Running botserver for local development

[arthurpankiewicz]

I'm trying to setup an environment where I'm able to run a bot locally for either

• zulip development(vagrant)
• zulip produciton

My current workaround was pulling the zulip python-zulip-api, placing my bot in there, and using either the zulip-run-bot <bot> command or interacting via the zulip-terminal

I'd like to manage my bot separately in my git, without the need for all the extra bots/files found in python-zulip-api

Following the instrucitons here I've installed the zulip-botserver package, and my current project directory looks like:

zulip-mybot
  - readme.md
  - zulip_bots
    - bots
       - mybot

I have a production version of zulip running with an organization where I created a bot and downloaded it's zuliprc

When I run (from within zulip-mybot directory):

zulip-botserver --config-file /path/to/zuliprc

I receive the error: "Error: Bot "mybot" doesn't exist. Please make sure you have set up the botserverrc file correctly."

My zuliprc file looks like:

[mybot]
email=mybot-bot@ORGNAME.zulipchat.com
key=KEY
site=https://ORGNAME.zulipchat.com
token=TOKEN

I'm not even sure if this is the correct way to run for local dev/testing, but the goal is to not have to develop within the python-zulip-api and copy and paste working code to my git directory.

Thanks!

[zulipbot]

Hello @zulip/server-bots members, this issue was labeled with the "area: bots" label, so you may want to check it out!

[timabbott]

@arthurpankiewicz thanks for the report!

I suspect that the botserver code is just missing the nice logic for detecting the paths to out-of-tree bots that we use in e.g. zulip-run-bot.

[thedeveloperr]

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[arthurpankiewicz]

@timabbott yeah I was getting some funky behaviour.

I edited the server.py to log the error, and it was trying to import a bot module at zulip_bots.zulip_bots.bot._______ and was failing, but if I went into my py3 console and ran the same import, it seemed to work.

If you require more information @thedeveloperr I can rerun my steps and provide some more context

[arthurpankiewicz]

@thedeveloperr any status update on this?

[thedeveloperr]

@arthurpankiewicz I am sorry I am still reading the docs and code of this, this my first issue regarding this area and was also working on few other ongoing issues. So progress is a bit slow. I will try to fix this soon.

If you require more information @thedeveloperr I can rerun my steps and provide some more context

Sorry I missed notification of your previous message. I would like to have as much information regarding the issue as possible if you don't mind re-running. 😅

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[arthurpankiewicz]

@thedeveloperr sorry I just returned from vacation, I can update with some extra info this weekend

[thedeveloperr]

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