MOBOT

MOBOT is a Telegram chat framework written in Rust. It comes with a fully native implementation of the Telegram Bot API.

Features

• Raw Telegram API with support for Messages, Channels, Stickers, Callbacks, and more.
• Web framework style Routing API with support for message-based routing and nested handler stacks.
• Easy application state management. MOBOT makes sure your handler gets the right state for each chat.
• Integrated test infrastructure (FakeBot), to simplify writing unit tests for your bots.
• Support for progress bars, inline keyboards, "Typing..." indicators, etc. See demo video below.

Demo and Examples

This is a demo of a devops bot built with the MOBOT framework.

https://github.com/0xfe/mobot/assets/241299/22b3c420-6acd-43f9-81f8-eb957ff24288

Other bots built with MOBOT

• WordleBot - A Wordle Telegram Bot
• <_Add Your's Here_>

Hello World!

Add mobot to your Cargo.toml.

cargo add mobot

Example Bot that replies with "Hello world!" to every message. Working example in src/bin/hello.rs.

use mobot::*;

#[tokio::main]
async fn main() {
    let client = Client::new(std::env::var("TELEGRAM_TOKEN").unwrap().into());
    let mut router = Router::<()>::new(client);

    router.add_route(Route::Default, |_, _| async move {
        Ok(Action::ReplyText("Hello world!".into()))
    });
    router.start().await;
}

Documentation

See full API documentation at https://docs.rs/mobot.

See examples in src/bin.

Testing

MOBOT is packaged with fake::FakeAPI, a library to simplify unit testing your bots. FakeAPI can be plugged into mobot::Client using the with_post_handler hook. See example below from router_test.rs.

async fn it_works() {
    mobot::init_logger();

    // Create a FakeAPI and attach it to the client. Any Telegram requests are now forwarded
    // to `fakeserver` instead.
    let fakeserver = fake::FakeAPI::new();
    let client = Client::new("token".to_string().into()).with_post_handler(fakeserver.clone());

    // Keep the Telegram poll timeout short for testing. The default Telegram poll timeout is 60s.
    let mut router = Router::new(client).with_poll_timeout_s(1);

    // Since we're passing ownership of the Router to a background task, grab the
    // shutdown channels so we can shut it down from this task.
    let (shutdown_notifier, shutdown_tx) = router.shutdown();

    // Our bot is a ping bot. Add the handler to the router (see bin/ping.rs).
    router.add_route(Route::Default, handle_chat_event);

    // Start the router in a background task.
    tokio::spawn(async move {
        info!("Starting router...");
        router.start().await;
    });

    // We're in the foreground. Create a new chat session with the bot, providing your
    // username. This shows up in the `from` field of messages.
    let chat = fakeserver.create_chat("qubyte").await;

    // Send the message "ping1", expect the response "pong(1): ping1"
    chat.send_text("ping1").await.unwrap();
    assert_eq!(
        chat.recv_update().await.unwrap().to_string(),
        "pong(1): ping1"
    );

    // Send the message "ping2", expect the response "pong(2): ping2"
    chat.send_text("ping2").await.unwrap();
    assert_eq!(
        chat.recv_update().await.unwrap().to_string(),
        "pong(2): ping2"
    );

    // Optional: validate there's no more messages from the bot, by waiting two seconds
    // for more messages.
    assert!(
        tokio::time::timeout(Duration::from_millis(2000), chat.recv_update())
            .await
            .is_err()
    );

    // All done shutdown the router, and wait for it to complete.
    info!("Shutting down...");
    shutdown_tx.send(()).await.unwrap();
    shutdown_notifier.notified().await;
}

Extending MOBOT

Adding new Telegram API calls

Adding support for additional APIs is straightforward. It involves creating structs for the request and response in lib/api, and adding a method to API.

For example, to add support for the sendSticker Telegram API:

Create the SendStickerRequest struct

Make sure to derive the BotRequest trait to the request.

#[derive(Debug, Serialize, Clone, BotRequest)]
pub struct SendStickerRequest {
    /// Unique identifier for the target chat or username of the target
    pub chat_id: i64,

    /// Sticker to send. Pass a file_id as String to send a file that
    pub sticker: String,

    /// Sends the message silently. Users will receive a notification with
    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
    pub disable_notification: Option<bool>,

    /// If the message is a reply, ID of the original message
    #[serde(skip_serializing_if = "Option::is_none")]
    pub reply_to_message_id: Option<i64>,
}

Add the send_sticker method call to API

impl API {
    pub async fn send_sticker(&self, req: &SendStickerRequest) -> anyhow::Result<Message> {
        self.client.post("sendSticker", req).await
    }
}

Test and send me a Pull Request

• Add a test in tests/. If necessary update lib/fake.rs for client testing.
• Add example code to src/bin/.
• Commit and send me a PR!

Cutting releases

Install Cargo Release - crate install cargo-release.

Run:

cargo update
cargo test
cargo doc
git commit -a -m '...'

# Cut release
cargo release --execute patch

External Dependencies

This crate requires OpenSSL and pkg-config:

• On Linux: sudo apt-get install pkg-config libssl-dev
• On Mac: nothing to do!

TODO

• Default logging handler
• Default auth handler
• Dialoge/script framework
• Garbage Collect old sessions

License

MIT License Copyright 2023 Mohit Muthanna Cheppudira

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