Talk:Notifier.pl

Template:Project We need utility which runs as a daemon and uses a set of rules specifying information sources to be checked on a schedule. It will be a Perl daemon based on the wikid.pl code.

Rules

The rules are defined as a list of items and can reside in a location available from any of the protocols it's set up to read from.

Rule Items

• Schedule: pattern to be applied to localtime
• Source: FS, URL, POP
• Extraction pattern: Extracts the information from the received content
• Message: containing $n args
• Target: FS, Wiki, POP, IRC

Example Usage

• SVN changes sent to chat room
• Changes to files appended to a log file
• Changed files syncronised to wiki article
• Changed articles written to files
• Price of a product changing shows up in wiki changes

Development Notes

A standard method of specifying resources needs to be adopted and a function made which accepts these resource descriptions and then interfaces with the necessary code such as wiki.pl and the new irc.pl.