Hi thanks for the suggestions. Sorry for not responding sooner. I figured a way of working and been working abroad for a few days...) so I haven't tried your suggestions.
What worked for me was I wrote a service that returned the contents of a table that define the bot commands and called it using requests in Python. The response contains the data as json. Then I connect to my Slack room and listen for commands that invoke my bot. the bot responds according to the commands received and looked-up responses read from the DB. I suspect using the DAL directly could have achieved the same goal and also retain the DB connection to store stuff too if required - but right now I don't need to do that. Happy to share my code if you have a similar need to drive a Slack bot. On 2 March 2016 at 20:42, Ian Ryder <[email protected]> wrote: > Sounds like you just need some sort of never ending loop (obviously you > can put checks in the loop for stop requests and whatever other complexity > you like / need). > > You can pass arguments on the python command line. So for example you > could do something like: > > python web2py.py -S your_app -M -A 1 run_my_loop > > In the example, 1 is the user record to use and then: > > if sys.argv[2] == 'run_my_loop': > this_user = db_auth.auth_user[sys.argv[1]] > > > if not this_user: > raise Exception('...') > auth.login_bare(this_user.email, this_user.password) > run_my_loop() > > > > On Monday, 29 February 2016 10:36:23 UTC+1, Paul Gerrard wrote: >> >> I have written some Python code to act as a chatbot working with Slack. >> All looks good so far. I could add it as a service to /etc/init.d etc and >> make it work at startup. However... >> >> I want to enhance the service to access my MySQL database using the >> Web2py DAL. Now, I created a webservice to do this - but of course when run >> the Apache server eventually times out and I get a 500 error. Is there a >> simple way of creating a permanently running service that can access >> models, the DAL etc? >> >> Now, in the web2py directory, I guess I could run: >> >> python -M -S myapp/controller/function >> >> But I need to add credentials to the command too? How do I do this? >> >> Assuming there's a way to provide credentials through the shell, would a >> permanently running service created this way cause any other issues? >> >> thanks, Paul. >> > -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/web2py/XEbLuixLJUY/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
