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Slack event subscriptions for Flask and Asyncio
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Flask Slack Events

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Slack event subscriptions <https://api.slack.com/events-api#subscriptions>_ for Flask <http://flask.pocoo.org>_

Installation

Install last stable version from Pypi::

pip install flask-slack-events

Create a Slack bot user

See the Slack's documentation <https://api.slack.com/bot-users#getting-started>_ for further guidance on creating your bot (step 1).

Within the Basic Information about your application, copy the Signing Secret necessary to verify requests from Slack <https://api.slack.com/docs/verifying-requests-from-slack>_.

.. image:: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5514990/53696736-cfde0e00-3dfc-11e9-9aeb-23d184f8c600.png :alt: Signing Secret

Configure your Application

You should create a SlackManager object within your application:

.. code-block:: python

slack_manager = SlackManager()

Configure your application object <http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/1.0/config/#configuration-basics>_ updating the SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET key with the value obtained in the previous step 1:

.. code-block:: python

app.config['SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET'] = '<your Signing Secret>'

Once the actual application object has been created, you can configure it for SlackManager object with::

slack_manager.init_app(app)

Configure your Slack Bot

Continue with the Slacks's documentation <https://api.slack.com/bot-users#setup-events-api>_ to setting up the Events API (step 2) and enter the URL to receive the subscriptions joining your host and the relative path /slack/events:

.. image:: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/5514990/53696747-e5533800-3dfc-11e9-8cef-4fd13d06e6ef.png :alt: Enable Event

Finally, install your bot to a workspace (step 3).

How it Works

Now in order to subscribe to Slack Events <https://api.slack.com/events>_, use the SlackManager.on decorator:

.. code-block:: python

# Reply to only the message events that mention your bot

@slack_manager.on('app_mention')
def reply_to_app_mention(sender, data, **extra):
    event = data['event']
    channel = event['channel']
    text = f":robot_face: Hello <@{event['user']}>!"

    slack_client.api_call('chat.postMessage', channel=channel, text=text)

Context Processors

To inject new variables automatically into the context of a handler, context processors exist in Flask-Slack-Events.

A context processor is a function that returns a dictionary:

.. code-block:: python

@slack_manager.context_processor
def context_processor(data):
    return dict(my_bot_id='UAZ02BCBH')

The injected variables will be sent as an extra argument for each event handler f(sender, data, **extra).

Dispatch Events Asynchronously

Some event handlers can delay the execution of another, to avoid this you can configure the event dispatcher and run handlers asynchronously:

.. code-block:: python

import asyncio


@slack_manager.dispatch_event_handler
def async_event_dispatcher(sender, data, handlers, **extra):
    coroutines = [h(sender, data, **extra) for h in handlers]
    asyncio.run(asyncio.wait(coroutines))

And design your event handlers as coroutines:

.. code-block:: python

@slack_manager.on('app_mention')
async def reply_to_app_mention(sender, data, **extra):
    # ...

Subscribe to Signals

The following signals are sended internally by Flask-Slack-Events:

signals.request_unauthorized


    Sent when the request received is unauthorized

    Receiver: ``f(sender, **extra)``

signals.expired_event
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Sent when the event has expired according to the value of ``SLACK_EVENT_EXPIRATION_DELTA`` and the HTTP header ``X-Slack-Request-Timestamp`` received

    Receiver: ``f(sender, **extra)``

signals.invalid_signature
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Sent when the signature included within the HTTP header ``X-Slack-Signature`` is invalid

    Receiver: ``f(sender, **extra)``


signals.event_received
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Sent when an event has been received

    Receiver: ``f(sender, data, **extra)``


SlackManager Handlers
---------------------

The following handlers are used internally by *Flask-Slack-Events*:

SlackManager.unauthorized_handler
Called to handle an unauthorized request

Handler: ``f()``

Default: ``SlackManager.unauthorized()``

SlackManager.expired_event_handler


    Called to handle an expired event

    Handler: ``f()``

    Default: ``SlackManager.expired_event()``

SlackManager.invalid_signature_handler
Called to handle a request with an invalid signature

Handler: ``f()``

Default: ``SlackManager.invalid_signature()``

SlackManager.dispatch_event_handler


    Called to dispatch the event to all handlers connected with ``SlackManager.on(event_type)`` decorator

    Handler: ``f(sender, data, handlers, **extra)``

    Default: ``SlackManager.dispatch_event(data)``


Configuration
-------------

The following configuration values are used internally by *Flask-Slack-Events*:

SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Signing Secret to verify whether requests from *Slack* are authentic

    Default: ``''``

SLACK_EVENTS_URL
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    URL rule that is used to register the *Subscription View*

    Default: ``/slack/events``

SLACK_EVENT_EXPIRATION_DELTA
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Timedelta added to ``time.time()`` to set the expiration time of each event
    If the value is ``None`` then the event never expires

    Default: ``timedelta(seconds=60 * 5)`` (5 minutes)


Marvin the Paranoid Android
---------------------------

`Marvin <https://github.com/longstem/marvin>`_ is a **Slack Bot layout** for *Flask* and *Asyncio* to develop `Slack Event <https://api.slack.com/events>`_ handlers and deploy on *AWS Lambda* + *API Gateway*


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