slack

Documentation

Overview

Package slack is a Connection to the Slack Real Time Messaging API (https://api.slack.com/rtm). To use this connection, you will need to create a custom bot user. See https://api.slack.com/bot-users#custom_bot_users.

Once you've created a bot user, you will need to initialize the Slack connection using the API key for this bot user.

slackConnection := NewConnection("MySlackBotAPIKey")

Index

• type Connection
  • func NewConnection(slackAPIKey string) *Connection
  • func (s *Connection) Start(errorChannel chan error) (rx, tx message.BasicChannel)
• type Message

Types

type Connection

type Connection struct {
	Token string
	Inbox map[int]Message
}

Connection provides an interface for storing the Slack API key and the inbox for storing received messages

func NewConnection

func NewConnection(slackAPIKey string) *Connection

NewConnection returns a new Connection to Slack

func (*Connection) Start

func (s *Connection) Start(errorChannel chan error) (rx, tx message.BasicChannel)

Start creates the connection for the Slack RTM and creates the transmit and receive goroutines that listen and send messages through the tx and rx channels

type Message

type Message struct {
	message.Basic
	Type      string `json:"type"`
	Channel   string `json:"channel"`
	User      string `json:"user"`
	Timestamp string `json:"ts"`
}

Message provides the interface for all Slack messages