Slack Integration for Broadway Grading

[bhuvy2]

It'd be nice to have an api endpoint where members of the admin team can trigger runs through slack. The slack facing api could be
/broadway grade <assign> [netid]. The slackbot should return that the run started.

I don't know if this should be the same issue, but it'd be cool if the bot eventually posted a message to the channel with that person's results (or maybe a different slack command like /broadway status <id>

[shreyas208]

Useful resources:

• https://api.slack.com/methods/users.profile.get
• https://api.slack.com/slash-commands#app_command_handling

We need to get the user's Slack UID from the incoming slash command payload and then use Slack Web API to get their email address.

[shreyas208]

Possible formats:

/broadway grade sp19-cs241 malloc "netid1, netid2, netid3" (must return run_id)
/broadway grade-all sp19-cs241 malloc
/broadway status <run_id>

[bhuvy2]

Should we have a commit-run (i.e. one that just runs a student and one that commits results?)

[shreyas208]

We could have a flag on grade and grade-all that flips between commit to student and don't commit to student? (If no commit, we need to find an alternate feedback mechanism. If/when feedback is coming back to on-demand, this will be resolved)

[bhuvy2]

I guess the question I was trying to ask is what is the main goal of the slack integration? Is it for us diagnostically or to generate one off runs for other cases.

[shreyas208]

You tell me :) It would be nice to have it for both purposes, which I think should be the goal for this feature.