NAME
App::Pocoirc - A command line tool for launching POE::Component::IRC clients
DESCRIPTION
This distribution provides a generic way to launch IRC clients which use POE::Component::IRC. The main features are:
Prints useful status information (to your terminal and/or a log file)
Will daemonize if you so wish
Supports a configuration file
Offers a user friendly way to pass arguments to POE::Component::IRC
Supports multiple IRC components and lets you specify which plugins to load locally (one object per component) or globally (single object)
Has an interactive mode where you can issue issue commands and call methods on the IRC component(s).
It can be used to launch IRC bots or proxies, loaded with plugins of your choice. It is very useful for testing and debugging POE::Component::IRC plugins as well as IRC servers.
CONFIGURATION
nick: foobar1234
username: foobar
log_file: /my/log.file
lib: /my/modules
global_plugins:
- [CTCP]
local_plugins:
- [BotTraffic]
networks:
freenode:
server: irc.freenode.net
local_plugins:
- [AutoJoin, { Channels: ['#foodsfdsf'] } ]
magnet:
server: irc.perl.org
nick: hlagherf32frThe configuration file is in YAML or JSON format. It consists of a hash containing global_plugins, local_plugins, networks, lib, log_file, class, and default parameters to POE::Component::IRC. Only networks is required.
lib is either the name of a directory containing Perl modules (e.g. plugins), or an array of such names. Kind of like Perl's -I.
log_file is the path to a log file to which status messages will be written.
class is the IRC component class. Defaults to POE::Component::IRC::State.
Networks
The networks option should be a hash of network hashes. The keys are the names of the networks. A network hash can contain local_plugins and parameters to POE::Component::IRC. None are required, except server if not defined at the top level. The POE::Component::IRC parameters specified in this hash will override the ones specified at the top level.
Plugins
The global_plugins and local_plugins options should consist of an array containing the short plugin class name (e.g. 'AutoJoin') and optionally a hash of arguments to that plugin. When figuring out the correct package name, App::Pocoirc will first try to load POE::Component::IRC::Plugin::YourPlugin before trying to load YourPlugin.
The plugins in global_plugins will be instantiated once and then added to all IRC components. Note: not all plugins are designed to be used with multiple IRC components simultaneously.
If you specify local_plugins at the top level, it will serve as a default list of local plugins, which can be overridden in a network hash.
OUTPUT
Here is some example output from the program:
$ pocoirc -f example/config.yml
2011-04-18 18:10:52 Started (pid 20105)
2011-04-18 18:10:52 Constructing global plugins
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [freenode] Constructing local plugins
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [freenode] Spawning IRC component (POE::Component::IRC::State)
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [magnet] Constructing local plugins
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [magnet] Spawning IRC component (POE::Component::IRC::State)
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [freenode] Registering plugins
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [magnet] Registering plugins
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [freenode] Connecting to IRC (irc.freenode.net)
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [magnet] Connecting to IRC (irc.perl.org)
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [freenode] Added plugin Whois3
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [freenode] Added plugin ISupport3
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [freenode] Added plugin DCC3
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [magnet] Added plugin Whois5
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [magnet] Added plugin ISupport5
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [magnet] Added plugin DCC5
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [freenode] Added plugin CTCP1
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [freenode] Added plugin AutoJoin1
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [freenode] Added plugin PocoircStatus1
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [magnet] Added plugin CTCP1
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [magnet] Added plugin PocoircStatus1
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [magnet] Connected to server irc.perl.org
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [magnet] Server notice: *** Looking up your hostname...
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [magnet] Server notice: *** Checking Ident
2011-04-18 18:10:52 [freenode] Connected to server irc.freenode.net
2011-04-18 18:10:53 [magnet] Server notice: *** Found your hostname
2011-04-18 18:10:53 [freenode] Server notice: *** Looking up your hostname...
2011-04-18 18:10:53 [freenode] Server notice: *** Checking Ident
2011-04-18 18:10:53 [freenode] Server notice: *** Couldn't look up your hostname
2011-04-18 18:11:03 [magnet] Server notice: *** No Ident response
2011-04-18 18:11:03 [magnet] Logged in to server magnet.shadowcat.co.uk with nick hlagherf32fr
2011-04-18 18:11:07 [freenode] Server notice: *** No Ident response
2011-04-18 18:11:07 [freenode] Logged in to server niven.freenode.net with nick foobar1234
2011-04-18 18:11:11 [freenode] Joined channel #foodsfdsf
^C2011-04-18 18:11:22 Exiting due to SIGINT
2011-04-18 18:11:22 Waiting up to 5 seconds for IRC server(s) to disconnect us
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [magnet] Error from IRC server: Closing Link: 212-30-192-157.static.simnet.is ()
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [magnet] Deleted plugin DCC5
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [magnet] Deleted plugin ISupport5
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [magnet] Deleted plugin CTCP1
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [magnet] Deleted plugin Whois5
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [magnet] Deleted plugin PocoircStatus1
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [magnet] IRC component shut down
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [freenode] Quit from IRC (Client Quit)
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [freenode] Error from IRC server: Closing Link: 212.30.192.157 (Client Quit)
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [freenode] Deleted plugin AutoJoin1
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [freenode] Deleted plugin CTCP1
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [freenode] Deleted plugin DCC3
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [freenode] Deleted plugin PocoircStatus1
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [freenode] Deleted plugin Whois3
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [freenode] Deleted plugin ISupport3
2011-04-18 18:11:22 [freenode] IRC component shut downAUTHOR
Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson, hinrik.sig@gmail.com
LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2010 Hinrik Örn Sigurðsson
This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.