Send response in HTML markup

[dieterdemeyer]

Hello,
is it possible to send a reply with the bot which is HTML markup ?
I would like to send messages to the HipChat room with html markup language in certain plugins, and I can do that using the HipChat API.
Is there some way to make an extension for this ?

Thanks.

[jimmycuadra]

The HipChat adapter connects via XMPP rather than using the API, so it doesn't have direct support for rich messages. However, there's nothing to prevent you from making HipChat-specific plugins that make API calls when chat routes are triggered, rather than replying to the message with Lita's API.

There's been some discussion around this at litaio/lita-hipchat#7 that you might like to participate in as well.

[dieterdemeyer]

Would writing a Lita extension help for this issue ?
I'm trying it out as we speak but I can't get the actual response.reply that would normally be assembled and returned in a route command to be passed to the extension.
Am I in the right direction ?
I'm using the trigger_route hook for the extension and in my plugin that would send a message with the API, the route looks like:

route(/^do something$/, command: true, use_hipchat_api: true) do |response|
  response.reply "answer" # this answer should be sent through the API, not the standard XMPP...
end

[jimmycuadra]

Depends how it's implemented, but I'm not sure that hook would help you in this case, really. You might want to approach this by writing a separate HipChat adapter that uses the HTTP API instead of XMPP.

[jimmycuadra]

I'm gonna close this in favor of #66, which is a proposal for a more generic mechanism for handling rich messages. It's been brought up a few times before, so hopefully this can be a workable solution.