SlackBot - PDI Plugin

This job entry allows you to send messages to Slack channels or groups.

Use Cases

This is a useful alternative to providing status update alerts via email for several reasons:

• Slack has smart notification rules, which allows you to respond to urgent messages and get to non-critical issues when you have time
• You can create a group/channel for each job or group the alerts into one group/channel, either way it's easy for you and others to organize your alerts
• Slack is an extensible environment that means you can design custom integrations that trigger other actions based on the content of messages posted to a given room
• You can send messages when frequent jobs complete successfully without worrying about clogging up your inbox

Development

Build

To build (requires Apache Ant and Apache Ivy)

# from the project root
ant resolve  # resolves dependencies
ant -f build/build.xml dist  # compiles project

Install

1. Update the value for kettle-dir in build/build.properties to point to your data-integration folder
2. Run the ant install task (once again from project root)

ant -f build/build.xml install  # compiles project and installs plugin

Testing

1. Create the file build/creds.properties

2. Add a property called ltoken with your slack token

ltoken=<your token here>

3. Use the following command to run functional tests

ant -f build/build.xml test  # run tests

Authors

• Andrew Overton - aoverton at graphiq dot com
• Matt Rybak - mrybak at graphiq dot com