If I initialize a property in robot.brain
in the body of my script's module.exports
, it doesn't work (see code below). If I initialize it during response, it works. Is my hypothesis that it gets overwritten by hubot-redis-brain correct? How do I fix it in a nice way?
module.exports = (robot) => {
robot.logger.debug("Setting the fucking property");
robot.brain.set("stringproperty", "stringvalue");
robot.logger.debug("SET!");
// logs these two entries before 'INFO hubot-redis-brain: Data for hubot brain retrieved from Redis'
const respondAndLog = (res, message) => {
robot.logger.debug("Responding: " + message);
res.reply(message);
};
robot.respond(/get_stringproperty/, (res) => {
respondAndLog(res, `${robot.brain.get("stringproperty")}`);
// prints null. WTF?
});
robot.respond(/get_laterinitializedproperty/, (res) => {
robot.brain.set("laterinitializedproperty", "laterinitializedvalue");
respondAndLog(res, `${robot.brain.get("laterinitializedproperty")}`);
// prints laterinitializedproperty, works OK
});
};
hubot-redis-brain
makes robot.brain
emit a "connected"
event when the data is loaded from redis or initialized, see [https://github.com/hubotio/hubot-redis-brain/blob/487dd4a9641f35ffb5ae18fb5e1b09e8114c4b70/src/redis-brain.js#L55](see lines 55 and 59). So this is how it should be fixed:
robot.brain.on("connected", () => {
robot.logger.debug("Setting the fucking property");
robot.brain.set("stringproperty", "stringvalue");
robot.logger.debug("SET!");
});