OpenChatOps: Programming Language Agnostic ChatOps

Today the community and plugin ecosystems for the major chat bot frameworks are somewhat divided by language. This presentation explores a possible approach for bringing them together with a common API and communications protocol.

Recording: https://www.youtu.be/watch?v=-UL_7IjyOdU

Transcript

1. OPENCHATOPS Programming language agnostic ChatOps @jimmycuadra
2. WARNING
3. THIS IS ALL VAPORWARE
4. SOME BACKGROUND
10. IRC
11. IRC
14. BUT HOW?
15. ADAPTER | ROBOT / \ PLUGIN PLUGIN
16. ROBOT ADAPTER PLUGIN PLUGIN
17. ROBOT PLUGIN
18. ROBOT PLUGIN NETWORK
19. ROBOT PLUGIN RPC NETWORK
20. Remote Procedure Call
21. REST (Representational State Transfer)
22. RPC REST GET /posts/1 HTTP/1.1 Host: www.example.com getPost(1) 01101001
23. • CORBA • JSON-RPC • SOAP • XML-RPC • Thrift • DRb • WCF • Protocol Buffers • Avro • Transit • D-Bus • AMF • Finagle • Cap’n Proto • ASN.1 • FlatBuffers • EDN • Fressian
24. THE DETAILS
25. gRPC
26. Protocol Buffers v3
28. syntax = "proto3"; package helloworld; // The greeter service definition. service Greeter { // Sends a greeting rpc SayHello (HelloRequest) returns (HelloReply) {} } // The request message containing the user's name. message HelloRequest { string name = 1; } // The response message containing the greetings message HelloReply { string message = 1; }
29. class GreeterServer < Helloworld::Greeter::Service def sayhello(helloreq) Helloworld::HelloReply.new( message: "Hello #{hello_req.name}” ) end end Server (Ruby)
30. def main s = GRPC::RpcServer.new s.add_http2_port('0.0.0.0:50051') s.handle(GreeterServer) s.run end
31. var client = new hello_proto.Greeter(‘localhost:50051'); client.sayHello({name: user}, function(err, response) { console.log('Greeting:', response.message); }); Client (JavaScript)
32. // The RPC service that controls the chat bot. service Robot { // Instructs the bot to join a room. rpc Join (JoinRequest) returns (JoinResponse); // Listens to a stream of incoming events. rpc Listen (ListenRequest) returns (stream Event); // Instructs the bot to part from a room. rpc Part (PartRequest) returns (PartResponse); // Sends one or more messages to a user or room. rpc SendMessages (SendMessagesRequest) returns (SendMessagesResponse); }
33. TRADE OFFS
35. ADAPTER | ROBOT / \ PLUGIN PLUGIN
36. ROBOT ADAPTER PLUGIN PLUGIN
37. https://github.com/openchatops
38. THANK YOU @jimmycuadra
39. QUESTIONS? @jimmycuadra