an example of a bot on how to send and build data to send

Usage

• First, you need to install this application on your rocket chat server.
• Then go to the admin settings -> applications -> BotBridge -> and copy the POST webhook address
• In the Controlled bots settings field, enter the nickname of the bot user you want to use. Or leave it blank if you want to use the standard @bbot.bot account automatically created for the application
• install package with pip install rocketchat-bot-simple-app-bot and import this in your project

  from rocketchat_bot_app_bridge.RCBot import RCBot
  from rocketchat_bot_app_bridge.definitions.application import IButton
  from rocketchat_bot_app_bridge.definitions.message import IMessage
  from rocketchat_bot_app_bridge.definitions.user import IUser
  

• Now you can create a bot instance.
  bot = RCBot() If you want to use a custom bot account, then after adding it in the application settings, pass its username like this
  bot = RCBot(account_username='testbot')
• Since communication is carried out in both directions between the RocketChat application and this bot server. Here a web server will be configured on the default port 3228
  You can specify your port in the environment variable
  export BOT_PORT=12345 Also you can pass the port when creating the bot RCBot (port=12345) [[[подробнее в файле примаера добавитьссылку]]]
• Also, the link you copied to the POST webhook must be passed to the APP_ENDPOINT environment variable

  export APP_ENDPOINT=http://rocket.chat/api/apps/private/2c3927404e41/sab7/webhook
  

  Or when created in the same way as the port. more details here.
• Now there are several decorators available to you that you can use on your functions.

  @bot.on_new_message
  def new_message(message: IMessage = None):
      pass
  
  @bot.on_button_click(action='btn1-action')
  def click_button(action, user: IUser = None, source_message: IMessage = None):
      pass
  
  @bot.on_button_click(startswith='btn-danger-')
  def click_button(action, user: IUser = None, source_message: IMessage = None):
      pass
  
  @bot.hear(pattern=r"Why (?P<phrase>.*)\??")
  def answer_the_question(message: IMessage, phrase):
      pass

• Finally, you need to start the server and wait loop.

  bot.run()
  
  while True:
      time.sleep(300)

  P.S. Eliminate the need for loop in my todo for easier work
• After launching, there will be a line in the log saying that the server is running.

  | INFO     | run:57 - Listen on **http://0.0.0.0:3228/** copy this(or service ip for kubernetes) to RocketChat app settings
  

You need to specify the address of the server on which the bot is running in the rocket chat settings as a backend address.
Instead of 0.0.0.0, there should be one of your server addresses, which will be available for rocket chat. Eg. Service name in docker-compose or kubernetes