dev, I am starting to work on NIFI-329 and plan to soon introduce processors capable of interacting with IRC servers.
At this stage I am looking to implement only PublishIRC, however, given the processor will use a controller service this may be later on expanded to handle IRC message consumption (i.e. ConsumeIRC) and perhaps bot type functionality by mimicking the ethos of HandleHttpRequest and HandleHttpResponse processors. Since this is the first time I am trying to write a controller service may I ask you some feedback about my first reading? Currently the "best" ASL2 IRC library seems to be KICL (Kitteh IRC Client library[1]) which happens to support IRCv3, SSL and a bunch of other stuff. KICL Client class seems to fit very well within a controller service onEnabled, but I have the impression its event driven API is not a natural fit to NiFi processors and will require some work similar to the one required to get ListenSMTP working properly. Is this reading correct? In you experience, is it manageable or should I look for another library? Any feedback will be appreciated. [1] - http://kicl.kitteh.org/en/latest/#kitteh-irc-client-library-documentation
