[Feature] [Generic] Stateful responses?

[huang-jy]

Is it possible to have the bot "statefully" respond to rules, by which I mean interact several times with it and it remembers your previous answers?

For example:

bot> announce
which room did you want to announce to?
bot> general
announce to room #general, okay. What message?
bot> restarting bot in 5 minutes
announce "restarting bot in 5 minutes" to room #general, is that correct?
bot> yes
announce sent

I'm thinking using variables might work, but do they scope across rules?

[wass3r]

Unfortunately, there is nothing built-in currently. We had discussed a solution for this at some point. For now you could maybe pass the query to a script in a language of your choosing that's backed by a store/DB of some sort. We don't have examples for this :(

[huang-jy]

I guess there would be many ways to implement this. Shall I leave this open so you can flag as a feature request, or shall I close?

[wass3r]

We can leave it open as a feature request. Few things to consider for sure. Thanks for the submission.