Custom auto-linking?

JAKE1138 · October 7, 2019, 5:35pm

I’d like to create custom auto-linking in Rocket Chat. I was not able to find an app for it. In Bugzilla, it auto-links something like “bug 1111” to that bug’s page. I’d like to do the same thing in Rocket Chat so a person can just click on it to go to the bug page. We are able to do this in TWiki by specifying “Bug:1111” (using their InterWikis plugin). I’d like something similar in Rocket Chat. If something like this doesn’t yet exist, any quick pointers on how to get started on writing my own app to do this would be appreciated. I assume it would need to look through a message on “pre-post” and rewrite it with the proper link. I’m not yet familiar with how to do that though.

aaron.ogle · October 9, 2019, 3:29am

This might be a good one to take a look at

bradley.hilton · December 3, 2019, 7:03pm

I realized I am extremely late on this, but I have some example code of doing this with github links:

github.com

graywolf336/RocketChatApps/blob/master/github/Github.ts

import { IHttp, ILogger, IMessageBuilder, IPersistence, IRead } from '@rocket.chat/apps-ts-definition/accessors';
import { App } from '@rocket.chat/apps-ts-definition/App';
import { IMessage, IPreMessageSentModify } from '@rocket.chat/apps-ts-definition/messages';
import { IAppInfo } from '@rocket.chat/apps-ts-definition/metadata/IAppInfo';

export class GithubApp extends App implements IPreMessageSentModify {
    private matcher: RegExp = /([a-zA-Z|_|\-|0-9]+)\/([a-zA-Z|_|\-|.|0-9]+)#(\d+)/g;

    constructor(info: IAppInfo, logger: ILogger) {
        super(info, logger);
    }

    // tslint:disable-next-line:max-line-length
    public async checkPreMessageSentModify(message: IMessage, read: IRead, http: IHttp): Promise<boolean> {
        if (typeof message.text !== 'string') {
            return false;
        }

        const result = message.text.match(this.matcher);

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xmedeko · March 20, 2020, 7:05am

You can use Issue tracker build in feature: Administration -> Messages -> Issue tracker links. Then type into a mesage #123 and it will be translated into the link you have configured. (Hint. if you start the message type at least one space before #123).
However, it’s not universal. I have already posted FR https://github.com/RocketChat/feature-requests/issues/301
I think an app with regexp config could do a job.

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