[CONNECTORS-1344] Slack Notification Connector

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: ManifoldCF 2.5
• Fix Version/s: ManifoldCF 2.6
• Component/s: Slack notification connector
• Assignee: Karl Wright
• Reporter: Markus Schuch
• Created: 20/Nov/16 10:28
• Updated: 19/Oct/17 21:55
• Resolved: 27/Nov/16 20:32

Description

Since CONNECTORS-1119 ManifoldCF has the ability to send notifications on certain job statuses. Notification endpoints are realized by INotificationConnector implementors.

It would be awesome to have a notification connector for Slack channel.

Slack has a HTTP API (https://api.slack.com/web) and there are a lot of java examples showing how to pull this off: https://api.slack.com/community#java
The simplest way for an integration are Slack incoming webhooks

Sample Request

POST https://hooks.slack.com/services/T00000000/B00000000/XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Content-type: application/json
{
    "text": "This is a line of text.\nAnd this is another one."
}

We plan to contribute this connector on November 24th 2016 in the context of a Open Source Hackathon at DB Systel GmbH
See https://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg11050.html

Design

• new connector module connectors/slack (similar to connectors/email)
• SlackConnector extending org.apache.manifoldcf.crawler.notifications.BaseNotificationConnector
• using Apache HTTP Client (is already a dependency in ManifoldCF) for HTTP Post
• gson jackson for creating the json request entity
• support markdown messages

Issue Links

• is related to: CONNECTORS-1468 Rocket.Chat Notification Connector