johnagan/serverless-slack-app

How do I locally test a bot?

jschuur opened this issue · 7 comments

jschuur commented

I know I can run something like serverless invoke local --function slack to locally invoke a handler function without needing to deploy everything every time. But how do I format my test data to trigger the right event and how do I see the output?

Serverless lets you pass in test data or the path to a JSON file with a full set of test data. I just don't know the format of the data to send in e.g. to simulate a slash command event that I want to test.

And if I can trigger it, how do I see the output?

geraldeersteling commented

Also wondering how to do this...

johnagan commented

There are numerous payloads Slack can send. Maybe check on https://api.slack.com/events to find a payload you want to emulate

geraldeersteling commented

Yeah, I think the easiest way is to copy some of those.

Another thing though with locally testing; I'm having trouble with the .ds_store files.
I can't seem to test locally anymore, invoking the command in terminal gives me an error that the parser can't handle .ds_store.
How could one fix this?

jacekelgda commented

There is an option to use two serverless plugins

plugins:
  - serverless-dynamodb-local
  - serverless-offline

( https://www.npmjs.com/package/serverless-dynamodb-local )

The thing is, serverless-dynamodb-local requires additional configuration of AWS.DynamoDB.DocumentClient which is instantiated in https://github.com/johnagan/serverless-slack/blob/master/src/dynamo.js#L4

I think I will create a PR for this. It should be possible to configure this object using at least env variables.

whobutsb commented

@jschuur Did you ever figure out what the syntax was to pass data to the function?

jschuur commented

@jschuur Did you ever figure out what the syntax was to pass data to the function?

Afraid not. Didn't really make much progress with that Slack bot.

kbiedrzycki commented

Maybe it is possible to configure it using https://github.com/localstack/localstack? It has support for lambda, api gateway and dynamodb. These is also a plugin for serverless framework to integrate with localstack https://github.com/localstack/serverless-localstack.