Allow sending message by statusbot using common

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/modules/$common.js b/modules/$common.js
index 59b9a66..f7ec42a 100644
--- a/modules/$common.js
+++ b/modules/$common.js
@@ -4,13 +4,28 @@ var path=require("path"),
 var cwd=process.cwd();
 var globalAccounts=require(cwd+"/globalAccounts.json");
 
+var statusbotObject={
+	// calls cb with http status code
+	"send":function statusbotSend(sender,text,cb){
+		if(statusbotObject._handler==null){
+			console.log("[common.statusbot] No statusbot yet");
+			cb(500);
+			return;
+		}
+		statusbotObject._handler(sender,text,cb);
+	},
+	"_handler":null,  // to be set from the statusbot module
+};
+
 module.exports={
 	"serverdir":cwd,
 	"webfilesdir":cwd+"/web_files",
 	"persistdir":cwd+"/persist",
+
 	"simpleHTMLescape":function simpleHTMLescape(str){
 		return str.replace(/&/g,'&amp;').replace(/</g,'&lt;').replace(/>/g,'&gt;');
 	},
+
 	"authgen":function authgen(accounts){ //omit `accounts` to use the globalAccounts list
 		if(!accounts)accounts=globalAccounts;
 		return function (req,res,next){
@@ -32,4 +47,6 @@ module.exports={
 			return unauth(res);
 		};
 	},
+
+	"statusbot":statusbotObject,
 };