refactor: remove built-in slack backend (#1581)

* refactor: remove slack backend

* refactor: remove slack-rtm backend

* test: remove slack tests

* docs: remove slack and use slackv3

* chore: add slackv3 build to Dockerfile

* feat: enable backend plugins directory on --init

* chore: add slackv3 repo to backend image

* refactor: simplify the final image

* docs: fix slack refs in README

* docs: add info to CHANGES

CHANGES.rst

@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 v9.9.9 (unreleased)
 -------------------
 
+breaking:
+
+- backend/slack: remove slack and slack_rtm built-in backends (#1581)
+
 features:
 
 - core/plugins: detect plugins using entrypoints (#1590)

Dockerfile

@@ -1,23 +1,30 @@
-FROM python:3.9-slim as BUILD
+FROM python:3.9-slim as build
 WORKDIR /wheel
 COPY . .
-RUN apt update && apt install build-essential -y
+RUN apt update && apt install -y build-essential git
+RUN cd /tmp && \
+    git clone https://github.com/errbotio/err-backend-slackv3 slackv3
 RUN pip3 wheel --wheel-dir=/wheel . \
-    errbot errbot[irc] errbot[slack] errbot[XMPP] errbot[telegram]
+    -r /tmp/slackv3/requirements.txt wheel \
+    errbot errbot[irc] errbot[XMPP] errbot[telegram] && \
+    cp /tmp/slackv3/requirements.txt /wheel/slackv3-requirements.txt
 
-FROM python:3.9-slim
-COPY --from=BUILD /wheel /wheel
+FROM python:3.9-slim as base
+COPY --from=build /wheel /wheel
 RUN apt update && \
     apt install -y git && \
     cd /wheel && \
     pip3 -vv install --no-cache-dir --no-index --find-links /wheel . \
-    errbot errbot[irc] errbot[slack] errbot[XMPP] errbot[telegram] && \
+    -r /wheel/slackv3-requirements.txt \
+    errbot errbot[irc] errbot[XMPP] errbot[telegram] && \
     rm -rf /wheel /var/lib/apt/lists/*
-
 RUN useradd -m errbot
+
+FROM base
+EXPOSE 3141 3142
+VOLUME /home/errbot
 WORKDIR /home/errbot
 USER errbot
 RUN errbot --init
-EXPOSE 3141 3142
-VOLUME /home/errbot
+RUN git clone https://github.com/errbotio/err-backend-slackv3 backend-plugins/slackv3
 ENTRYPOINT [ "/usr/local/bin/errbot" ]

README.rst

@@ -43,15 +43,15 @@ Chat servers support
 **Built-in**
 
 - IRC support
-- `Slack support <https://slack.com/>`_
 - `Telegram support <https://www.telegram.org/>`_
 - `XMPP support <http://xmpp.org>`_
 
 **With add-ons**
 
-- `Webex <https://www.webex.com/>`_ (See `instructions <https://github.com/marksull/err-backend-cisco-webex-teams>`__)
-- `Discord <https://www.discordapp.com/>`_ (See `instructions <https://github.com/gbin/err-backend-discord>`__)
+- `Slack support <https://slack.com/>`_ (See `instructions <https://github.com/errbotio/err-backend-slackv3>`__)
+- `Discord <https://www.discordapp.com/>`_ (See `instructions <https://github.com/errbotio/err-backend-discord>`__)
 - `Gitter support <https://gitter.im/>`_ (See `instructions <https://github.com/errbotio/err-backend-gitter>`__)
+- `Webex <https://www.webex.com/>`_ (See `instructions <https://github.com/marksull/err-backend-cisco-webex-teams>`__)
 - `Mattermost <https://about.mattermost.com/>`_ (See `instructions <https://github.com/Vaelor/errbot-mattermost-backend>`__)
 - `RocketChat <https://rocket.chat/>`_ (See `instructions <https://github.com/cardoso/errbot-rocketchat>`__)
 - `Skype <https://www.skype.com/>`_ (See `instructions <https://github.com/errbotio/errbot-backend-skype>`__)
@@ -130,12 +130,12 @@ It will show you a prompt `>>>` so you can talk to your bot directly! Try `!help
 Adding support for a chat system
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-For the built-ins, just use one of those options `slack, telegram, IRC, XMPP` with pip, you can still do it
+For the built-ins, just use one of those options `telegram, IRC, XMPP` with pip, you can still do it
 after the initial installation to add the missing support for example ::
 
-   $ pip install "errbot[slack]"
+   $ pip install "errbot[irc]"
 
-For the external ones (Skype, Gitter, Discord etc ...), please follow their respective github pages for instructions.
+For the external ones (Slack, Discord, Gitter, Skype, etc ...), please follow their respective github pages for instructions.
 
 Configuration
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~

docs/requirements.txt

@@ -3,9 +3,8 @@ sphinx>=1.2
 sphinx-autodoc-annotation
 
 -e .
-slixmpp
-irc
-python-telegram-bot
-slackclient
 hypchat
+irc
 pytest
+python-telegram-bot
+slixmpp

docs/user_guide/configuration/slackv3.rst

@@ -17,12 +17,10 @@ You need to install Slackv3 dependencies before using Errbot with Slack.  In the
 it is assumed slackv3 has been download to the /opt/errbot/backends directory and errbot has been
 installed in a python virtual environment (adjust the command to your errbot's installation)::
 
-.. code::
-
+    git clone https://github.com/errbotio/err-backend-slackv3.git
     source /opt/errbot/bin/activate
     /opt/errbot/bin/pip install -r /opt/errbot/backends/err-backend-slackv3/requirements.txt
 
-
 Connection Methods
 ------------------
 
@@ -87,7 +85,7 @@ The virtual environment is created in `/opt/errbot/virtualenv` and errbot initia
     git clone https://github.com/errbotio/err-backend-slackv3
     pip install -r /opt/errbot/backend/err-backend-slackv3/requirements.txt
 
-5. Configure the slack bot token, signing secret (Events API with Request URLs) and/or app token (Events API with Socket-mode).  Located in ``/opt/errbot/config.py``
+5. Configure the slack bot token, signing secret (Events API with Request URLs) and/or app token (Events API with Socket-mode).  Located in `/opt/errbot/config.py`
 
 .. code::
 
@@ -97,6 +95,7 @@ The virtual environment is created in `/opt/errbot/virtualenv` and errbot initia
         'app_token': "xapp-..."
     }
 
+
 Setting up Slack application
 ----------------------------
 

docs/user_guide/setup.rst

@@ -108,7 +108,6 @@ You can find here more details about configuring Errbot for some specific chat s
   configuration/gitter
   configuration/irc
   configuration/mattermost
-  configuration/slack
   configuration/slackv3
   configuration/telegram
   configuration/xmpp