NAME

Colloquy::Bot::Simple - Simple robot interface for Colloquy

SYNOPSIS

 use Colloquy::Bot::Simple qw(daemonize);
  
 # Create a connection
 my $talker = Colloquy::Bot::Simple->new(
          host => '127.0.0.1',
          port => 1236,
          username => 'MyBot',
          password => 'topsecret',
     );
 
 # Daemonize in to the background
 daemonize("/tmp/MyBot.pid","quiet");
 
 # Execute callback on speech and "alarm" every 60 seconds
 $talker->listenLoop(\&event_callback, 60);

 # Tidy up and finish
 $talker->quit();
 exit;
 
 sub event_callback {
     my $talker = shift;
     my $event = @_ % 2 ? { alarm => 1 } : { @_ };
 
     if (exists $event->{alarm}) {
         print "Callback called as ALARM interrupt handler\n";
         # ... go check an RSS feed for new news items to inform
         #     your users about or something else nice maybe ...?
 
     } elsif (lc($event->{command}) eq 'hello') {
         $talker->whisper(
                 (exists $event->{list} ? $event->{list} : $event->{person}),
                 "Hi there $event->{person}"
             );
 
     } elsif ($event->{msgtype} eq 'TELL') {
         $talker->whisper($event->{person}, 'Pardon?');
     }
 
     # Return boolean false to continue the listenLoop
     return 0;
 }

DESCRIPTION

A very simple robot interface to connect and interact with a Colloquy talker, based upon Chatbot::TalkerBot.

METHODS

new

daemonize

listenLoop

say

whisper

quit

TODO

Write some decent POD.

SEE ALSO

Chatbot::TalkerBot

VERSION

$Id: Simple.pm,v 1.6 2006/02/01 23:12:28 nicolaw Exp $

AUTHOR

Nicola Worthington <nicolaw@cpan.org>

http://perlgirl.org.uk

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2006 Nicola Worthington.

This software is licensed under The Apache Software License, Version 2.0.

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0