add support for sending commands to the server

[Ricardo Kirkner]

A method should be available in the API for sending commands to the server. Commands in irc start with /, but the 'say' method currently implemented cannot be used as it doesn't send the data in raw form to the server.

As a side-effect, by implementing a cmd method, lalita plugins could also issue /me commands making lalita behave more like a person.

[Facundo Batista (facundo)]

Didn't found how to send "raw actions" from irc.IRCClient to the server.

Ideas?

[Ricardo Kirkner (ricardokirkner)]

As far as I recall from my research at the time, this was not easy to implement. The only way to send commands to the server is to send the raw string directly. The /me command can be implemented specifically, but there is no simple way to implement generic command support, as each command has a different syntax and parsing.

Maybe we should just try to implement the /me command (which should have fairly good support), and forget about generic commands.

[Ricardo Kirkner (ricardokirkner)]

Now that we have a bot proxy available from within the plugin, most commands are accessible to the plugin (join, leave, say, kick, ban, ...) and this bug can be superseeded by the other.

[Ricardo Kirkner (ricardokirkner)]

Bug #593445 provides an equivalent solution to this issue.