Is there a way to add my own hooks for certain events?

[Taytay]

I'd like to be able to respond to these events with some scripts of my own. From what I can tell, there isn't a way to add my own handler methods, is there?

[parkr]

Not presently, no.

What kind of API would you envision?

[patcon]

Hey @Taytay! (Beat me to it, @parkr :)

Couldn't we emit a github-event-received action with an event type arg and let people set up listeners?

EDIT: Actually @parkr, you're right to ask "what would you like to do?" first..!

[Taytay]

You could indeed! ;) In fact, that's what I'm doing now in my local fork:

      if eventType in eventTypes
        # Emit the event for other scripts to handle
        robot.emit "github-repo-event", {
            data        : data,
            eventType   : eventType
            room : room
        }
        announceRepoEvent data, eventType, (what) ->
          robot.messageRoom room, what

It's been easy to work with so far.

[Taytay]

Oh, and thanks for this project! Good stuff! :)

[niklasR]

@Taytay @parkr - would it be worth opening a PR for the robot.emit?

My use would be to automatically create a new JIRA ticket when an issue is raised, and since hubot already knows about all this, it'd be very handy to make use of it.

[patcon]

Yeah, go for it! but please provide tests so we can merge easily :)