Hubot Rest Json Adapter

An adapter for Hubot to work via HTTP using Json as data format.

Useful for web chat interfaces.

Setup

Set HUBOT_REST_SEND_URL as an environment variable to send hubot responses to.

Hubot response is sent in json format, with the following structure:

{
  from: 'botname',
  message: 'message body string'
}

Special Options Hash

Typically messages to Hubot have three parameters: Message, User and Room. This adapter allows for an extendable options has to be sent with the message.

To send options, when posting to Hubot use the following hash:

// post: /receive/:room
{
  from: 'nickname string',
  message: 'message body string',
  options: {
    "javascript": "object"
  }
}

The options hash can be accessed in a script with msg.message.user.options.