Merge pull request #56 from tmmsartor/unix-socket

Add option for unix-socket in config.yml

config.yaml

@@ -94,6 +94,15 @@
 
   ## Technical options ##
 
+  # Use a unix socket to communicate with telegram-cli
+  # Should match the path passed to telegram-cli with the -S option
+  #
+  # NB: Setting tg_sock to some not false value will cause the script
+  # to ignore the next options about TCP connection
+
+  # tg_sock: "/var/run/telegram.sock"
+  tg_sock: null
+
   # Address of the machine you are running telegram-cli on
   # If this is not localhost telegram-cli must be invoked with --accept-any-tcp
   tg_host: 'localhost'

telegram-history-dump.rb

@@ -22,9 +22,15 @@
 
 def connect_socket
   return if defined?($sock) && $sock
-  $log.info('Attaching to telegram-cli control socket at %s:%d' %
-              [$config['tg_host'], $config['tg_port']])
-  $sock = TCPSocket.open($config['tg_host'], $config['tg_port'])
+
+  if $config['tg_sock']
+    $log.info('Attaching to telegram-cli control socket at /var/run/telegram.sock')
+    $sock = UNIXSocket.new($config['tg_sock'])
+  else
+    $log.info('Attaching to telegram-cli control socket at %s:%d' %
+                [$config['tg_host'], $config['tg_port']])
+    $sock = TCPSocket.open($config['tg_host'], $config['tg_port'])
+  end
 end
 
 def disconnect_socket