Built-in decorators

Allowed users:

from mattermost_bot.utils import allowed_users
from mattermost_bot.bot import respond_to


@respond_to('^is-allowed$')
@allowed_users('admin', 'root')
def access_allowed(message):
    message.reply('Access is allowed')

Direct messages:

from mattermost_bot.utils import allow_only_direct_message
from mattermost_bot.bot import respond_to


@respond_to('^direct-msg$')
@allow_only_direct_message()
def direct_msg(message):
    message.reply('Message is direct')

Real case

For example we have some users on our chat. We want allow some functionality to some users. We can create constants with allowed users on bot settings:

ADMIN_USERS = ['admin', 'root']
SUPPORT_USERS = ['mike', 'nick']

So now we can close access to some functions on plugins:

from mattermost_bot.utils import allow_only_direct_message
from mattermost_bot.utils import allowed_users
from mattermost_bot.bot import respond_to
from mattermost_bot import settings


@respond_to('^selfupdate')
@allow_only_direct_message()
@allowed_users(*settings.ADMIN_USERS)
def self_update(message):
    # some code
    message.reply('Update was done')


@respond_to('^smsto (.*)')
@allowed_users(*settings.SUPPORT_USERS)
def sms_to(message, name):
    # some code
    message.reply('Sms was sent to %s' % name)