Py-Synapse

A simple Python wrapper for hubot-synapse using redis-py.

Getting started

# main.py

from synapse import Neuron
import redis

# Connect to Redis
conn = redis.StrictRedis(host='localhost', port=6379, db=0)

# Just pass in the name of your Hubot and a Redis connection
neuron = Neuron("hubot", conn)

# Create a listener function
def echo_listener(neuron, msg):
    neuron.send("speak", msg)

# Register your listener with your neuron
listener_thread = neuron.listen("respond", echo_listener)

The function which you pass to listen() is executed in a separate thread which is then returned to the caller. The Thread is already started, so it is up to you to call Thread.stop() later. Unfortunately, the threads are not currently daemonized due to a shortcoming in redis-py. You can go +1 the pull request at redis/redis-py#640

You can find out more about the different channels that Synapse communicates on in the hubot-synapse README.