Send / Receive Files

[rlp10]

Would it be possible for NEB to send and receive files?

[kegsay]

How would this work?

[rlp10]

In terms of use cases, I can imagine giving a command to a bot which then creates and sends me a file (such as a PDF report). Or perhaps a bot that you send a jpg (or other image) and it converted it to PDF and sent it back - just an example.

On the technical side, I haven't a clue what I'm talking about. But that said, I can see, that there is a message type "m.file" in the API spec: http://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.2.0.html#m-file Presumably that means that it is possible to send messages which are files?

Being able to send real files would be one of the ways that a Matrix Bot could differentiate itself from an IRC bot.

[kegsay]

Hummm... Converters actually sounds really nice. Annoyingly though most matrix clients do not support sending metadata with files. This means there's no mechanism to tell neb which files to convert and to what format. I like the idea though.

[rlp10]

You could give the bot this information in a message. For example, you could send a file and then the bot could say: "What format do you want? Say 'convert pdf' to make it a PDF". You could then send a message confirming the format and the bot would send the file back to you.