pbot/doc/Registry.md

Registry

• About
  • Types of values
  • Creating array values
  • Overriding Registry values per-channel
• Overriding Registry values via command-line
• Registry commands
  • regset
  • regunset
  • regchange
  • regshow
  • regfind
  • regsetmeta
  • regunsetmeta
• Editing Registry file
• Metadata list
• List of known Registry items
  • Channel-specific Registry items

About

PBot’s behavior can be customized via a central registry of key/value pairs segregated by sections.

These are represented as <section>.<key>. For example, irc.port is set to 6667 by default.

Types of values

There are two types of registry values: literals and arrays. Literals can be strings, floats or integers. Arrays are comma-separated lists of literals.

Creating array values

Use the regsetmeta command to change the type metadata key to array, and set the registry value to a comma-separated list of values.

For example, we’ll create a fictional Registry key animals in fictional section foo and then set its type to array.

<pragma-> !regset foo.animals aardvark,badger,cat,dingo
   <PBot> foo.animals set to aardvark,badger,cat,dingo

<pragma-> !regsetmeta foo.animals type array
   <PBot> foo.animals: 'type' set to 'array'

Overriding Registry values per-channel

Some Registry items belonging to a specific section may be overridden on a per-channel basis by setting the item in a channel-specific section.

For example, the bot’s trigger is defined in general.trigger. You may set a trigger registry item in section #channel to override the value for that channel: #channel.trigger.

Overriding Registry values via command-line

You may override the Registry values via the PBot start-up command-line. These overrides are not temporary; they will be saved.

$ ./pbot data_dir=mybot irc.botnick=coolbot irc.server=freenode.net irc.port=6667

Registry commands

regset

regset sets a new registry item or updates an existing item.

Usage: regset <section>.<item> <value>

To override the trigger for #mychannel to $:

<pragma-> !regset #mychannel.trigger $
   <PBot> #mychannel.trigger set to $

To override the trigger for #mychannel to be any of ,, ! or %, you can use a character class:

<pragma> !regset #mychannel.trigger [,!%]
  <PBot> #mychannel.trigger set to [,!%]

regunset

regunset removes a registry item from a specific section/channel.

Usage: regunset <section>.<item>

regchange

regchange changes the value of a registry item using a regular substitution expression.

Usage: regchange <section>.<item> s/<pattern>/<replacement>/

<pragma-> regset foo.bar Hello, world!
   <PBot> foo.bar set to Hello, world!

<pragma-> regchange foo.bar s/world/universe/
   <PBot> foo.bar set to Hello, universe!

regshow

regshow displays the type and value of a registry item.

Usage: regshow <section>.<item>

<pragma-> !regshow antiflood.chat_flood_punishment
   <PBot> antiflood.chat_flood_punishment: 60,300,3600,86400,604800,2419200 [array]

regfind

regfind searches for registry items, and may optionally show the values of all matching items.

Usage: regfind [-showvalues] [-section <section>] <regex>

To limit the search to a specific section, use -section <section>.

To dump the entire registry, use regfind -showvalues .*.

regsetmeta

regsetmeta sets the metadata values for a specific registry key. See registry metadata list.

If you omit the <key> argument, it will list all the defined keys and values for the registry item. If you specify <key> but omit <value>, it will show the value for that specific key.

Usage: regsetmeta <section>.<item> [key [value]]

For example, this directly sets the value metadata key of irc.botnick.

 <pragma-> !regsetmeta irc.botnick value candide
         * PBot changed nick to candide
 <candide> irc.botnick: 'value' set to 'candide'

That example is equivalent to regset irc.botnick candide.

regunsetmeta

regunset deletes a metadata key from a registry item.

Usage: regunset <section>.<item> <key>

Editing Registry file

You may edit the Registry file manually. It is located as $data_dir/registry. Its contents are plain-text JSON.

This is a sample entry:

"irc" : {
  "botnick" : {
     "type" : "text",
     "value" : "PBot"
  }
}

After editing an entry in the Registry file, you may reload it with the reload command.

<pragma-> !reload registry
   <PBot> Registry reloaded.

Metadata list

This is a list of recognized registry metadata keys.

Name	Description
type	Sets the type of the registry item; values can be text (literal) or array.
value	The value of the registry item.
private	Whether the value of the registry item is displayed in the regset, regshow or regfind commands. If set to a true value, the value of the registry key will be shown as <private>.

List of known Registry items

This is a list of recognized registry items at the time of this writing.

Name	Description	Default value
antiaway.bad_actions	If a message matches against this regex, it is considered an Away action.	^/me (is (away\|gone)\|.*auto.?away)
antiaway.bad_nicks	If someone changes their nick and the new nick matches this regex, it is considered an Away nick.	(^z+[[:punct:]]\| [[:punct:]](afk\|brb\|bbl\|away\|sleep\|asleep\|nap\| z+\|work\|gone\|study\|out\|home\|busy\|off) [[:punct:]]*$\|afk$)
antiaway.kick_msg	The message to use when kicking Away offenders.	http://sackheads.org/~bnaylor/spew/away_msgs.html
antiflood.chat_flood_punishment	The amount of time, in seconds, offenders will be muted/banned.	60,300,3600,86400,604800,2419200
antiflood.chat_flood_threshold	The number of messages before this is considered a flood.	4
antiflood.chat_flood_time_threshold	chat_flood_threshold number of messages within this amount of seconds will be considered a flood.	5
antiflood.debug_checkban	Print verbose debugging information about the checkban function.	0
antiflood.dont_enforce_admins	Do not enforce anti-flood detection against logged-in admins.	1
antiflood.enforce	If set to a true value, anti-flood will be enforced.	1
antiflood.enter_abuse_max_offenses		3
antiflood.enter_abuse_punishment		60,300,3600,86400,604800,2419200
antiflood.enter_abuse_threshold		4
antiflood.enter_abuse_time_threshold		15
antiflood.join_flood_punishment		115200,3600,10800,604800
antiflood.join_flood_threshold		4
antiflood.join_flood_time_threshold		1800
antiflood.nick_flood_punishment		1800,3600,86400,604800
antiflood.nick_flood_threshold		3
antiflood.nick_flood_time_threshold		1800
antikickautorejoin.punishment		300,900,1800,3600,28800
antikickautorejoin.threshold		4
bantracker.chanserv_ban_timeout		604800
bantracker.debug	Log verbose debugging information about the Ban Tracker.	0
bantracker.mute_timeout		604800
factoids.default_rate_limit	The default rate-limit to set when creating new factoids.	10
general.data_dir	Path to PBot data/ directory.
general.deop_timeout	Time-out, in seconds, before PBot deops itself after being opped.	300
general.module_dir	Path to PBot modules/ directory.
general.module_repo	URL to source code of PBot modules; used in factinfo	https://github.com/pragma-/pbot/tree/master/modules
general.paste_ratelimit	How often, in seconds, between pastes to web paste-sites.
general.show_url_titles_channels	A regular-expression or comma-separated list of channels that should display titles for URLs.	.*
general.show_url_titles	If set to a true value, PBot will show titles for URLs.	1
general.show_url_titles_ignore_channels	A regular-expression or comma-separated list of channels that will not display titles for URLs.
general.trigger	The trigger character(s) or text that will invoke PBot commands.	[!]
interpreter.max_recursion	The maximum number of recursions allowed before the command interpreter will abort.	100
irc.botnick	The IRC nickname of this PBot instance.
irc.debug	Log verbose debugging information about the IRC engine.	0
irc.identify_password	The password to identify to NickServ or other service bots.
irc.server	The IRC server network address to connect to.	irc.freenode.net
irc.log_default_handler	If set to a true value, any IRC events that are not explicitly handled by PBot will be dumped to the log.	1
irc.max_msg_len	The maximum length messages can be on this IRC server.	425
irc.port	The IRC server network port to connect to.	6667
irc.realname		https://github.com/pragma-/pbot
irc.show_motd	If set to a true value, the IRC server MOTD will be shown when connecting.	1
irc.SSL_ca_file	Path to a specific SSL certificate authority file.
irc.SSL_ca_path	Path to the SSL certificate authority directory containing certificate files.
irc.SSL	If set to a true value, SSL will be enabled when connecting to the IRC server.	0
irc.username		PBot
lagchecker.lag_history_interval	How often, in seconds, to send a PING to the IRC server.	10
lagchecker.lag_history_max	How many of the most recent PINGs to average.	3
lagchecker.lag_threshold	Duration, in milliseconds, of average lag before PBot thinks it is lagging too much to sensibly enforce anti-flood, etc.	2000
messagehistory.debug_aka	Log verbose debugging information about the aka command.	0
messagehistory.debug_link	Log verbose debugging information about account linking.	0
messagehistory.sqlite_commit_interval	How often to commit SQLite transactions to the database.
messagehistory.sqlite_debug	Log verbose debugging information about SQLite statements.	0
nicklist.debug	Log verbose debugging information about the NickList.	0

Channel-specific Registry items

All of above section-specific registry items can be overriden on a per-channel basis if it makes sense for it to be able to do so.

However, some items exist only as a channel-specific item. You must regset these for your channels. They are listed here.

Name	Description
[channel].dont_enforce_antiflood	Disables anti-flood enforcement for this channel.
[channel].max_newlines	The maximum number of lines to be sent before truncating to a paste site, if preserve_newlines is enabled.
[channel].no_url_titles	Disables display of URL titles for this channel.
[channel].preserve_newlines	If set to a true value, newlines will not be replaced with spaces in this channel. Each line of output will be sent as a distinct message.
[channel].ratelimit_override	Duration, in seconds, of the rate-limit for factoids in this channel. To disable factoid rate-limiting for a channel, you can set this to 0.