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JABBER-QUERYBOT(1p) | User Contributed Perl Documentation | JABBER-QUERYBOT(1p) |
NAME¶
jabber-querybot - a modular perl jabber bot
DESCRIPTION¶
jabber-querybot connects a jabber account and wait for messages. If a message comes in, it forward it to your self programmend modul. The return string of your module, jabber-querybot send it back to the jabber sender.
It is designed to be re-usable and to make it easy to write small Jabber bots that do one thing and do it well. A simple concept with a lot of examples and experiences are implemented.
1. Create a jabber account on a jabber-server around
2. Create a bot application:
cd examples cp Querymodule.pm /etc/jabber-querybot/Mybot.pm cd /etc/jabber-querybot ln -s Mybot.pm Querymodule.pm
Modify login parameters to your jabber-bot-account
vim Mybot.pm
our $hostname = "swissjabber.ch"; our $user = ""; our $password = ""; our $ident = "Testbot"; our $bot_admin = "\@swissjabber.ch"; our $port = "5222"; our $timeout = "5"; our $service_name = "$user\@$hostname"; our $bot_description = "Bot help title Bot description";
For each jabber message, jabber-querybot will execute sub run_query, that you can write here your application.
You can control how your jabber response will be:
- error = error message stanza
- presence = error as presence stanza
- ignore = ignore message
OPTIONS¶
jabber-querybot has a lot of variables which you can easy modify for what you need:
querystatus¶
$querystatus = [ 0 | 1 ]
- 0 = Bot will not proceed any incoming jabber messages.
- 1 = Bot will proceed incoming messages.
penalty_status¶
If the bot has too much workload, it goes to penalty status and wait some time until his status change back to normal.
$timer_reconnect_default = 21600
Every 21600 seconds (6 hours) the bot will shutdown automatically, wait 10 seconds and starting up again.
$timer_auto_query = 0
If you set in your module this variable to 60, the bot will every 60 seconds call the function run_auto_query() which you may use for several things.
System load¶
If your systems load is >=6, this bot will shutdown the jabber connection and check every 10 seconds systems load. If load <=2, bot will start over.
EXAMPLES¶
/usr/share/doc/jabber-querybot/examples/Testbot.pm
FILES¶
/etc/jabber-querybot/Querymodule.pm
/usr/bin/jabber-querybot
RESOURCES¶
METHODS¶
InMessage()¶
An incoming jabber message to the bot will hook this function.
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- Read parameters of incoming stanza
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- Decode utf8 string
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- increment timer overload and do not process message if bot is overloaded.
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- Ignore message if it is from myself
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- Be sure, that it is not a message from another transport
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- Check any systemcommands for the bot
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- If the bot has sleeping status, change it to work
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- We process only normal text or chat type jabber messages
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- And now we give the real text string which was incoming to the bot via run_query().
- If run_query() say us 'ignore` we do a log entry and do not answer via jabber to the user.
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- If run_query() says 'error` we send a jabber error stanza wiht the status message from run_query() back to the user.
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- If there was no error, we update the statistic vars and send the answer from run_query() back to the jabber user.
connect_server()¶
This function connects to the jabber server with the given credentials from Querymodule.pm.
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Set the call back functions. This functions will be executed if a message of the types <message/> <iq/> or <presence/> are incoming.
Stop()¶
Shutdown jabber connection and exit main program
disconnect_server()¶
Only disconnect from the jabber-server.
reconnect_server()¶
Reconnect and create a log entry.
InIQ()¶
We do not proceed any iq (information query), this is only for statisic.
InPresence()¶
- Increment timer overload
- Do not process message if we are overloaded penalty_handler().
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We have a problem in Net::Jabber. An incoming message with a ` in resource blocks the bot. We will hotfix that for the moment.
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A subscription type `subscribe` is incoming. Send `subscribed` tho the user and say hello ;)
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- Send presence to user
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- Remove subscription if a user remove this bot from his roster
sendPresence()¶
Send presence information to user
systemcommands()¶
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- If user type '!help` send a help instruction to the user
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- Send statistic information to the user if he types '!status`
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- Is it a bot command?
- Is the bot command from the bot admin? If not, send "not allowed"
- '!shutdown` will shutdown your bot via jabber invoke.
- '!query off` turn off queries
- '!query on` turn on queries
get_barejid()¶
Remove resource id from a jabber id.
calcualte_stats()¶
Calculate message statistics
jabber_set_presence()¶
Set new presence if we have another presence status or we have set the force flag (for transport presence).
jabber_send_message()¶
This function send all jabber messages which are outgoing from the jabber-querybot.
set_wakeup_mode()¶
Set jabber presence via jabber_set_presence()
penalty_handler()¶
This function checks if the bot is overloaded with incoming mesages and reject if it is. Two times that's ok so 2:1 because while in main.
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Bot admin got everytime an answer.
jabber_add_footer()¶
Add footer to the processed message.
calcualte_elapsed_time()¶
Calculate elapsed worktime for a query
sendError()¶
sendError($message, $from, $to, 404, "text");
system_load_check()¶
- Calculate system load
- If load is too high shutdown bot.
- If load is ok, starting up bot
connect_bot()¶
Connect bot and initialize all timers.
check_before_start()¶
Check configuration variables in Querybotmodule.pm and give answer if anything does not match or is missing.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶
Copyright (C) 2009-2012 Marco Balmer <marco@balmer.name>
The Debian packaging is licensed under the GPL, see `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3'.
2021-01-09 | perl v5.32.0 |