Setting HUBOT_TEAM_PATH doesn't seem to do anything

[evansagge]

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[jasonm]

Hi @evansagge are you using Slack? I am seeing similar behavior. I'd like to map github mentions of @jasonm to Slack mentions of @jason:

$ heroku config:get HUBOT_TEAM_PATH
hubot-github-comment-notifier-team-config.json

$ cat hubot-github-comment-notifier-team-config.json
{
  "@jasonm": "<@jason>"
}

Here are the hubot logs from adding a new comment:

2016-03-24T19:07:03.769885+00:00 app[web.1]: [Thu Mar 24 2016 19:07:03 GMT+0000 (UTC)] DEBUG Sending to #schools-cr: [minervaproject/schools] New comment on pull request: #1496 Document Multi CDN by jasonm
2016-03-24T19:07:03.769897+00:00 app[web.1]: https://github.com/minervaproject/schools/pull/1496#issuecomment-200974233
2016-03-24T19:07:03.769898+00:00 app[web.1]: @jasonm more fun commenting tests
2016-03-24T19:07:03.769899+00:00 app[web.1]: Mentions: @jasonm
2016-03-24T19:07:03.769900+00:00 app[web.1]:

But the @-mention doesn't appear to be mapping correctly (I'd like it to mention @jason not @jasonm):

I've also tried with a config JSON without the angle brackets - e.g. { "@jasonm": "@jason" } but that doesn't seem to help.

We're using the latest version of hubot-slack, 3.4.2:

$ npm list hubot-slack
[email protected] /Users/jason/dev/minerva-hubot
└── [email protected]

which should include slackapi/hubot-slack#193 which enabled @-mentions (Slack apparently requires @-mentions to provide an internal user ID).

Did you end up finding a solution for this?

If not, @yujiosaka any thoughts on what I might do to troubleshoot further?

Thanks!

[jasonm]

Ah, I think I've figured out my issue. Since the configuration file is required from node_modules/hubot-github-comment-notifier/lib/index.coffee, I have to set a relative path that points up to the root directory where my configuration file is:

$ heroku run bash
Running bash on minerva-hubot... up, run.2749
~ $ grep "require.*process" node_modules/hubot-github-comment-notifier/lib/index.coffee
team = try require process.env.HUBOT_TEAM_PATH
~ $ echo $HUBOT_TEAM_PATH
../../../hubot-github-comment-notifier-team-config.json
~ $ ls hubot-github-comment-notifier-team-config.json
hubot-github-comment-notifier-team-config.json
~ $ pwd
/app
~ $ exit

Now my mentions map correctly!
I don't know if this is idiomatic or not. My process.env.NODE_PATH is undefined. I guess you could also specify an absolute path, which would not work across local and production environments. Alternatively, if hubot-github-comment-notifier recommends putting this configuration file in your hubot repo root, would it be reasonable to change the require statement in lib/index.coffee to:

team = try require path.join(process.env.PWD, process.env.HUBOT_TEAM_PATH)

?