anderbot

experimental discord bot

Code Structure

• The core idea is to move all Discord commands to a properties file, and utilizing Spring proxying to automate most of the object instantiation. This aims to reduce the boilerplate code in each of the actual classes for commands.
• The command package has classes for individual commands
• The event package has custom events for parsing "sub-commands" and other arguments
• The listener package contains custom listeners (used for parsing messages that might not start with our prefix)
• The message package has nicely pre-formatted Discord embedded messages
• The util package contains some useful chat and bot utilities

Individual pieces

• The main runner is responsible for authenticating the bot with Discord, registering event listeners, etc
• The command handler is a generic class that parses user input into a command and calls the correct command class to receive it
• The listener handler registers individual event listeners
  • Mostly used for commands that don't necessarily have the > prefix
• An event dispatcher parses any arguments that come after a root command
  • (eg, >dump add x y - the dump command parses the initial dump, which fires off the handler for the add command using a dispatcher)
• The main class for a command is AbstractCommand, which contains the wireframe to be fllowed for parsing events

Roadmap

In no particular order:

• Improve how command statuses are passed
• Centralize all generic message responses
• Somewhere to store magic strings
• Tokens via command line argument instead
• Easy commands: help, dump, roll (+coin flip), 8 ball, fortune telling, Spongebob meme
• Hard commands: bilge dice, othello, stock market, blackjack, other gambling bots, full rpg?
• Stats
• osu! api integration (?)
• Pull audio commands to common interface for autowired dao? Probably over-engineering at that point...

Other Small things

• Dumping on for x amount of messages

Changelog

1.0-SNAPSHOT:

• Initial version!
• Added commands "dump", "help", "roll", "play"