Talk:Notifier.pl

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Revision as of 01:41, 20 June 2008 by Nad (talk | contribs)

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