Allow an App to register a "user/bot"

[rodrigok]

@graywolf336 commented on Thu Jan 11 2018

Allow the Rocket.Chat Apps to register a user, aka a bot, that will then populate the auto-completes when you go to tag a user. This will allow applications to "impersonate" a user and "converse" with them.

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@mrsimpson commented on Thu Jan 11 2018

I believe that this property (reading messages and impersonating a response) could turn RocketChat into a bot platform and give a spin at the Rocket.Chat Apps even with the limited (text-only) scope. Feature-wise, it’s not much more compared to a slash-command (a textual interface), but it would allow bot developers to even capture a conversational state inside or outside of Rocket.Chat

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@timkinnane commented on Thu Jan 11 2018

@mrsimpson Most of what you're talking about is how the platform already works to support Hubot for instance. Via the hubot-rocketchat adapter, which uses Asteroid to log in and set up channel subscriptions and send/receive.

@graywolf336 +1 on this. But I'll also flag that it ties into something I'd like to do for general bot support and testing. I think the creation process could be streamlined for bots, such as core issue 3818 and other mods to register bots programatically more simply than users.

For both bot and app testing, I'm thinking about a feature that would support creation of temporary users in private channels. So that neither the channel or users are visible to the community and they can be easily wiped away. I know this is overloading this particular ticket, just giving some context before anyone jumps to a solution.

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@mrsimpson commented on Wed Jan 17 2018

@graywolf336 funny enough, guggy itself has pictured it like that
http://s3.amazonaws.com/guggyresources/guggyexample.gif

[d-gubert]

@rodrigok Do you think the current flow of giving apps an "app user" when they're installed solves this discussion here?

Do you think this is still interesting for the project?

[rodrigok]

I don't think so