XL Release Mattermost Plugin

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Preface

This document describes the functionality provided by the xlr-mattermost-plugin. This plugin was forked from the xlr-slack-plugin which seems to be deprecated.

Overview

This plugin provides a notification task to send Mattermost messages to a channel. It's based on Incoming Webhooks integration, which provides a URL within an authorization token ready to POST messages.

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Installation

Copy the plugin JAR file into the SERVER_HOME/plugins directory of XL Release.

Configuration

This configuration allows you to connect to multiple servers or connect to just one. Before using the Mattermost notification task, it's needed to setup a Mattermost server definition within the following information:

• Title: Name of the Mattermost server definition.
• Mattermost URL: Tokenized URL provided by the Incoming WebHook integration.

Available Tasks

The available tasks for interfacing with Mattermost. These tasks utilize the REST API and the provided Authentication Configuration.

Notification task

The Mattermost notification task needs the next information:

• Server: The Mattermost server definition to use.
• Message: The notification message text, it could be formatted.

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References:

• Slack Rest API