NAME

Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::FromConfig - Create a bot from a config file.

SYNOPSIS

    use Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::FromConfig;

    my $bot = Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::FromConfig->new_with_config(
        config => {name => 'my_bot', path => 'some/path'},
    );

DESCRIPTION

Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::FromConfig is a config loader for Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable allowing all of your Bot configuration to be declared in its own file. It is largely based on Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::WithConfig. It's designed to allow for a wider degree of flexibility with its range of accepted config files.

FromConfig uses Config::JFDI to load a config based on the name supplied to the config argument. This allows pretty much any config style you want and also allows for a '_local' file to override on a per-instance bases if you need.

Running a Bot

This library provides a command line script called run_bot. This provides a complete implementation of this module. Documentation can be found there.

Alternatively you can create your own implementation of this in your own scripts. The simplest method is to call new_with_config() and pass it a config name and then call run on the returned Bot object.

METHODS

new_with_config( config => 'my_bot' )

This is the only method provided in this module beyond those described in Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable. It accepts a hash as its arguments which must contain a config key. This key can either be the name of the config sans extension (which will be passed as the name param to Config::JFDI) or a hashref of params to pass through to Config::JFDI.

A new Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::FromConfig object which inherits from Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable is returned.

Config Keys

All attributes accepted by the constructor of Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable and thus Bot::BasicBot are valid configuration items.

plugins

An arrayref of plugins are also accepted:

    {
        "channels": ["#perl"],
        "plugins": [
            {
                "module": 'Karma',
                "config": {
                    "karma_change_reponse": 0
                },
            },
            {
                "module": "Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::Auth",
            },
    }

Each should provide at minimum the name of the Module that implements the plugin. This can either be the full qualified name (Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::Module::Name) or just the qualifying module name.

A config hashref can also be specified and these items will be passed to the plugin objects set() method.

KNOW ISSUES

There is known issue in Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable when using more recent version of Perl and POD::Checker. This will cause it to fail its t/release-pod-syntax test (https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=89806). Users should --force install B::BB::P before installing this module.

SEE ALSO

Config::JFDI

Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable

LICENSE

Copyright (C) Mike Francis.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR

Mike Francis <ungrim97@gmail.com>

cpanm Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::FromConfig

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Bot::BasicBot::Pluggable::FromConfig