# See readme.md for instructions on running this code. class FollowupHandler(object): ''' This plugin facilitates creating follow-up tasks when you are using Zulip to conduct a virtual meeting. It looks for messages starting with '@followup'. In this example, we write follow up items to a special Zulip stream called "followup," but this code could be adapted to write follow up items to some kind of external issue tracker as well. ''' def usage(self): return ''' This plugin will allow users to flag messages as being follow-up items. Users should preface messages with "@followup". Before running this, make sure to create a stream called "followup" that your API user can send to. ''' def triage_message(self, message): # return True iff we want to (possibly) response to this message original_content = message['content'] # This next line of code is defensive, as we # never want to get into an infinite loop of posting follow # ups for own follow ups! if message['display_recipient'] == 'followup': return False is_follow_up = (original_content.startswith('@followup') or original_content.startswith('@follow-up')) return is_follow_up def handle_message(self, message, client): original_content = message['content'] original_sender = message['sender_email'] new_content = original_content.replace('@followup', 'from %s:' % (original_sender,)) client.send_message(dict( type='stream', to='followup', subject=message['sender_email'], content=new_content, )) handler_class = FollowupHandler